Everything you need to understand or teach Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School by Jane Kenyon.
"Trouble with Math in aOne-Room Country School" first appeared in 1986 in Jane Kenyon's second volume of poems, The Boat of Quiet Hours, and again in her collection of new and selected poems, Otherwise (1996). In both prose and poems, Kenyon readily confesses that math was her weakest subject. This poem recalls a humiliating moment in elementary school when academic difficulty leads to punishment, not help. In her case, it also leads to an inner...