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Mad about math

So I’m walking around in one of my classrooms, and this girl is doing binomials.

(x^2 - 2x - 15)

Okay, so we know the answer is (x+3) (x-5), but this girl had the signs mixed up for many of her answers, and she was rewriting them on her homework. Plus for minus, and minus for plus. So I’m looking over her shoulder, and I ask

Me: Hey, so what’s going on here?

Girl: Ooh I just got these signs wrong, I mixed it up.

Me: …so…what happened, do you understand it now?

Girl: oh, yeah, if they are both negative in the question, then the answer will have a negative and positive, I forgot and made them both negative…

Me: …..(wth…)…so wait, you’re just looking at the signs to determine what the signs in the answer will be?

Girl: Well, yeah, that’s what our teacher told us…

Me: (….what kind of lame cheap shortcut is this teacher teaching?) So, you understand that you have to find two numbers that multiply to the 3rd number, but add up to the 2nd number right? -5 and +3 multiply to -15 but add up to -2, that’s why you use those signs, not because of just memorizing how they should be. You should know why they are like that…

Girl: …….mm..yeah…

Me: You can also check your work by foiling again to make sure you get the right numbers too…then you’ll know for sure you have the right signs…

Girl:…well..yeah..i mean…but our teacher told us we could just do it like this…

And that, my friends, is why I get depressed working at schools sometimes. But! I’m glad I got to snap some of these kids out of it. You know some kids aren’t even writing their math homework correctly, working horizontally instead of vertically? With lines written haphazardly in different areas of the paper? It kills me when I see it and it makes it hard for me and the student to follow. Did no one teach them an organized and logical way to do their math? Grrrrrrr…I’m dedicating a lesson to how to write in good math format when I’m a teacher.

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And then?

So I was walking around tutoring again, and I pass by this kid I’ve known since last year, who likes to talk to me sometimes, or hail me down for a question that he might not actually need the answer to.

Kid: Want to hear a joke?

Me: Sure!

Kid: (to Kid 2 across the table) Hey I’m going to tell her that joke…about the…

Kid 2: Nono…don’t! don’t……don’t!

Kid: (shaking head) no, I’m gonna do it.

Me: <Attentive and alert!>

Kid: So, there is a farmer and he has a donkey, and he wants to make his donkey laugh but he can’t. So he tells the village that he’ll pay 600 gold to anyone who can get him to laugh, and everyone fails, except for one guy, and he gets the donkey to laugh. But then the donkey can’t stop laughing and the farmer tries to get him to stop but he can’t. So he tells the village he’ll give anything 600g who can get the donkey to stop laughing, and everyone fails, except for the guy who got the donkey to laugh in the first place. So the farmer asks the guy how he did it, and

Kid 2: Noooo no…don’t do it….

Kid: I…..I can’t…..I can’t…..No, nevermind…I can’t say it….<turns away from me>

Me: …..@_@……(and?!?!)

Sigh…I really am in this position right? Try to connect with kids but still am apart.

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Spotty and update

I’ve been really spotty lately. Last week I was really sick so I didn’t get to go to a lot of the schools I work at. I think I had the flu, and I think the flu is going around. Have to be careful…But if I’ve had the flu already that means I’m good for this year right? Isn’t that how the flu shot works? It’s a good thing I have a pre-med friend who was always willing to check up on me. Thanks, K!

My brother is over for Thanksgiving and I picked up him myself! My first time picking someone up at the airport…Long Beach, no less! I had to do a little circling…and pulling to the curb…and it was dark…I feel really brave. ^____^. Aaaand he is over for a week! Yaaaay. Aaaand we are going to go to Disneyland today! I feel like I still go there enough that I need a pass @_@. Pictures will ensue, and my brother takes great pictures so we are in for a special treat. I’m going to bring my Princess Aurora (Briar Rose) tiara today. And I’m going to curl my hair.

How many times have I started a sentences what “and” today? Tsk tsk…my second grade teacher would be ashamed.

