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⚐ ReportRose: it takes our happy little triangle and smushes it Rose: let's call it the killer matrix
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⚐ ReportRose: Jimmy, also known as Jamie, also known as James Jamie: *in a breathy voice* I am known by many names. Rose: you never fail to disappoint.
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⚐ Report//chaotic rose anthology, september 19 "'Do not touch your students.' 'Do not drink with your students.'" "Cross-Country is the closest sport we have at Blair to soccer for four-year-olds." "You'll just have to surrender to Fitch-style proofs." "Yes, you have to do this, just because I said so, sorry, not sorry." "Just a few days ago, or a few weeks ago, when we were all mere children ..." "You all will need to be savants of propositional logic -- which is actually not that hard."
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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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⚐ ReportRose: What is a minor? Esther: me. //later Rose: we just learned that [Esther] is a small crime
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⚐ Report//chaotic rose anthology, september 13 "If you want to understand the axiomatic method, you must live the axiomatic method." "Someone who hasn't talked yet -- this table, share your thoughts! ... You don't get it? Me too." "Do you want a more normal question? Here's a more normal question. It's also a harder one." "Little kids would learn words like this. Within some milliseconds of each other, they hear people saying the word 'milk', and they see the milk, and they drink the milk, and they say 'mmm, milk'." "Now, you all are 21st-century citizens, so you've drank the infinity Kool-Aid." "The whole is greater than the part. That'd be a great yearbook quote."