I was 10 before I realized other kids didn’t do math homework during the summer, reports Padmini Jambulapati, a senior journalism major at the University of Georgia, and guest columnist in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution. My family told word problems over supper instead of stories. That’s just how focused my family was about learning.
Kudos to Ms. Jambulapati. This is an interesting column to share with people deciding whether to go along with common whines about “how hard X is to learn,” or to figure out how to master something and go beyond the ordinary. Thank you, teachers who encourage going beyond the ordinary.