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Universal Studios, Zombie Style

I did ones of those, buy one day get the whole year free. So I went to Universal Studios again…I don’t even remember the first time I went. But it’s free, so what the hey. This was after Halloween and they still had some props up from their Halloween…Horror…thing. I forgot the name.

I watched Quarantine a couple days before this, so it was a little eerie.

I’m sure this would have been more scary at night.

Super climbing skills, check.

Zombies like candy.

And try to hang themselves on caution tape.

oooooooo.

Wreaking havoc with Bart and Millhouse.

What are you doing in there Maggie?!

Marge is pretty tall.

The atmosphere was pretty good around here.

This cart reminds me of the stands in Taiwan on the night market…with like..cooked innards. Hahahahah.

Bring out yer dead!

Should have been totally creepy.

Oh, hello, Jacob!

mmmmmm

And then I said to Lisa “Lisa, you’re my favorite!” and she blew me a kiss!

At the huge GameStop store in the City Walk. ooooo that gasmask is sexy.

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Star Wars

Am I the only one that was almost floored when I saw these? I saw a guy wearing it at Disneyland and had to ask him where he got it, and his friend with him said that her friend worked at Macys so she told them when the jackets came in and they ordered it through her.

Whew…lots of work for a jacket. But ooh these are sooooo drools. I have a thing for storm troopers…their armor is…….@_@. But…as a jacket, the white and black is kind of boring compared to the Boba Fett one. Who knew those colors would work? Apparently him!

http://www.shopecko.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3054996&siteID=.kD.YDErEtU-ehC.trVnaCeDBBUDoQbgDA

They are sold out…backorder available. Sigh…too cool.

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i lose myself sometimes

In a 9th grade class, I notice one girl has a big book for Bronte books.

Me: Hey, what is that book?

Girl: Oh, I’m reading it for silent reading time.

Me: <grabbing the book and leafing through it> man…it’s huge!…….That’s what shhh….<gasp>

Boy: (that I’ve taught since his 8th grade last year): That’s what SHE said…!

Me: @_@….<pretending not to hear it and quickly walks away>

I need to be a lot more careful. I don’t know what got into me.

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Remembering…Computer Expo in Taiwan

When I go to Taiwan in the summer, I look forward to the computer expo in Taipei. They usually have Intel there, which presents WoW. This video was from 2005. I dug it up. It’s pretty lols. My favorite part is the gnome kids.

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At this time, Taiwan hadn’t gotten WoW yet, so they didn’t really know how to play it. I was actually able to sign onto my US account from there too. Epeeeen. And I got to embarrass the guys there by teaching them how to play. kekekeke.

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Halloween!

Trying to do the MC Hammer/ Male Orc dance. Can’t touch this! Daa na na naa. na na. nana. Can’t touch this!

Well, I didn’t intend on dressing up. I really didn’t. But I had the paper mask laying around from BlizzCon, and the tabard is something I made for last year’s BlizzCon, and the mark was laying around too….So I put it all together. I was going to wear my pirate costume…but I thought it might be a little too much. Unfortunately, I decided I wasn’t going to wear it to pass out candy because…I just didn’t think the kids would get it. So I only wore this around the house for awhile. hehe.

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Pumpkin Time

OoooooOoOooh yeeeeeeah. While carving this I had sudden outburts of imitating The Joker. “Wwwhhhhhyyyy sooOOoooo Sssserrioussssssaaah!” Kind of creepy actually. WRU Heath Ledger <: (

Dear Parents,

Don’t worry, the kitchen is still clean.

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no thanks

At a middle school today:

Boy: Hey, smell my cheek

Me: …@_@…uh…no thanks!

Boy: Just smell my cheek! It smells like cologne!

Me: ^_^… <walks away>

To be fair, another boy had been spraying cologne, and this boy must have gotten some on his finger…and then smeared it on his face…and he might have been honestly wanting me to smell his cheek.

Still, I’m gullible, but I wasn’t falling for any of this. After my experience with “Let me tell you a secret”, I’ve become wary of things like these. All I need is his head to turn at the last moment. @_@. No thanks!