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Here we go again....

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The new semester has begun and this time instead of three academic classes I have 2 academic and 1 applied. The academic classes are in the morning and the applied is in the afternoon. I am looking forward to this semester as it will bring an opportunity to refine what we have done, add new activities, and also have the applied class do similar activities.  My applied class is small, 8, with 6 regular attenders.  They are lovely and interested in learning, just very nervous about math. Debbie also has 2 sections of academic math, but joining us this semester is Natalie Dash and Katie Vlug.  We have a total of 7 sections of academic math and 1 applied between the 4 of us. After a bit of introductory material to start the semester, we thought we would try out our new Scratch activity: Graphing with Scratch .  I was feeling really confident with this activity since the other activities we had done unfolded essentially as planned.  Well.... this one, for me anyw...