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⚐ ReportRose: I gave you 35 minutes of Happy Time, last class, to just do the Fitch-style proof packet. Stein: You have an unusual definition of "Happy Time".
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⚐ ReportRose, to Chikara: Sometimes, you'll just want to put on headphones, and get really focused, and do the entire packet [of Fitch-style proofs] all over again, listening to some heavy metal, maybe.
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⚐ Report//drawing triangles-in-square proof of Pythagorean theorem Rose: I'm not even putting in much effort, and it's coming out kinda well. Rose: This has been a lesson on effort. //Rose proceeds to absent-mindedly walk backwards and knock over a stack of boxes
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⚐ ReportRose, drawing a terrible square and getting criticised: Sometimes, teachers need some positivity, such as by lying. //students compliment Rose's continued drawing, which is still terrible Rose: See, I know you're lying, but it still makes me happy. Positivity's just like that.
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⚐ Report//chaotic rose anthology, september 21 "But I am not an 8th-grade Geometry teacher. I am Euclid." "This is why I don't let juniors take this class. Things get crazy. We're going to the Absurd World." "Now, Fitch-style proofs to the rescue!" "Fitch-style proofs aren't just for this class. You can do them for the rest of your life." "This is a proof-by-cases, inside a proof-by-contradiction, inside a conditional proof. There's no reason to be scared. This is just what's going on." "Angela saved me there. I'll remember that forever." "His name is Viktor Blasjo. I love him. He and I are Twitter friends." "[Ancient Greece] was like unending argument at a school board meeting."
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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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⚐ 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."
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⚐ Report//chaotic rose anthology, september 11 "Now, I am an intellectual, so I have a copy of the complete works of Plato." "At first, I thought I just didn't understand the theory of Forms. Later, I realised that no one gets it. Plato doesn't get it." "If we had infinite time and resources, I could have you answer all the questions, but that would be too much." "Imagine you're with your 50 friends, and you're in a cult. This is great." "Okay, yeah, you guys know too much." "This is really important, so I want you to feel it, emotionally. They found out that the square root of two is irrational." "This was back from the days when Twitter was fun and good. Now it's miserable."