I Thought They Were Getting It

After thinking about yesterday's lesson a bit more I thought most of them were catching on.  So, today we reviewed some more, I read the humorous picture book entitled "Pigs on a Blanket" (which should be underlined, but I cannot figure out how), and then we worked on more elapsed time.  I intended for students to do it with their shoulder partner, but I heard way too many "I don't get this" so I instead did the problems with them.  Today we walked away from the visible number line and had to draw our own.  

Not sure if that was a good thing--that left both me and the students feeling frustrated again.  Some were just writing any old thing down without thinking it through so that it looked like a number line, but without the numbers.  They were being extremely lazy thinkers.  They did not want to do the math;  I kept repeating "Show me the math!"  So we carried on as I walked them step by step through each problem.  Tomorrow we will take a quiz to see who truly is or is not getting it.

I do want to give some kudos to a few students who really were paying attention and trying their best: Tyrik L., Jessica M., and Kiran G.  Keep up the hard work; it will pay off in the end! Tyrik, I am especially proud of you because I have seen such an improvement in your attitude about learning math.

I leave you with the following:

I left school today to go to my ABIT meeting at 11:30.  I arrived at the UNO center in Metairie at 12:10.  How long did it take me to get there?