Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 31, Issue 2

Logowriter: The Real Story About the Tortoise and the Hare

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 31 Issue 2, April 1993

12 – 13

Logowriter: The Real Story About the Tortoise and the Hare

Marilyn Hahn

I do not like numbers. I have never had an interesting or caring math teacher. In Grade 4, I remember receiving my first inklings that math was not for me. I remember that sinking feeling in my gut, that feeling of failure and hopelessness that would never go away-I was told I was in the lowest percentile in the Iowa “thing.”