2nd Post 565 Information Overload

As I stated in the title, I am the victim of information overload. When my students tell me their heads hurt from thinking so much (yes, they have said that to me!). I ask them: "What happens when someone goes into the weight room and lifts way too much for too long?" Answer - the areas of their bodies that were out of shape and exercised too much now hurt from atrophy. I do feel like I have been using my brain a lot this summer, though.

I have several new plans that I want to do once I get back to school. One plan is posting some of the great quotes I have read in the readings for this class and elsewhere. I will ask my students to tell me what they think the quote means. Another plan is to do "pop-up" drills of multiplication and division tables, then throw in some integers and fractions. I will be teaching freshman again (I had a vacation from them for the last 3 years!)

Having stated these plans and brainstorming on others, I have a practice of telling my students that, plain and simple, my job is to "make them think". I will continue to do this.