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Bobby Rabon
The author has a master’s degree, including thirty-plus additional hours in education. He was a math and science teacher, coach, and administrator for thirty-five years in Louisiana. As an administ...view moreThe author has a master’s degree, including thirty-plus additional hours in education. He was a math and science teacher, coach, and administrator for thirty-five years in Louisiana. As an administrator, he was in charge of student behavior and discipline, and he had the opportunity to interact with many students with various academic and behavioral skills. One very prominent facet of the interactions was that behavior is influenced by degrees of success—and mathematics was one of the main reasons for lack of academic success.
After retirement, he provided instruction in many subject areas in an alternative school for suspended and expelled students. Interactions with those students reaffirmed the idea that mathematics was a major problem and needed an injection of a new paradigm.view less