meara, Frankie's in North Olmsted for pizza and other italian food (house salad is groovy if you are on the west side of Cleveland. Boy do I miss eating there. Malley's is great for ice cream and candy indulgence. But not for teeny tiny soft-serve cones.

I have some pretty big issues with it, actually, though those honestly basically come down to "If you were going to throw the traditional curriculum order out the window, thereby making it nigh impossible for students to easily switch states, couldn't you have taken the opprtunity to improve it SIGNIFICANTLY?"

Very true. What I like about it, from what I saw, is that it integrates proofs into everything, not just as a thing you do in Geometry and nowhere else. One of the biggest problems I have when I'm teaching college students is trying to convince them that their argument is as important as their answer -- it's not just "You have to show your work" but "Your work IS the answer -- the actual answer is just the last step of that." I really don't have enough experience with the NY curriculum to have a real opinion on how well it alleviates that problem, though.

Also, things like learning about the slope of lines around the same time you learn about angles in geometry seems good, plus things like learning about inequalities in algebra and in geometry around the same time. I also like the learning about probability and set theory in Math A, since those seem like fairly important things.

ION, I am eating green beans straight from the garden. Green beans that I planted, even. Daniel brought them in, rinsed them off, and handed them to me. So I ate them. No bothering with cooking them.

Hee. I was never so glad as when I got out of geometry and didn't have to do ANY MORE PROOFS!

I am staying right next to the Cleveland Clinic. Tomorrow I've got two coworkers with me, but htey're not coming in until morning.

What I like about it, from what I saw, is that it integrates proofs into everything, not just as a thing you do in Geometry and nowhere else.

Maybe in theory. Not so much in practice. At least not in the city.

I think I might actually say "screw you, prescribed order" and start my Math A class with the concept of logic and proofs. Not formal truth table stuff - that's actually in the Math B curriculum - but the importance of A implies B and THAT'S why B is true.

Hee. I was never so glad as when I got out of geometry and didn't have to do ANY MORE PROOFS!

Fair enough. Still the most important thing you do in high school math. Though i tend to think that proofs, like Hil says, should be integrated throughout the curriculum rather than jammed into one section, so that you don't even know you're doing them when you're doing them - you just prove things by habit.

I did stuff today! And I have been OMG so lazy this whole summer, so this is a bit of an accomplishment.

I put all my books on their shelves (they're not in order, but Not On Floor = Good), threw a bunch of random crap laying on my office floor away, paid (some) bills, dusted my bookshelves, and made two ham sandwiches and a bank deposit (not at once) and showered. And will now watch a movie, and then go to bed before 2 am.

ION, OMG so fucking hot in KC. I made the bank dep about 30 minutes ago (9:30pm) and it's still 95 degrees here. And as humid as Satan's ballsac. Grosssssss.

I brought the rum to the F2F-- Whaler's dark rum has become a staple in our house. good sippin' rum.

It is still very warm in the house.

Glad youdecided to stop vw, steroids build up in you body - -oh and I have to email you...

now insent

I'm tired of watching Two Gentlemen of Verona.

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Damn skippy.