Sandra Callis Bethell Holt High School T eaching a mathematics class in which few of the students have demonstrated success is a difficult assignment.
Many teachers avoid such assignments, when possible.
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell as in its nature home, and where one, at least, of our nobler impulses can escape from the dreary exile of the natural world. But, on the other hand, students may not have the luxury, in their circumstances, of appreciating this beauty. I won nothing, I survey nothing, when I ask this question, the luxury of an answer that will fill volumes does not stretch out before me. When I ask this question, my voice is filled with despair. Algebra I class for 10th through 12th grade students.