Math and I parted ways in the middle of Algebra 2. Once I was out of that class I never went near math again.
Math is very very sorry and wants you to come back.
I really wish we could have a Buffista Retreat Week. We could do Math for Grownups Who Can Articulate Their Feelings, and nobody would have to do problem sets who didn't want to. I made a class full of people think calculus might possibly be not all that bad after all, dammit! Because, yeah, some people do have more of an aptitude for it than others, but that doesn't mean it ought to be torture for anyone!
I'm a wee bit tipsy and in love with the math right now. Math is looking at me askance and saying it needs to get up early in the morning, but that's okay. Math understands my foibles.
(Today my terribly energetic and adorable algebra teacher said, "Okay! Today we're going to go back to fourth grade, only we're going to do it right this time!" Sometimes math isn't austere and proper -- sometimes it's bouncy and gamine. Okay, I am more tipsy than I'd actually realized. My anthropomorphizations and I are headed off to bed. I have no idea what I just spelled, but it was scary. Look at that! It's gigantic and freakish! Er, anyway. I'm totally nervous about my first job interview in six years. Wish me luck!)
On my way home, I stopped at the grocery store. My purchases were Kleenex, sudafed, nyquil, OJ, lemon juice, and prepackaged food for dinner.
The woman packing everything up asked me very cheerfully "so how are you today".
Last August, I went into a drugstore in Orlando with prescriptions for antibiotics for two different kids and for three different asthma meds, two nebulized and one oral, and told the pharmacist we weren't in his computer because we were from out of state. He said, "Oh, my, you're having a wonderful vacation, aren't you?"
(Actually, I had complained about the pace we were planning, because I had wanted to do something more relaxing...we slowed things down a lot, and nobody was seriously ill, so it wasn't all that bad.)
Those are great flavours, bon! But if they were being truly respectful of the culture, they'd not have included alcohol in Zion or Rasta.
The Colbert Report
is fabulous this evening. Stephen "Mr. Scrappy" Colbert is being hilarious.
Em, are you cheating on Education with Math?
antibiotics for two different kids and for three different asthma meds, two nebulized and one oral
ACK! Parenting is more complex than the frickin' brochure claimed!
I think that it would be best to combine pre-algebra, Algebra I, and Algebra II into a two-year sequence, then follow that with geometry, and then trig and pre-calc, then calculus.
I think there should be multiple tracks. With HS science classes, if physics wasn't your bag you could at least think, maybe biology will be more interesting. Deciding to take algebra2/trig in 10th grade meant I had to take pre-cal in 11th grade, and I had to take calculus in 12th grade. Well, or fail completely and retake a class, but that wasn't an appealing option. When I rule the world, there will be the standard algebra-trig-calc track, or you can take stuff like stats, logic, & economics instead. Which is shit more people should know, anyway.
Plus, then the people who are taking algebra would either want to be there, or could comfort themselves by thinking, "At least it isn't statistics." Knowing you have a choice makes a difference, even if you're only choosing the lesser evil.
Em, are you cheating on Education with Math?
Her heart belongs to Education but sometimes Math just smiles that certain way and runs its fingers...
My nyquil just kicked in.
Whee!
Math is hard.
A sneeze woke me. Now I have to play "where'd the snot go?" and do a search so when I go back to bed I don't get a faceful of boogies on my pillow.
Does anyone still want to talk about eggs?
