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⚐ ReportSwaney: The British visitors came to third period today. Jacob: Did they speak British? Swaney: *laughs* I probably shouldn't say this but... Amy Xiao was presenting on the European Union, and you could see their jaws drop. This was stuff they didn't know, and eleventh graders in America are learning it! [...] And then they stayed for my fifth-period on-level NSL class. The kids walked in the door and said, "Speak British! How do you say hello in Britain?" *laughs again* There's the entire spectrum of American education for you.
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⚐ Report//Megan hands Jessica two washers, one extremely large washer and one extremely small washer Megan: Jessica, which washer is heavier? //Jessica takes about 30 seconds to decide Jessica: This one. (points at larger washer)
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⚐ ReportO’Donovan: I don’t remember how to use my graphing calculator. Every time I need to use it, I look up youtube tutorial. When I got my degree in Engineering back in Georgia, we didn’t have calculators. When you wanted to do all these trigs and logs you got a big book of tables. Imagine how fast that was. *pause* O’Donovan: When I tell my son about all this, he says “mommy, did you have dinosaurs too?”
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⚐ Report//chaotic rose anthology, september 15 "I saw, in my peripheral vision, you weird people being weird, and I've decided to ignore it." "How are you doing? Say 'good'." "Even if you teleported here three weeks ago ..." "When I first came to this job, they had me teach Magnet Geometry. So I figured the students should learn logic first, as part of Geometry. But I wouldn't use the book, because the way the book does it is terrible. So I taught them Fitch-style proofs -- the 9th-graders. Their brains swelled to enormous size, and they were really smart, and when they did proofs later in Geometry, they thought they were easy. The packet you're doing now -- I had 9th-graders do it." "There's only a handful of rules [of Fitch-style proofs], or maybe two handfuls." "[Fitch-style proofs] are a great thing to do when you're bored, like on the bus, or when they take your phone away." "You should go to Sra Cuadrado's class and do these. If you don't have her class, just go to her classroom and do it there anyway." "I will assume, because you all are great students, that you all read -- at least twice -- my write-ups of class, which are often better than class itself." "[The logical law of explosion] is like if I have two halves of a hand grenade." "Are there more slides? I don't want there to be."
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⚐ Report//Dvorsky is explaining depth-first paths Dvorsky: So if I go here, I can't get to Huey, and here, I can't get to Huey, but if I go here...(walks down the aisle to Matt)...I can get to Huey! Class: But that's not Huey. Student: What does the algorithm say to do now!? Hannah: Cry. Cry hard.
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⚐ ReportAllen: I failed the SAT II. I got a 790. Now I won’t get into Harvard. Avikar: Not to burst your bubble, but you weren’t going to get into Harvard anyways.
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⚐ ReportRyan: You look like my brain-cells going cannibalistic because they're running out of sleep.