It's up to 41! More as it develops....
Things I've learned from tutoring algebra/geometry:
1) All those times teachers told me that if I just had confidence in myself I'd do better? They were completely right, even if it didn't feel like it from where I was sitting. These kids are definitely bright enough for the work, but a lot of them seem to think they can't do it.
2) Even if it's been literally decades since I took algebra et al, I can still figure out a lot of the problems, even if a student has to remind me that wide angles are called obtuse and small angles are acute.
3) Talking your way through figuring out a problem is too a valid tutoring strategy, particularly when it helps illuminate the "show your work" process that gets counted towards a student's score.
4) So is talking about your answering strategy, because some questions aren't about an exact answer, but a "closest" answer, where what you're doing is eliminating all the wrong answers.
5) Being called "Miss" is strange. Of course the class I'm helping out in is one where the students are there voluntarily, because they failed last year's MCAS and need to retake so they can graduate (and most of them are ESL), so they're actually pretty motivated, and very polite.
Listening to CarTalk this morning, what did me in was how sad Ray sounded.
Oh, dear. I'd best not listen to that while I'm driving.
oh sarameg, how sad! I'm not sure I can deal with it.
Teppy, were you aware there are now GLUTEN FREE candy cane JoJos?
No way! I, uh, kind of hate mint stuff, so I'll probably skip them, but that's excellent!
They had a hard pumpkin cider that I tried and it made me think of you, Steph. It also made me think of the pumpkin juice they drink in Harry Potter and that hard pumpkin cider would be just the thing to order at the Three Broomsticks.
Listening to CarTalk this morning, what did me in was how sad Ray sounded.
DH was barely holding it together listening while he worked in the garage this morning. He was super choked up. He was reading me a bunch of stuff on line when the news first came out and he kept losing it too. He was a super big fan. I got him a Car Talk towel in one of the fund raisers a while back.
Ended up having to take #1 son to the ER yesterday. First I took him to a walk-in clinic and the doctor there said he had to go to the ER. So off we went. 3 doctors looked at him there (well 1 head guy, 1 resident, 1 student). The resident
lanced his lip 3 places
but got no great results, so the head guy was brought in again. He had no more luck. They gave him a script for anti-biotics ($83!!!), and told him to swish with peroxide a bunch. Then they put a bandaid on the inside of his swollen lip! That lasted 2 minutes.
He is not a good patient and he wears me out. But he is off to the girlfriends again. He said he was coming to the office to help me, but we are here 5 minutes and I have to get him food, then back another 10 minutes and his ride shows up to take him to GF's house. The office is 20 miles closer to her house than home so going with me was obviously a ruse to get closer.
Short version: parenting sucks.
Mid-60s and sunny here in Utah. We lose 15 degrees tomorrow, with highs in the 50s to look forward to for the next couple of weeks. Time to stop kidding myself about winter, but gosh, this is near perfect weather for me.
Sitting in the walk-in clinic. If I'd remembered my co-pay was $50 I probably wouldn't have come...
