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Math was always very easy for me, but I didn't know when I started if I was any good at explaining it.
Turns out, I was pretty good at that part, and after a couple years I learned what method they teach, so now I can explain it the way the teachers are teaching it.
I seldom do more than 1 day here, one day there, but; one school asked me to do Tues-Fri for 8th grade math.
I couldn't do the Tuesday, but they begged me to do the other 3 days, so I said ok.
That Wednesday, I come in and in every class, several kids told me that the Tuesday sub just passed out the worksheet and said "No questions; I can't help with math."
A college graduate with a sub license that can't help with 8th grade math? Begs the question as to why they took the assignment. (Yeah, I know the school may have been desperate & took any breathing sub.) But, still.
I spent the next 3 days catching kids up from the lost day.
I knew the teacher (now at a different school where I also sub), and he told me that when he found out who subbed he knew everything was going to be ok.
Nice to hear.