Quote of the Day (pay)

"Mister, do teachers get paid more if they teach higher levels?" - Innocent question from a high school student. If that's the case, Algebra 2 must be the lowest math course ever. (11/26/14)

Quote of the Day (infinite)

"Why not!? There are only an infinite number of teachers that can teach Algebra 2." - Question and backhanded compliment from a former student who wanted me to lobby to take the place of his Trigonometry teacher, who is retiring in a few weeks. (11/24/14)

Quote of the Day (tutor)

"I'm the master at this! Who needs help?" - Comment/offer from a high school student who felt empowered by his mastery of some graphing calculator skills. (11/24/14)

Quote of the Day (zipper)

"Mister, I don't know if math can help, but my zipper's broken." - Facetious comment from a high school student after class ended. When he saw the confused look on my face, he hastened to add, "On my backpack. On my backpack." (11/20/14)

Quote of the Day (jet packs)

"Mister, they need to leave some jet packs for us at the bottom of the stairs." - Comment from a high school student after he just finished hiking up to my class on the third floor. (11/19/14)

Quote of the Day (calculators)

"CALCULATORS ARE FUN!" - Exclamation from a high school student after I showed the class how to make a complicated process simple by using the classroom set of graphing calculators. (11/18/14)

Quote of the Day (free time)

Student 1: "Mister, did you watch the [football] game?"
Me: "No, I don't have cable."
Student 1: "You don't have cable? What do you do when you have free time?"
Me (sarcastically): "I just sit around and do math problems all night."
Student 1 and his peers laugh.
An eavesdropping student asked me after Student 1 and his peers had left the class, "Mister, do you really do math problems at night for fun?" (11/17/14)

Quote of the Day (sniff)

"Oh, now I can smell his hair!" - Statement from a high school student followed by a lean forward and a deep inhalation after his friend switched seats to sit right in front of him so he could see the board better. (11/14/14)

Quote of the Day (instructions)

"Hey! That's what I did!" - Gleefully proud exclamation from a coworker during a workshop after the presenter asked us to fold a sheet of paper a certain way to get a 3x4 grid. My coworker's grid dimensions were 4x4. (11/13/14)

Quote of the Day (heart)

"I just told him to follow his heart." - Response from a high school student after I confronted him about what he had said to his peer who was trying to get his help during a test. (11/12/14)

Quote of the Day (fortune cookie)

"It's like a Chinese wishbone." - Description of a fortune cookie from a high school student. (11/10/14)

Quote of the Day (prgramming)

"That's so cool! I want to get into computers now." - Gleeful exclamation from a high school student after she finished writing/testing her first program to solve quadratic equations on a graphing calculator. (11/7/14)

Quote of the Day (sales)

"Hey Mister, do you remember that time I came to your house to sell something [for a fund raiser]?" - Creepy question from a student regarding an incident from several years ago. (11/6/14)

Quote of the Day (McDonalds)

"You just go in there and you get fat." - Comment from a high school student to her friend about McDonald's. (11/5/2014)

Quote of the Day (notes)

"That's because I knew how to do it right after you showed us [the problems] in class." - A high school student's reason for just writing down the answers after I asked him why he didn't write any notes on how to do the problems for the unit I taught last week. (11/3/14)