Word problems. You remember them. I know you do. You remember hating them. I know you did. Certainly my students do. They don’t even try to disguise their groans when I assign a few.<\/p>\n
On this day, I had them write their own. That was the assignment. Not to solve a word problem. But to take a sample of mine and write a different word problem based on it. Radioactive decay. Bacterial cell growth. “1, 2, 3, go!” I said, and the rest of the period was theirs.<\/p>\n
I don’t think they knew quite what to think. But… there were no groans. <\/p>\n
He came up after they’d been at it for a while. He came up to me, looked me in the face with a broad smile on his and said, “I’m having fun writing word problems!” <\/p>\n
He clapped his hands three times.<\/p>\n
And with that smile still on his face, he turned around and went back to his desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. Word problems. You remember them. I know you do. You remember hating them. I know you did. Certainly my students do. They don’t even try to disguise their groans when I assign a few. On this day, I had them write their own. That was the assignment. Not to solve a word problem. But […]<\/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\/5631"}],"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=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}