Mr. Laws had a lot of different ways to teach math, and he was very creative in the classroom. He didn’t just stand up at the front of the room and lecture in a boring way. I remember days when it seemed like no one in the class understood what he was trying to teach, so he would say it in a lot of different ways and even make jokes to help us remember the important ideas. Mr. Laws would tell us real-life examples of how math is used in everyday life, so we would stay motivated and focused. Sometimes when we would ask why we had to learn something that didn’t seem very important, he would explain how math fit into life and how we would need to know the information when we were adults living in the real world. Sometimes he would make us do things which were annoying, but not everything involving school is enjoyable, and we just have to deal with these things because this is what school has to be like at times.