What could it look like to get credit for real world math proficiency?

Here’s something you should know about me: I knit furiously.

All the women in my family do. I learned to knit when I was six, lovingly coached by my grandmother, my mother, and my great aunt, a magician who could turn anything into a child-size sweater. And now, mumblety-three years later, I design and make my own knitting patterns. I hack existing patterns for size and gauge. And I spin my own yarn.

Here’s something else you should know about me: I failed algebra II. Twice.

But maybe I shouldn’t have.

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