...The moments I found most profound and life-changing in my education were those face-to-face encounters in a teacher's office where the difficult concept or skill finally clicked in a way I could understand. That is the experience of studying English (reading, writing, test prep, etc.) that I hop... (read more)
...One is to make the idea more concrete and less abstract. A student may not understand why 0.3 is greater than 0.25, but they know why three dimes are worth more than two dimes and a nickel. Another is to present a simpler problem with the same concept, such as posing 1/3 + 1/4 to a student who answers 7/12 + 4/5 = 11/17. (read more)