Well I knew it was bound to happen at some point. I know that every teacher experiences it. How to overcome it, will be the biggest victory I've had so far in my career as a teacher. The roadblock I'm talking about is when you teach a concept, reteach that concept, and teach it again.. and the students still don't get it. What then? Right now, my roadblock is equations. Equations! My FAVORITE part of math. I love all the cute jokes about finding x. But for real.. I LOVE finding x. My students.... not so much. But we are getting there! I tried teaching about equations "the old fashioned way". I followed the textbook, I taught them how to solve using concrete manipulatives.. (and they looked at me like I was crazy). On the last quiz we took, I had 1 student pass, and 2 that didn't get a single problem right. We went through EVERY problem together, and then I had them correct their work, and write about their mistakes. I had them look at the co