Math - huh?

Breakfast:
1c Dannon Light&Fit Vanilla Yogurt: 2 points
1 Fiber One granola bar (yummy): 2 points

Not to shabby of a breakfast - and it actually tastes good.

I am currently 3/4 of the way finished my Master's in Education. When I grow up, I would like to be a middle-school teacher, preferably in a Catholic school. I am not super-religious, but I do believe in giving kids a foundation of faith - whatever your faith is, I believe that we need to help our children believe in something. I pick Catholicism - whether because it was chosen for me or not, I like the idea of a Catholic education. (so there, that's my defense of wanting to teach in a Catholic school - sort of).

Anyway, I need to sit for my Praxis test, which includes Reading, Writing, and Math. I don't know about you, but I am having panic attacks (not literally) over the Math portion. I have been searching for some sort of Prep course, no luck, and complaining about it for months. While all of this has been going on, I purchased a study guide at Borders and it has collected dust for the last 3 months. Well, finally I am attempting some Math - particularly FRACTIONS. I totally must have missed school every year when we were doing fractions, because I have NO idea (literally). I mean, what the heck... I was chugging a long fine adding and subtracting fractions today, got a little nervous when they through in some mixed numbers, but I was doing it. WOW. All of the sudden I had to subtract a negative number. Needless to say, I started flipping pages in my study guide (no sample of this type of problem was discussed, as usual with Math texts they throw is samples with no EXAMPLE in the section), clicking away online looking for help... about 45 minutes later I find this awesome page and I got it.

My point is, why can't they make it easier? I don't mean the math, I mean the explaining. Have I added that i only have 2 hours to study before 4 of my 5 children get out of school. Have I added that I still need to clean up after breakfast, and do the rest of my homework? I know I didn't add take a shower - because there is absolutely no time for that. Gym, schym - I foresee no gym time today. "Oh math wizards of the universe, please, in the future, figure out a way to help us figure out how to do this math stuff - please stop taking pleasure in the insane mumblings of the mass population as we struggle to find our way through our texts - please have mercy on us all!"

Have a great day - stay warm!