Hey everyone, welcome back to the blog! A few days ago, we had our nineteenth class for EDBE 8F83. In this post, I will reflect upon this lesson by using different prompts and supplementing them with images and resources. What struck you during this session? Something that struck me during this session was that sometimes you cannot solve problems the way you predicted. When I looked at our problem of the week, I immediately thought you could solve it with ratios; I saw the words “for every” and immediately thought I could do it using ratios. However, I realized that this was not feasible. My group and I used linear equations to find the answer and realized that it was impossible or more difficult than I anticipated it would be. I found it interesting that I was misled like that and that my original way of thinking was not the right way. I think this lets me see that the way you read and interpret the question is important and I will highlight that to my students. What were the d...