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On Teaching Students to Solve Algebraic Expressions Using a Star Wars Analogy
Growing up I wasn’t very good at math. It’s a cliche for sure, and many of us say it, but for me it was oh so true. Imagine, then, how I felt when I found out that my first full year of teaching required me to teach a Grade 8 math class. And not just any old Grade 8 math class, oh no, it happened to be the “smart class”, where every child seemed to be uber-brilliant and years beyond thier grade level.
There were countless sleepless nights in the week before classes started after the summer break. I was quite nervous about teaching something both new and that I wasn’t ever really good at.
To be continued…
