Mr. Williams uses 360 waves to teach Geometry 

Geometry students believed in order for Mr. Williams’ class to go up in the rankings and earn a good reputation as a quality geometric course in their district, Mr. Williams' growth of degree waves also needed to be expedited.  The process of getting to those 360 waves that Mr. Williams dreamt about, was accompanied with criticism and defeat from not only his colleagues but mostly his students ; it wasn’t a clean road to success. 

At the end of the first trimester, when students tend to be anxious and desperate about grades thanks to final exams being right around the corner, a student spoke what he thought. “I think you should just quit working on the waves, and maybe find some other teaching strategy,” which interrupted Mr. Williams while he was trying to explain a problem on the board to the rest of the class. However, at some point all that criticism and hate would come to an end. 

For about two more weeks of Mr. Williams bearing complaints about his progress to getting 360 waves, Mr. Williams finally came to class with a fully formed 360 wave. “I got some good news for y’all boys,” he told his students. “I got my bad boys spinning in full circles.” His waves were at a full 360 degrees, exactly what the class needed. 

He took off his durag with more enthusiasm than usual and said, “Now stand up for prayer. Y’all know the drill.” After the class did its prayer Mr. Williams went to the board in front of the class. 

On the white board was a word problem and a diagram: 

Diagrams:  two triangle diagrams (both right angles that measure  90 degrees) 

Word Problem: Add both diagrams to prove if both right triangles will fit inside of a circle. Also find the difference between a circle (360 degree) and right  angle ABC.  

With Mr. Williams fully formed waves,  the class was able to solve this specific problem that they weren’t able to before. Both right angles summed up added up to 180 degrees, so the answer was that it would fit into a circle of 360 degrees. All the students proved their answer with the certification of Mr. Williams’ waves, and compared the measurement of both diagrams with the help of 360 degree waves. 

The success of Mr. Williams’ strategy that at first did not have a good success rate with his students spread across to the other math teachers in the building. In weekly teacher meetings, where teachers discussed the progress of students and which tactics worked in teaching in which ones didn’t, a teacher found the urge to ask Mr. Willaims what his secret was since he had seemed to turn his class around (students began to pass their quizzes and test with Bs and higher). 

“It’s all thanks to my 360 waves, Ms. Robinson,” said the math mentor. “At first they gave me trouble, but now my students praise me for it.” 

Mr. Williams stayed as the region's best waves and was proud to call himself the King of Waves. “They didn’t believe in me,” he gloated, “but I did.” 

Mr. Williams said to throw slander to the people that didn’t stay patient to his plan of teaching geometry with his 360 degree waves. He deserves the respect he has earned.