I don’t know which problems to do.
I didn’t get the notes from the board.
I have no idea what I am doing.
I can’t find a pencil.
Where is my calculator?
Now I need an eraser.
That is not a parallelogram.
That is not how you find the area of the parallelogram.
I did say one half.
How am I supposed to know!
I am just too stupid to do math!
Ok. That formula is A=bh.
Now, I need to add each area.
Thank you for helping me.
Sorry about the attitude.
The Life Blend 
What a wonderful slice, an actual honest-to-goodness slice of your daily life work! I love how when we give it a moment, the narrative shifts.
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This is really powerful and vivid! To be honest, it also gave me some math PTSD flashbacks! I’m pretty sure I said ALL of these things to my parents as they tried to help me with math! And I think my son said many of these things to me as I tried to help him with HIS math.
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Oh, homework! Oh, math! Besides Physics, I don’t remember not wanting to do homework in school…maybe Vocabulary workbooks for Mrs. Farmer, but I actually liked learning about all the words, just not the homework. But you can’t have one without the other!
I love that your slice is just conversation! This will be inspiration for a structure in a future post for me. Thank you!
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