A friend of mine taught remedial math at UW to incoming freshmen. She would write:
x + 2 = 5
on the blackboard and ask a student "what is the value of x?" The student would see the x, and immediately respond with x means algebra, algebra is hard, I cannot do algebra.
So she started writing:
_ + 2 = 5
and ask the student to fill in the blank. "Oh, it's 3!"
A friend of mine taught remedial math at UW to incoming freshmen. She would write:
on the blackboard and ask a student "what is the value of x?" The student would see the x, and immediately respond with x means algebra, algebra is hard, I cannot do algebra.So she started writing:
and ask the student to fill in the blank. "Oh, it's 3!"