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Seine-Saint-Denis: Amina Khelil, the math boss who makes you love equations

2024-01-15T11:12:01.196Z

Highlights: Amina Khelil gave up a career as an engineer to turn to support. After brilliant studies, this native of Pas-de-Calais gave up her career to support her children. She is now the headteacher at CM2 in Seine-Saint-Denis, a school for girls and boys in the French city of Montpellier. "Divide, multiply, subtract and descend the number," her teacher Sabrina tells her students. "It went in one ear and out the other," one girl replies.


After brilliant studies, this native of Pas-de-Calais gave up a career as an engineer to turn to support


That Wednesday morning, three girls and three boys from CM2 were facing each other on either side of a table, under the gaze of Albert Einstein, portrayed in all colours, and Sabrina, their teacher for the day. On the agenda: one- and double-digit divisions. Ibtissem blocks on the first operation.

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"Didn't you learn your tables?" her teacher asks. "It went in one ear and out the other," the schoolgirl replies, mischievously. Sabrina repeats the four steps to follow: "Divide, multiply, subtract and descend the number." Some are more comfortable than others, but all show the same enthusiasm when it comes to going to the board.

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