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Today's the day, five out of five.

My name is Andrew Cooper.

I'm a fifth grade teacher in Salt Lake City Public Schools, Salt Lake City, Utah.

I've been teaching in Salt Lake for 10 years.

Come on!

Fifth grade boys and girls present in generally two entirely different ways.

The boys in that formalized classroom setting,

they tend to be attention-seeking in ways that are far more kind of overt.

So they're doing things like jumping out of their seats,

they're shouting out answers.

They're like very energetic and like they want to be seen,

both by their teacher and by their peers. All right, thanks for me to get started

on your math spiral review.

I mean, right now in my class, I have a boy who is,

he's a force of nature.

Sitting down for long periods of time and paying attention is like not, it's not working. And what we found that works is like one-on-one, like me sitting next to him.

How do we know if something's a polygon versus a not, not a polygon?

If they have size.

Today, while another teacher was teaching the math lesson to the rest of the class, the math

lesson took 25 minutes.

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