Texas Chainsaw Maths Occured

This evening I worked with the energetic and excited grade 2 students of Sycamore Elementary in Texas.  Their cool teacher, Mrs Louise Morgan,was kind enough to set up the session.  While she is new to the Skype classes, I think she is hooked!  The students were eager to participate and I managed to get each student to try their luck against me in the YES, NO MAYBE game.  I throught I was too sneaky for them but 2 stars were too smart for me!  The connection on my side was great but from what I can gather my voice was a little crackly on their side.  Meet the superstars of Texas...




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