BOB

When I was little I kind of missed out on the idea of long division. Between switching schools and having been a lunch worker (we missed 25 minutes of math everyday) something just got skipped with me and I never learned. Sure I could divide, but that had all been just using basic mental math or looking for groupings of numbers. I could figure out how to divide a "big number" but it might take me a little longer or I would end up just using a calculator. I knew enough to get by but I didn't really know how to do it. So coming into this unit and seeing "Long Division of Polynomials" assigned as homework I panicked a little bit, never knowing exactly what it was that I would be asked to do. Oddly enough, after watching the video from Khan Academy on long division of polynomials it all made sense. So even though I didn't necessarily have a muddiest point in this unit, this concept helped me to clear up a muddier point from earlier in my math learning.

~Callie

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? " ~J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows