Classroom Observations...

This week, during my 7th grade class observation, the teacher finally put me to work. After helping out by grading some quizzes and a chapter test, I helped out in the students while the class worked on a 'cut and paste' project. They were tasked with cutting out 24 squares with fractions on them and aligning these squares on a new sheet in order, where each fraction lined up with a matching fraction. I tried to use the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle (finding the corners, then the edges, etc.) but I was very surprised to learn that there was not a single student I talked to that had ever worked a puzzle. I felt so old.