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This week's Student of the Week HAS to be one of the members of the Vancouver Championship Basketball Team. Kudos to them all, but let's go with Kyle G!! I am expecting that Nikan will have a great photo to share.
Of course, Kyle is a great basketball player. And I know that he has put in a LOT of work to get that way. I've been so impressed with how hard he has also worked in Math class (especially this year) despite all his time being taken up with basketball. Truly impressive. Kyle is a quiet, unassuming guy... at least in class. I've always wondered: what is Kyle like outside of school? Maybe he's a total extrovert, totally talkative, a jokester? He's a bit of a mystery man that way. Nothing wrong with the way he is in class but I've long suspected there is another side to Kyle that I've never seen. In fact, my suspicions have proven to be accurate. There IS another side to Kyle. I found out recently that Kyle has one of the lead roles in the upcoming KG school play. When I found out I was like "?!?!?!?!?!?!?!". I had NO idea Kyle acted. It's so awesome!! (I love Drama / acting too). I am seriously looking forward to seeing Kyle on stage in May. I'm really happy that your hard work paid off (again!) with your basketball this year, Kyle. Thanks for always being such a soft-spoken, well-natured, polite student. I don't believe I ever had to say a word of warning of you in the three years I taught year (in terms of your behaviour) and I can't imagine that any other teacher ever had to either. Truly one of the easiest students I've taught at King George! All the best to you, Kyle! "First, let's take a look at two statistics:
We know that we’re more inclined to perform something well if we actually enjoy whatever it is. But few things in life are as polarizing as math. There’s good news for people who think they suck at math. A team of German researchers studying real-life students — nothing in a laboratory setting — found something else: When it came to math, students who were intelligent did well and students who enjoyed it did even better.
By the same token, the students with the lowest math achievement were those who were not necessarily the least intelligent, but those who had become the most demoralized at the prospect of math itself — experiencing anxiety, anger, boredom, or hopelessness. The research was conducted as part of the Project for the Analysis of Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and published Wednesday in Child Development. Mathematical genius is misunderstood. The term “genius” evokes feelings of envy. It paints a picture of a pre-determined minority of people who have truly mastered a discipline. A chosen few.
Yet there is nothing pre-determined about it. Mathematical genius resides within every one of us. Most people just don’t know it yet. That’s because genius is fragile. If you don’t embrace genius and tend to it with care, it will slip away, leaving behind just a subdued vision of the mathematicians we could have become. If you take even a cursory look through the annals of mathematics, you’ll see the fragile and often fickle nature of genius. Many of the legends of the field — whose talents and achievements are beyond dispute — could so easily have been forgotten by history. Their stories should act as a warning sign to educators today. Just a couple of questions: Why is the coach on the left so upset? What is Habibian doing out there?? And is that Toji?
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