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@pthane

I'm trying to understand this.

If I flip a board "l-r" will the result be different than "r-l" ?

The way I'm picturing this the answer would be "no" right?

@jetlagjen

We use the numbers consistently because I find using three letters is more confusing for most students.

eg ∠ABC = ∠BCA

vs. ∠3 = ∠2

Which do you find less confusing?

We could also do ∠B = ∠C but naming angles by single letter is a bad habit since there can be multiple angles at a vertex.

@sarahdalgulls

We require this sign for the FDR highway in NYC.

@gimulnautti

Sometimes you can learn a LOT from a bad teacher. But that tends to come later in ones education.

(thinking of my analysis teacher in college. good lord. )

@gimulnautti

Very very few people are really "bad at math" in any real sense of the phrase. It's possible... but most of the time it's more like "had bad experiences being wrong and now avoid it" or "it's tedious and I have other things to do"

@oblomov

To be honest I don't really know. I've known her for only a few months and she's working very hard, possibly too hard to keep up. I'm worried she has some horrible complex system to either compensate or avoid dealing with the spatial reasoning.

I have the students work with compasses and it helps some of them. The compass is her mortal enemy. Every time she places it, it's just a guess ...

One of the harder things to accept as a teacher is that some kids will just never like math. That's fine though. I can cope.

What everyone *can* like (at least) is getting the right answer and knowing it's right. Knowing that yourself not needing anyone to tell you.

So I'm hoping we can at least get to that stage.

Right now I think she thinks I'm just making up geometry as I go and it's basically Calvinball.

She's good at algebra. It's dealing with figures, orienting them, seeing symmetry that seems to be the problem OR maybe she's just not trusting any of her instincts since most of math seems so counter intuitive.

But sometimes the answer is obvious, and the obvious answer is right?

Is there a name for when someone thinks they are really bad at something (for example math) and they have learned not to trust their own intuition at all so they make really wild errors by second guessing themselves?

Here is a question:
Which angles are equal?

To me this is an "easy" question even if you don't know about isosceles triangles or anything. The symmetry of the figure suggests that 3 and 2 are congruent.

I have a student who is struggling with this kind of thing.

@jamey

I used to not bother with polish because I HATE having chipped polish and if you have your nails done you always run that risk.

But then I discovered those polish remover wipes, which I stash at work, in my bag etc. so I can clear it off if it gets chipped.

This is making me want to do my nails today.

@jamey

I like it. Mixing magnetic and color changing is genius.

I've been into "nude" nail polish colors recently. Basically you get a polish that matches your skin tone. Which sounds kind of strange but the look is really elegant.

They sell samples! I was not getting a full bottle of this because even if I like it I don't think I can use it around ants.

But, I am deeply curious about what this smells like exactly. I will report on the fragrance.

More important? I will find out what the ANTS think of it. I expect it will make them angry. Possibly they will view it as copyright infringement of some kind and do a class action suit.

(all ant law is class action)

@quinn

They have the same chirality. Some cats go the other way.

@buba_and_nemo

Birds are lovely but they also scare me a little.

My fifth graders are making books in craft and tech class. I showed them how to make signatures then said "make at least 4, but you can make as many as you want." Sewing each one takes some time and concentration and I didn't see any reason to limit the numbers.

One kid made 23. She is making this huge tome. It's a dictionary. I somehow didn't notice how many she'd made until we got to the next step.

I think I need to bring some banding to give her spine more structure. It's so huge.

@toba

This was interesting. In math all of our assessments are given in person, with pen and paper and maybe a calculator.

This is because a "take home math test" kind of makes no sense. It's just too tempting to look up the right answers.

Perhaps in-person assessments should play a bigger role in brief writing assignments.

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@worldbollard

One is trying to escape!

@vonubelgarten @NanoRaptor

Do you have "New DIY kit in a Mylar bag?" I've been looking for that fragrance everywhere.

@josh0

... people ...

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