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Sep. 4th, 2017 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
underusedC is sitting in the kitchen doing the last bit of prep for tomorrow. It's the first day of school.
As I walked into the room I heard him chuckling. I asked what was so funny. He said the math problems in his books were "too boring," he was rewriting them to make them more interesting.
This fall, the kids' first math problem will start like this:
Tilly Threefeet has 20 dollars in the bank. She has to buy fish muffins for her octopus.
I asked him why 'Tilly Threefeet' and he replied without pause: "She has three feet. It's why she feels a bond with the octopus." He didn't say "duh," but the duh was implied.
He's a good teacher.
As I walked into the room I heard him chuckling. I asked what was so funny. He said the math problems in his books were "too boring," he was rewriting them to make them more interesting.
This fall, the kids' first math problem will start like this:
Tilly Threefeet has 20 dollars in the bank. She has to buy fish muffins for her octopus.
I asked him why 'Tilly Threefeet' and he replied without pause: "She has three feet. It's why she feels a bond with the octopus." He didn't say "duh," but the duh was implied.
He's a good teacher.
