Tuesday, May 18, 2004
See!
As a mathematics teacher, I am struck by the pride people proclaim their deficiencies with math.
It had puzzled me for years until one day, a student who had been telling me the entire semester how they never could understand algebraic concepts, looked me in the eye and said "Trust me, I'm right, I don't understand Math!"
A light switch went off in my brain as a realized that this students was trying not to understand what I was talking about. They wanted to be right about their lack of understanding.
This is one of the battles I fight everyday. Looking out in my classroom to eyes who have answered my questions before I have asked them.
It had puzzled me for years until one day, a student who had been telling me the entire semester how they never could understand algebraic concepts, looked me in the eye and said "Trust me, I'm right, I don't understand Math!"
A light switch went off in my brain as a realized that this students was trying not to understand what I was talking about. They wanted to be right about their lack of understanding.
This is one of the battles I fight everyday. Looking out in my classroom to eyes who have answered my questions before I have asked them.
