Monthly SimLit Short Story Challenge

"divanthesimmer;c-17057880" wrote:

"katrinasforest;c-17057861" wrote:

I love math! I'm a teacher as well, though I just substitute, and I love when I get opportunities to make math less scary-looking for kids who dislike it. One of my favorite lessons was when I had the kids make their own board games (we were talking about "fair" games of equal probability), and I handed out different dice to each player in the group. Some dice had four sides, others had six, others twelve, and others twenty. The kids had a blast and a good laugh when they realized just how quickly the game got out of control when the odds were so far in one player's favor.

This would have been a lot more fun! Instead, we worked out of handbooks and had to try understand what the teacher did on the blackboard.

Yeah, I did a lot of those sorts of lessons, too. Because I was a newbie and worried about rocking the boat too much. If I had it to do all over again, I'd have thrown the standardized testing reviews out the window--the kids were so sick of them! Heck, I was so sick of them.

But I'm glad I got the chance to make at least a few lessons a little more fun. :)