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Cheese_Crackers posted...

It's definitely a separate skill to math itself. You need to understand things at a higher level than that which you're trying to teach if you want to be a good teacher. And it's really hellish if you want to teach a classroom of kids at once.

I was struggling to explain why something like 4-(-2)=6

Like I understand it as a rule but I couldn't explain as a concept that subtracting a negative integer from a positive creates a larger positive integer.

My only thought was maybe I should have used a number line?

Then I felt worse because telling someone "thats just how it is" is a terrible example of trying to teach.

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