That is the most wonderful success story. Never tiring of hearing people succeed. Good for you, and good for your school!
What I mostly remember about my time in the program was that I was terrified of exams (couldn’t take the math PhD exam after taking all the classes years later) and got them to give me a thesis instead. Added two years to graduating. Took the reduction languages of John Backus, who invented FORTRAN, and developed a curriculum to teach it. Variable free. Had the interesting property that you COULD teach it up to 6th grade. After that, you needed a masters degree to understand. As a graduation/birthday present, dear husband gave me a compiler for the language.
Cool beans!! I am def no mathematics whiz, but I love teaching up through 7th-grade standards and a few 8th-grade standards. Mostly, my focus is integers, ratios and proportions, linear equations, basic geometry, and probability. And, I am a stickler for basic graphing/interpreting graphed data. Although I’m also supposed to teach statistics, I usually run out of time. However, I scaffold to make sure students have assignments involving measures of central tendency, range, and outliers of a data set. (Two pet peeves: the “big number” does not always go inside the long-division house; the understood 1 coefficient is NOT imaginary!!)
ThanQ for the non-Q communication. Still awaiting the next post...
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