Virgin Blogger

This is my first attempt at blogging.  I am a recently retired Math teacher of middle schoolers.  When I told that to a saleslady today, she said that I was a SURVIVOR.  I guess you can say that I am a survivor of the system.  Teaching is a difficult, but satisfying occupation.  For the last few years of my career, I taught students who had difficulties comprehending math.  My job was guide and navigator of those rough waters.  My kids did well.  Many of them overcame years of fear concerning math.  They looked at it as so many rules.  I told them to see patterns, no rules just patterns.  Those patterns made sense to many of them and opened doors that had been closed for years.  I will share with you, my fellow bloggers, ideas that I have and random thoughts that I will form.  For now this is my first and there will be many more to come.