Thursday, November 04, 2010

Little Blue Books

Scene: It is 5:30PM on a Thursday afternoon. In an empty classroom, Lisa and I are sitting with test booklets in front of us, furiously drawing graphs and reading through answers. A student walks in.

Student: You guys are grading exams already? How're we doing?

Us: Um... yeah.

Actually, we were rummaging through the tests, picking out the names of people who did well on the first exam, with the hopes that perhaps someone would be able to show us how to answer a question logically. Because we sure didn't know how to do it ourselves. It is slightly humbling when one has to look through one's students test papers for solutions. But when Lisa doesn't know something. That stuff is hard.

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