You’re supposed to be thinking about math
May 29th, 2007 by screenwriterguy
 I’m not fond of some of the labels and diagnoses that psychologists use with children, but it’s fair to say that one of the students I tutor has a… disorder, which causes him to have a… deficit… of… attention. There, I think that was subtle enough. Anyway, I find that a large part of my job involves repeating, “Do your math!” while he looks for any and every reason to do anything and everything else.
One of his favorite techniques is to ask me questions, hoping that it will cause a distracting, non-mathematical side conversation. I try to be stern, but there’s a part of me inside that sometimes really enjoys the things he comes up with. There were a couple of beauties today: “How do cannibals eat people? I mean, do they, like, start with the arms, then the legs…?” |
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