Is It Okay to Leave Math Units Unfinished? My 8th Grade Dilemma

Confession time: I’m staring down the last weeks of the school year, and two math units are still untouched. 😅 I swooped into this school mid-year, already trailing behind, and now, with assessments looming and my students just surviving major tests, I’m torn. Do I rush through modeling data and graphing piecewise functions, or do I risk leaving gaps? Fellow educators, is it truly a catastrophe to not finish every unit? Or is this the unspoken reality of 8th grade math? Sometimes, I wonder if the curriculum marathon is more about checking boxes than real learning. Have you faced this? How did you balance depth with deadlines? Drop your wisdom (or war stories) below—maybe together we’ll find the perfect equation for sanity! 🤔📚 #Education #MathTeaching #TeacherLife