In the months leading up to the outbreak, through the transition to schools closing, I had some duties in a Hillsdale middle school.
In my coordinate system, there’s a “Hillsdale” nestled in some nearby hills, a small dale, so aptly named. Quakers have a worship group in there somewhere, however my work was with a private company with permission to work in public schools. We also have a Hillsboro, somewhat further away from my current 97214 zip code.
My duty this time was to serve as co-teacher, a format I favor. With two experts in the room, students have the benefit of their peer-to-peer banter. Sports broadcasts conventionally feature two commentators in dialog. Why not teach the same way?
Two teachers in a classroom halves the student to teacher ratio, say from 30:1 (students:faculty), to 30:2 (same as 15:1), and all with no need for more floor space. We call these ratios by the way, and find them at the roots of rationality, and yes, you guessed it, I’m a math teacher of sorts.
The curriculum I’m using is one I fused together from company repositories and my own, on Github and elsewhere. Source code is involved, yet I consider my topics mathematical in nature. I don’t see the need to artificially run a fence between lambda and delta calculus.
