once again, tuesday night ladies are my favorite.
today I taught them how to use a standard ruler, which I didn’t know they didn’t understand, but now it totally makes sense to me why they were confused about general measurement work. so once I got that they’d never really learned what’s going on with a ruler, we went back to the very beginning and broke it down, working for an hour on understanding what all the tick marks mean and how to use the ruler to measure stuff. it was productive. one of my ladies had come in totally frustrated, confused, and defeated because she’d tried to work on the problems at home and not gotten anywhere. I felt good, cause at the end of the hour she was answering questions correctly and said she understood what was going on (and she always is comfortable enough to tell me when she doesn’t understand). she was feeling more positive and ready to go because she accomplished something in our session tonight. she learned how to use a ruler!
as she was leaving tonight she stopped and said “I just want to say thank you, I really appreciate you.”
This is so great, really this is why people like teaching.
And did you notice that your recent blog challenge has really measured how none of your friends and fam can get things together, whereas Pham’s are able to motivate? Once again the test does not actually measure what it purports to.