One of my fellow teachers described a conference he had with a parent. Her son was an excellent student in fifth grade at our school, but had fallen down to become one of the worst behaving and lowest performing students so far in sixth grade. The mom agreed, and said, "I know, it's crazy, he has done a real 69 this year."
Complete and utter math failure. (But not from my co-teacher, from whoever this woman's teacher was 20 years ago.)
I don't know if it's so much a math failure as a Freudian slip, at least that's how I prefer to think of it.
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