Doubting Self: Wait a minute. Think about all those visuals in the Kindergarten and First grade math books. What are you going to do - draw clocks and coins by hand?
Confident Self: Well, maybe I will! I could totally do that! Or I'm sure I could find images on-line and cut and paste.
Doubting Self: Right. How dumb. You could just spend $15 and buy the textbook instead of making it all from scratch.
Confident Self: Or, maybe we won't even need much of that. Since we're moving towards "living math" maybe we'll just use real clocks and real money. Isn't that even better than pictures of clocks and money??
Doubting Self: Sure, sure. I'm sure you'll have tons of time to just sit around with your Kindergartener playing with clocks and coins. No sweat. You only have FOUR older students who have way more complicated math to learn. Can we say "burnout"??
Confident Self: But ... but ... OK, I admit it! I don't know how this is going to work out! And maybe I will decide to go back to how we were doing it before - and that would be OK!! But this is just an experiment. And we haven't even completed a week of it. So, could you ... could you just be quiet and leave me alone!?!
Doubting Self: ...
Confident Self: ...
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