We had gone thru a page or two of notes. The usual routine: daily topic at the top, underlined with a straight, black line; objectives next, with the word “objectives” underlined with a squiggly line; same with “vocabulary” next. And so on. To the more observant of the kids, there’s a pattern to these notes. Of course, this is not an accident. <\/p>\n
Brianna (not her real name) is an observant kid. She notices patterns. And shapes. And colors. I suppose that she depends on them as beacons of familiarity in the daily stream of new math.<\/p>\n
“Mr. Hasan,” Brianna said, “you forgot to underline Example 1 with a squiggly line.”<\/p>\n
I looked at my notes. Indeed I had forgotten the usual squiggly line. I looked back at her with wide eyes.<\/p>\n
“You’re right,” I said. And I picked up a blue pen and added the squiggly lines. <\/p>\n
“Nooooo,” she wailed in mock pain. You see, I never underline in blue. Always in black. She knows this. And I knew she knows.<\/p>\n
I handed the page to her (because we were about to move to a new page, and she had asked for the page so that she could copy down the last few lines, complete with the correct colors — meticulousness has its costs).<\/p>\n
And so class continued. But there’s this…<\/p>\n
When the bell rang and she handed that page back, I noticed that my blue squiggly line under Example 1 had been squiggled over — in black<\/strong>. The had fixed my color aberration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had gone thru a page or two of notes. The usual routine: daily topic at the top, underlined with a straight, black line; objectives next, with the word “objectives” underlined with a squiggly line; same with “vocabulary” next. And so on. To the more observant of the kids, there’s a pattern to these notes. […]<\/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\/5538"}],"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=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}