
03-16-2006, 12:07 PM
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is not this trim anymore!
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: New England
Posts: 21,709
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I first learned of "the aha hitting you" in Algebra Two class, in high school. The teacher was a very old man that talked like he had swallowed broken glass and had a crush on Vanna White.
He told us one day, early in the class, that he doesn't enjoy math. He doesn't like having his summers off because when school starts back up...it's hard for him to be enthusiastic about coming back to work. He teaches for one reason. "The aha moment". He said "There is nothing more rewarding than seeing a person's face the moment the aha hits them. And teaching Algebra, the most abstract concept to comprehend, affords me that opportunity." Ever since then, I've been interested in knowing what people's aha moment is. Sorry if it's a dumb or irrelevent question, but I thought it would prove interesting, and also do some good to reflect back on how far everyone has come.
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