“This is going to be the year that I become advanced,” I thought to myself as my teacher was speaking to me about bumping me into 4th grade math. Through the years, I’ve been in many different grades. Some have had bad grades and no respect, but others have had good grades and the maturity of a grown man. Because of me skipping a year math, I got into QUEST, and My grades were stellar, I think 3rd grade was my most successful year. To begin, skipping a year of math helped me succeed. I was put into 4th grade math because my teacher and I both felt 3rd grade math was too easy for me. When I went to 4th grade math, I would do better than the 4th graders. We would play a flash card game where you had to guess multiplication problems. I would
