A Little Testy

I am preparing to take the Michigan basic skills test for teachers in a few weeks. The information on the test plugged it as a simple examination to assess whether or not education students possess the knowledge necessary to complete basic skills in reading, mathematics and writing. It sounded simple enough.

Then, I got the study book.

Are you kidding me? Since when are polynomials and quadratics a basic skill? Clearly it is has been way too long since I had a math class. To be honest, I can’t remember ever seeing the quadratic formula shown in the workbook. Is it possible that I loathe math so much that I repressed all of this? I will be doing some serious studying.

Now the reading and writing stuff, that’s easy. I glazed over the study book’s sections covering the subjects, but I doubt I’ll do more than that to prepare.

Hopefully there is a bigger lesson for me to learn here. I’ll try and remember this test when I have to face a room full of students who aren’t as crazy about English as me. I’ll be keeping in mind that while I can talk for hours about the symbolism in A Room with A View, someone in the crowd actually knows how to use the Pythagorean theorem.

I guess we all have our own strengths.