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Hey, I gave an interview!If nothing else, I knew Cecil would want to see it.
posted by Thurman8er @ 5:01 PM
Monday, April 03, 2006
If nothing else, I knew Cecil would want to see it.
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5 Comments:
It's so nice to know that there are still some wonderful math teachers around that care enough to go the distance with students. I too often wondered how math would ever relate to anything I did when I grew up...I was fortunate I had a great Math Teacher
I laughed, I cried, it touched me. It was better than "Cats". I'll read it again and again...
Seriously, that was a great article. You rock. My first brush with Algebra scarred me for life - I wish you were my teacher. I finally, finally lost my fear of all things math in a teacher ed class, where we did most of our work in base 8, as it was just as foreign to us as base 10 for our students. I now love word problems. Like my prof., it's obvious you make math fun, interesting, and applicable.
That was great. Congrats!
That was the best math article I've ever read. Did you really say all of those smart things?
And the T-ball pictures were very, very good.
Steve - You are my hero! That was a great interview. I want your autograph. Maybe I can get it this summer when we swing out to SoCal.
BTW - you are so right about math becoming easier to use with students when they see the real world application. It kind of reminds me when I took a group of students from our school to see the play, "The Diary of Ann Frank." There is a scene that occurs just after the Frank Family goes into hiding with the Van Pel family. Peter, the son of the Van Pel’s, asks Mr. Frank for help with his Algebra. When my students heard that question they simultaneously asked, “Mr. Walker, they had “Algebra” back then?” I answered, “Yes and they had problems with it back then as well.”
OK! OK! you've made me "fess" up, I am one of those kids, well, my memory still says I was, that never quite "got it". As so many other kids in my time, we just couldn't do numbers with letters. I am just so glad that we did not do then what our kids do now, and at such an early age too, other wise I would still be back in first grade somewhere wondering where my pie (pi) is. Thanks Steve, I hope my two grand-children are blessed enough to recieve a math teacher like you when they get to the "pi" time. 8 and 5, are they there yet? The oldest knows not to ask Nana anything pertaining to anything because as he told me one day, "Nana, your dealing with short term memory loss aren't ya!?" I guess that says it all....
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