We've been working hard, coaching students on the 2020 Cecil Floyd Math League, which includes KARLIE, LANDON, and NICHOLAS from our fourth grade class and CALEB from last year's class. These students and others have been doing extra work at home, and their parents are assisting them, to be ready for each week's coaching session with Mr. Culbertson, Mrs. Stagner, and myself leading them.
This year's team is especially special to us since their attitudes really seem to be in line with a growth mindset. These boys and girls do not allow mistakes to discourage them, but instead they show us that they are willing to learn from those mistakes and adapt for the future. We have a great time after school one day a week doing difficult math problems that would not be a part of the fourth and fifth grade instruction of a typical classroom.
Our contest will be after the first of the year, and we'll see where we can go from there.
This year's team is especially special to us since their attitudes really seem to be in line with a growth mindset. These boys and girls do not allow mistakes to discourage them, but instead they show us that they are willing to learn from those mistakes and adapt for the future. We have a great time after school one day a week doing difficult math problems that would not be a part of the fourth and fifth grade instruction of a typical classroom.
Our contest will be after the first of the year, and we'll see where we can go from there.
