{"id":5188,"date":"2018-08-20T22:54:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T04:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:54:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T04:54:47","slug":"sometimes-it-works-sometimes-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/08\/20\/sometimes-it-works-sometimes-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes it Works, Sometimes Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to get them talking to each other about math today. Just some light conversation about what kinds of <em>gotchas<\/em> they thought might trip them up. I had talked about some of the <em>gotchas<\/em>&#8230; dropped negative signs, missed terms, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Talk to your shoulder partner,&rdquo; I said. &ldquo;Share what <em>gotchas<\/em> you think you might have to watch out for when you are doing the math.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes that kind of thing works. When it does, it&rsquo;s amazing to hear the mathematical banter rising in the room.&nbsp;And then sometimes it doesn&#8217;t work so well &mdash; the kids look back in silence.<\/p>\n<p>I started the day with the former. Sadly, my day went out on the latter. Oh well. It&rsquo;s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to get them talking to each other about math today. Just some light conversation about what kinds of gotchas they thought might trip them up. I had talked about some of the gotchas&#8230; dropped negative signs, missed terms, that sort of thing. &ldquo;Talk to your shoulder partner,&rdquo; I said. &ldquo;Share what gotchas you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}