Noise. There's good noise in class and bad noise in class. Good noise happens when kids are engaged in their own learning, when they are asking each other how to work problems, when they are collaborating to find a solution.
Bad noise happens when kids are off task. It's my job to re-focus my kids, to keep them on task. Some groups are more challenging than others. About every 10 years or so a group rotates through that is very immature. They are mostly just young for their chronological age. They just haven't yet caught up to being a 7th grader. They will; it will just take some extra time.
Not everyone in a particular class can be classified as the immature student; it's just that some years...occasionally...the immature group is larger than usual.
I work very hard to not teach less mathematics than other years. I do stress structure in my classroom, more so than normal. The routine molds the group as we, as teachers, prepare them for 8th grade. The structure, the routine is most important.
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