Math Tutor

Want to hear something funny?  Tonight I tutored/helped one of the kids with his math homework!  Those of you who know me maybe worried and thinking, “Oh no!  I hope she didn’t screw him up too badly…”  BUT!  Have no fear, it was only long division, and I actually know how to do that!  This boy is a typical male 5^th grader—way more interested in anything other than school work.  Tonight he was focused on killing bugs, like these nasty flying worm things that are mad Kamikazes dive-bombing people and lights at will!  But I digress…  This boy also spent five minutes setting up his workbook with lines, and it took another 10 minutes to figure out what his teacher wanted him to do.  The long and short of it (get it, long as in long-division?—did I mention we were up until 10pm working on math when I normally go to bed at 8:30-9:00pm here?  And now it’s 10:30 and I’m a bit punchy?), he really struggled through the first two problems—not unlike me at his age.  At the end of the third problem, with less coaxing from me, he began to “get it”.  The last two problems he completed on his own, and the answers were correct!  And it only took us one hour to do five division problems!  I told him how proud I was of him (in between killing cockroaches and flying worms), and that I would be more than happy to help him any time he had homework.

I knew God was going to use me in unexpected ways, but I never thought it would be as a math tutor… I’m just happy the eldest kid here is only in 8^th grade… :)