Neokon

This is something that I've felt for the past 6 years of teaching and for some reason it's just now reaching the point where I feel I have to rant. I HATE the textbooks that my district has for math, I don't even think they can be called textbooks since they're just consumable booms with pages that can be torn out.

They're terrible, they don't have any actual institutions in them on how to solve the problems because they're paired with a presentation. The presentation is just an overloaded mess of slides. The "examples" in the book don't have any space for students to make notes, since that's what they're supposed to do I guess. It's only 4 practice problems that have only enough space for

I've taught middle school for 6 years now, mostly 7th grade. But something that I've noticed when trying to have a life outside of work is my concept of people's ages is extremely messed up now. I can help but assume everyone is younger than they actually are.

My 57 y/o principal? Early 40's.

The early 40's teacher? Wow we're the same age.

Someone my age? You've got to be in your 20's.

Anyone younger than me? Basically a student.

Is this normal? Will this correct when I move to highschool next year? Is this just a me not comprehending age like a normal person thing?