As a fifth grader, you should expect the homework problems to be more challenging than the previous years. I was asked to assist in solving a problem of determine the weights of a pineapple and an orange. The only problem was, I could not figure out the question without using an equation, but the fifth graders have not yet learned algebra. Because of this, I resorted to using trial and error, to which one of the students thought “the college age girl doesn’t even know how to do it”. I finally did figure out the answer, but since it took so long to figure out the answer, they were disinterested and unmotivated to figure it out for themselves. Regardless, I thought it was interesting to see the difficulty range of homework problems and motivation to find the answer from the group of students I was working with.