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I started life as a normal, happy kid. Over the course of many years
and many bad experiences, I was
mutated into a shaking, twitching and sweating
mathphobe who avoided math at all costs.
Through a wild turn of events, I
ended up loving math and becoming a college
math teacher.
As a teacher, I started out pretty traditionally… I always worked
really
hard and explained things well. My goal was
to have my students succeed,
but something was missing. Only 35-45% of my
students passed. The rest
either dropped or failed. Really pathetic… and
definitely NOT the way it
should be! Unfortunately, that’s the average
pass rate for most community
college Algebra classes. But, just because
something is “the norm” doesn’t
make it right. I wanted to do better than that
– a lot better!
I realized that something had to change. Something had to be
different.
It just wasn’t right that so many students
weren’t getting this stuff! I tried
everything I could think of to change the
students – to get them to study
harder, to get them to do their homework, to
get them to do something…
ANYTHING!
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