I have a group of middle schoolers every 6th period, anywhere between 3 - 5 students, which surprisingly is a handful when they're 12 and 13. One of them probably has ADHD, and he usually comes in screeching or yelping or dribbling or some other noise-infested way and riles up the other kids. So, I've discovered that putting a brain teaser up on the board often holds his immediate interest when he enters, and then I can get all the other kids to start on their work BEFORE JB distracts them. Many times though, once he's finished with mine, he'll erase it and put up one of his own brain teasers - some real and some he makes up on the spot.
Today, he wrote something along the lines of:
"Start at the White House and measure 25.9 mm to the power of 56, divided by 8.92759 to the power of 3 plus 73629.65297 km to the power of 62. How come?"
While he was working on something, I crept over to the board and wrote:
"Because the sun rises in the east."
I've never heard him laugh so long. All the way out the door and down the hallway. Oh to glimpse inside the mind of an ADHD middle schooler!
3 comments:
am i dumb if i say "i don't get it?"
There's nothing to get other than that he's so random, and he thought my non-sense answer was hilarious. Who ever gets 13-year-old boys?
You are such a good teacher!
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