Re: Dyscalculia

[Sara Kimball <skimball@uts.cc.utexas.edu>]

I ask interns to write about a time when they needed help, what happened, 
how they felt about it.  I've also found that honors students can be the 
biggest problems in that class,precisely because they perhaps haven't 
experienced failure and, at UT are they are sometimes, I think, 
encouraged to think of themselves as above it.  

As for math, I agree with Fran Liebowitz: algebra doesn't exist in the 
real world. 

On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Jeanne H. Simpson wrote:

> Sara
> 
> All that you describe, understanding struggle and accusation, needing
> respect, all that is exactly why, when I used to interview potential
> tutors (I didn't get to choose, but I could recommend), I would ask, have
> you ever failed at anything?  What was it?  What did you do about it?
> 
> I would rather have the tutor who confessed to having a C, D, or F in
> something than the straight-A tutor.  
> 
> Jeanne Simpson
> csjhs@eiu.edu
>