The Student of the Week is back! The Student of the Week is back!
In all honesty, I had decided that the entire Blog was done. Finished. Kaput! Shocking to all of you, but I got the distinct impression there was only about 5 people in total who read it each week (thanks Jordan! Thanks Ms Sidhu! Thanks Des! Thanks Ryan!) Anyway, I only ever do Student of the Week for grade 12's (except for a few people who swindled me over the years: Maya! Kat G!) and, for the first time all year, I am teaching grade 12's. And there are some incredibly wonderful students in my Calculus 12 class, including a good number who I taught numerous times over the past five years. So I need / want to revive the Blog for the sole purpose of making this group of students Student of the Week (individually). At the end of this year, the blog will truly end, at least for a good long while. As many of you know, I will be leaving King George at the end of the year. For sure until Christmas time and perhaps (probably?!) forever. It's time to try working in my actual community (Sunshine Coast) and (despite how much I LOVE KG) not commuting for 2 hours to get to work. I started the blog almost nine years ago! And the first Student of the Week was Moe G in September of 2013. That's a long time ago. And that's a LOT of students who I have written nice things about. But it's been easy. King George kids are such a diverse, engaging, enthusiastic, and special group of people. It makes me very, very sad to leave but I am so thankful for all the amazing students I have gotten to teach and to get to know during my time at King George.... including the wonderful person below. This week's Student of the Week is Joey H (I am very hopeful that ALL the Students of the Week will send me photos of themselves that I can include here. It's so much more satisfying when I look back at / re-read them in the years ahead...)
There are VERY few students that I remember from their grade 7 visits to King George. Do YOU even remember coming to my classroom that year? I probably made a few awful jokes and acted pretty goofy (just like I did when you were actually IN my class). But I remember grade 7 Joey VERY clearly. I can even remember where she SAT during that grade 7 visit (pretty well exactly where she sits in Calculus this year!!). I did the usual welcome to the grade 7's and then I decided to give them some sort of logic puzzle. It was a type of puzzle I had given my grade 8, 9 and 10 classes previously in the year and there were varying levels of difficulty on the page (started easy and then got progressively harder). Very few of my students (particularly in grade 8 and 9) got the hardest puzzles and - perhaps not surprisingly - not many grade 7s got ANY of the puzzles answered. But one bright-eyed, personable girl (JOEY!) got the very HARDEST puzzle. And she solved it FAST (you guys got whipped from class to class on those visits). I was SOOOOO impressed. I actually stuck her solution on the board and referred to her as "Joey the Genius grade 7" to all my classes (I believe they all thought I was weird). I was legitimately hoping that Joey would be in my grade 8 class and.... she wasn't. :( DISAPPOINTING!! But then something wonderful happened! Joey moved to PreCalculus 10 the following year (who needs Math 9?!) and I have had the true pleasure of teaching her Math in all of the past four years! And despite my sky-high expectations, Joey STILL managed to surpass them all. As I deduced from her grade 7 visit, she is an extremely intelligent, focused, determined student. But she is also a fantastic person. Joey is always so cheerful, so friendly, so warm-hearted. What a wonderful person to be around! When I help Joey with her Math, she thanks me... EVERY single time. When she arrives to class, she greets me happily... EVERY single time. When I chat with her about non-Math stuff, she never seems impatient, uncomfortable, or bored. Thank you Joey for being such a memorable student. I admire you so much for your generosity, your sense of humour, and your laid-back nature (plus your incredible start-of-class-puzzle skills!!). I KNOW that great things await you in the future (and you deserve them all!). May you never lose your sunny disposition and your warm smile. Love you, Joey! A bride dumped her groom after he failed to recite the multiplication table of two during their wedding ceremony in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.
The bride gave the groom the quick math test as she was suspicious of his educational background. Before they could officially tie the knot, the bride walked out of the wedding venue saying that she could not marry someone who did not know basic math, according to the report. California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.
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