Blackboard Notes

While I had quite an experience getting to get the students at Martin County West to see math in terms of problem solving, and not routine exercises, I will not be returning. My season there is done, and I can only hope students gained a better understanding, and that he mission God sent me there was completed. (Maybe more for the struggling students than the “good” ones?)  It seems my method of productive struggle was not well received. This is understandable if they have been hand-fed from elementary on up. It’s not their fault, nor is it necessarily the teachers’ who had them previously. This is an industry standard which companies look for in potential employees. I can attest to this given my years of experience in (and leading in) the manufacturing and farming industries. Therefore when I implemented it in terms of games and intuition, it was initially accepted; however, when I threw in Algebra vocabulary, they acted like it was completely different! (It doesn’t help if the ado