This is somewhat off topic for this list, but I'm hoping some folks will
steer me in the right direction ...
This morning I visited a high school Algebra I class here in Duluth and I
found a batch of students who seem to dislike what they are doing and a
teacher who told me she thinks she doesn't know enough to help them.
I noticed she was giving them sets of problems to work on from a test manual
that came with the text, but she said the students come from such a wide
range of preparation backgrounds that she can't fit their needs.
There has to be something better out there than batches of 100 problems all
of the sort that ask you to simplify something like the square root of
50y^3.
Where does one find problems that the students would find more educational
than this stuff?