Yes!

This afternoon my mentor-teacher let me lead the fourth period while she went to the bathroom. The class was working on a problem that asked, “Which expression below does NOT equal 24?” I was unprepared for my task, not even knowing how to operate the clicker, and my voice was hoarse from a cold. But as instructed, after a one-minute timer ran out, I stepped to a front corner of the room and said, “Talk with your shoulder partner.” The students obeyed me! After another minute, I winged what to do next.

The class settled down, I raised my right hand, and I asked, “Who got (answer) A?” Nearly all of the students raised their hands. I gave a thumbs up. I said, “Why?” The class said loudly, “Because the answer is 132!” I waited in particular for an insightful boy to get out the word “132”, he seated in the back and for whom English is a nonnative language.