For the past few nights, I've been having trouble falling asleep due to all these math scenarios that my students are having problems with. Since its almost exam time, some of the students have been coming to see me more often than before, and we are going over some of the concepts they are having difficulty with. I think that quadratic equations are giving all my students the heebie geebies, since they get all nervous about them. I'm trying really hard to get them to visualize the ball that is being thrown/kicked, because that right there follows the path of a parabola. They seem to just want to know how to do the question though... (Just tell me how to do this question!!!) and I'm saying to them...visualize it! If your looking for the time when the ball hits the ground, thing about what the height will be at that point!
Anyways...everynight for the past week now I've been rethinking of our tutoring sessions and wondering if I was able to help them...wondering if I could come up with a better analogy or strategy that will help them through it.
I think that I'm more worried about them and their exams than they are.......
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