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Every teacher has tics. I donât mean facial twitches (though a few rowdy, beloved classes have driven me there). I mean teaching tics: instincts, fallbacks, go-to-moves. The habitual ways that we frame questions, or receive answers, or structure lessons. Iâm now going to recount one of my ticsâone that crops up, for better or worse, in every grade, on every topic, in rain or in sun or in humidity so damnable that my sweat is sweating.
The tic of âgive me.â
Give me six different triangles whose area is 10 cm2. Give me a pair of functions so that f(g(x)) is always bigger than g(f(x)). Give me five data points so the mean, median, and mode are all different. Give me, give me, give meâŚ
Am I selfish, asking for so much? Am I self
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