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May 15, 2007
Just like my students, I never read directions
I was seriously panicking, as I was really looking at my teaching math this year as an absolute failure, as I thought that 55 percent of my students had failed the practice math exam. Now I realize that the multiple choice questions count as TWO points each, and now I have an 85% pass rate. Whew!
Still, I want at least 90% for the real exam. I have worked serious overtime this year, because I believe in my students, or at least I believe I will kill them if they forget how to factor quadratics, find trigonometric values, or use the Pythagorean theorem. Three weeks left of me threatening, cajoling, pleading, and lots of encouraging; then I'll seriously begin drinking.
My goals now for the summer? Drinking, tanning, traveling.
Posted by G at May 15, 2007 07:36 PM
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Just don't drink AND tan.
Posted by: Doug at May 16, 2007 02:52 AM
How much longer until you're finished? Have a great summer...I miss teaching sometimes.
Posted by: Patrick at May 16, 2007 09:38 AM
I could barely handle geometry back in the old days! Then I took trigonometry, and that was a joke!
You're one smart cookie G. If I have a math problem, I'll know who to ask! hehe!
Posted by: Robert at May 16, 2007 10:50 AM
Where are you going?
Posted by: Scott at May 16, 2007 02:53 PM
Uh oh. Hopefully my former math teachers won't find out that I no longer remember how to factor quadratics or find trigonometric values. I can still use the Pythagorean theorem, though. :)
Posted by: Alan at May 16, 2007 05:02 PM
So it's your summertime triangle.
Posted by: Blobby at May 16, 2007 05:37 PM
I feel I do my part for the world of science by making sure my mathematicians get their travel vouchers processed. (Why can't you guys do simple arithmetic?) My brothers got the science genes. I can help you out with 19th century English lit. Now there's a marketable skill.
Posted by: Tony at May 16, 2007 06:55 PM
Thankfully I can still factor quadratic equations (even the difference of two squares!) and use the pythagorean formula. But those damn trigonometric values! I still can't think of what exactly the value of the square root of 3 over two is off the top of my head. Irrational numbers, while harder to write, have more meaning to me.
Posted by: Luke at May 17, 2007 01:00 AM
All those times that I took algebra, geometry, trig and pre-calc in high school and I'm like, wth am I studying this for? I'll never use it.
Flash forward 20 years later and my prediction came true.
Advanced math is nice but it doesn't really factor into the ins and outs of daily gay life. =P
My pre-calc math teacher was kinda hot though. And probably gay, now that I think about it.
Posted by: Stash at May 17, 2007 10:31 AM
Math? Pah! I can add pretty well as long as I don't have mittens on. I got the art gene baby!
Actually, I wish I had the numbers gene, then I could actually lay tile and stuff without getting all confused.
Posted by: seth at May 18, 2007 09:02 AM
LOL - I am teaching Math this summer (to "literacy" level newly arrived immigrant high schoolers) and I am scared. I am a complete math-idiot bordering on math-phobe. Thankfully it is mostly 'rithmatic and fractions, decimals etc. I can do those, plus I will end up making it a language lesson anyhow...
Only a couple short weeks for us until the end of school. Whoooooooo hoo!!! I know I am a fool for teaching summer school but after a yearlong fellowship earning only $546 a month I need the $$$ to survive the summer. Now I just need to find a job for next year!
Enjoy your drinking and traveling - it's almost time!
Posted by: TOS at June 2, 2007 08:36 PM