Tonight's after dinner highlight--helping my 7th grader figure out how to change a number from a repeating decimal to a fraction. He had been taught a sequence of steps I don't recall learning (does not mean that I didn't learn them just that I don't recall). The steps were shown for a two digit repeating decimal. The problem he had was with a decimal that had one non-repeating digit plus one repeating digit. I reasoned through the solution. I shared it with him. It is good to know that what I have loved doing since I was eight or nine is something that I an still do when I need to--figuring out the solution to math puzzles. Finding creative solutions to problems involving people certainly won't be as easy, but it is a good symbol for the work that I will have to do and hopefully enjoy as I enter into my new position--for which I have been warned that problem solving will be the order of the day almost every day to start with.
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