Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Spring Break

My spring break is also March 23-27. At this time I do not have plans to go anywhere, but that could change.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah for spring break. Here's something that one of my math teacher friends sent me that I thought you would find entertaining.

    DAY 1
    : Teach them that (a+b)/c is (a/c) + (b/c)
    DAY 2
    : Teach them that a/(b+c) is NOT (a/b) + (a/c)
    DAY 3
    : Teach them that x / ln(x) is NOT “1 / ln”
    DAY 4
    : Teach them that you can’t solve (sin(kx)) = 1 by saying “x = 1/sin(k)”
    DAY 5
    : Remind them that a/(b+c) is NOT (a/b) + (a/c)
    DAY 6
    : Show them a movie of a student sitting in a field, writing
    “(a+b)^2 = a^2 + b ^2” and then getting HIT BY A TRAIN
    DAY 7
    : Remind them that a/(b+c) is NOT (a/b) + (a/c)
    DAY 8
    : Teach them that if the domain of the a function f is the reals, the graph
    of y = f(x) is NOT a blank pair of axes and perhaps they should adjust the “window”
    DAY 9
    : Teach them that x/(y+z) is NOT (x/y) + (x/z)
    DAY 10
    : Group work: Bring a trout to class. Have them solve sin(kx) = 1.
    If they get x = 1/sin(k), hit them with the trout. Make it a big trout.

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