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Another month-long jag between updates
I suck as a blogger.
I finally finished grading the 4.4-4.6 tests from Calculus. The multiple choice I can grade rather quickly, but the free response takes a while. Add to that that I really can't do housework (much less grades) until the boy goes to bed and I have to do most of my grading after 10 PM. Luckily I chose a relatively easy problem to grade (and there was only one FR problem.) Unluckily, some students didn't even attempt it, even though it was just a right triangle.
And we'd discussed ladders quite extensively in class.
On Friday I went to the AP conference. The first day was quite interesting, and I enjoyed it. The second day was not so exciting, as all the sessions available were going over one problem for an hour. Although I appreciate dissection of a problem to understand why kids missed it, it did seem a bit monotonous.
After the conference, I bought a jacket for Miguel (since he doesn't really have one aside from the Tigger Hoodie he's got -- not a real jacket at any rate,) and a few packs of Lorwyn for myself. Miguel's birthday is in a week, and I still don't know what to get him.
Still have this cough. It's rather frustrating. It's going on six weeks now. The ghost of Mulchie strikes again.
On Tuesday, they're taking out of my Geometry classes those students that are at-risk of dropping out, and putting them into small (10-12ish) classes that'll be starting over in Geometry. I'm not sure how that's going to go for them, but I'll be getting used to the high turnover in my classes (as us Geometry teachers are expected to take in Mrs. Lavan's dissolved classes worth of students.) In essense, I'll lose ten students and gain about twenty.
Then again, considering the ten I'll be losing, it's not even close to "the devil you know" scenario.
No Saturday meets until Judson on the seventeenth. Thanksgiving comes much too early this year. Just seems rather weird. Some school usually hosts a contest either last week or this week, but none happened this year. If we weren't hosting three already I'd consider adding one.
Such is life. Not that anyone really reads this all that much.
~MP
I suck as a blogger.
I finally finished grading the 4.4-4.6 tests from Calculus. The multiple choice I can grade rather quickly, but the free response takes a while. Add to that that I really can't do housework (much less grades) until the boy goes to bed and I have to do most of my grading after 10 PM. Luckily I chose a relatively easy problem to grade (and there was only one FR problem.) Unluckily, some students didn't even attempt it, even though it was just a right triangle.
And we'd discussed ladders quite extensively in class.
On Friday I went to the AP conference. The first day was quite interesting, and I enjoyed it. The second day was not so exciting, as all the sessions available were going over one problem for an hour. Although I appreciate dissection of a problem to understand why kids missed it, it did seem a bit monotonous.
After the conference, I bought a jacket for Miguel (since he doesn't really have one aside from the Tigger Hoodie he's got -- not a real jacket at any rate,) and a few packs of Lorwyn for myself. Miguel's birthday is in a week, and I still don't know what to get him.
Still have this cough. It's rather frustrating. It's going on six weeks now. The ghost of Mulchie strikes again.
On Tuesday, they're taking out of my Geometry classes those students that are at-risk of dropping out, and putting them into small (10-12ish) classes that'll be starting over in Geometry. I'm not sure how that's going to go for them, but I'll be getting used to the high turnover in my classes (as us Geometry teachers are expected to take in Mrs. Lavan's dissolved classes worth of students.) In essense, I'll lose ten students and gain about twenty.
Then again, considering the ten I'll be losing, it's not even close to "the devil you know" scenario.
No Saturday meets until Judson on the seventeenth. Thanksgiving comes much too early this year. Just seems rather weird. Some school usually hosts a contest either last week or this week, but none happened this year. If we weren't hosting three already I'd consider adding one.
Such is life. Not that anyone really reads this all that much.
~MP
