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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Subject matters clash!

Teaching today and something stuck me. In fact, about 3 things strike me every day I teach, but I tend to forget them. This one I still remember because it is most recent.
Kid: Can you help us on this question?
Me: Sure! <reads it over. It is a word problem involving velocity, time it took, and [...]

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Whelps

You know how people say “well….” and then people say “wellps….” Well, I just realized how much “wellps” sounds like “whelps” and instantly thought of Onyxia. If there’s a place where you fear whelps the most, or being punted into the whelp room, it’s Onyxia. Though it was pretty frightening doing UBRS the first few [...]

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Angels vs Yankees

8-8-08 (Day of the Olympics which I haven’t watched the opening of)
Is pretty pointless. It’s a sea of red out there.
The highlight was just being able to be close to them and think “wow…they are really here.”

This is a crop. I was taking a picture of who I thought was a-rod, zoomed in at 5x, [...]

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Paper craft wallet Part I

I’ve been wanting to get a new wallet lately. My wallet is very…cute…and it’s a little more bulky than I like it to be. I always get lots of coins and I need a bigger coin purse in my wallet, unless I want to get a separate little purse just for that…which I don’t really [...]

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Discovering Professors

I was reading this book one day, City of Quartz, for my History class and halfway through my assigned pages, I stop and think….wait a minute…who is the author again?

Mike Davis….hm…..omg! My professor for another History class I have is also a Mike Davis! I know he writes for newspapers…and his class is so super [...]

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I went to jail…

I went to one of the schools I tutor at today. The teacher that is in charge of the class likes to joke around, and told his students offhandedly that I was arrested and put in jail during the spring break. The kids were like, “Really? For what?” and he was like “Ask her”, and [...]