12.6.12 - did you hit your head last night?

There is clearly a "done" button in the corner. Perhaps this will be a keeper.

There isn't too much to say, I think. Alg 2 we did matrices on the calculator. It went all right. Little bit more practice and I might feel comfortable with them using for other stuff.

Alg 1 - went over part 3. Using 2 points to figure a line. Got into an exchange as to the relevance of math later in life. Yes. I get how people won't graph lines and such on an everyday basis. As my hubby put it, you aren't in high school to become awesome at everything. You are in high school to learn how to be responsible and to learn to think. No one wants to hire someone who can't/won't think. Everyday he has to deal with people who never learned to think through situations and make good decisions. It's a disaster. So these kids I have that hassled me today, before I got caught up in their lameness, I put my hands up and declared I was done. Done. I'm here to help, was trying to help and it was becoming apparent that they weren't interested in receiving help. So I moved on to others that were more willing to receive help. There were still some more that claimed to not know what to do (despite the fact they were calling out answers yesterday) but at least they didn't question the reason we were learning math. Bless the heart of the kid that was doing his work without complaint and helping those around him while I dealt with other people. Quite honestly, it was disheartening. Maybe it was because I thought I'd explained why we were learning what we were yesterday, maybe I'm just getting too frustrated. Maybe I expect too much. We were taught to be "doers" as a child, apparently not everyone was brought up that way.

The rest of the day I spent grading papers and having random discussions about dissection of animals in science class, the enormity of the Disney company and then the history/origin of corn. It was decided that I should branch into Science. Which would be cool. I'm really only interested in geology but that other stuff is cool too. Probably not going to happen for a while though.

I came home eventually. Ate good food. My husband says he's been trying to find presents for me for Christmas. He googled "best gifts for math teachers". The top two suggested gifts were 1) tranquilizers and 2) booze.
Sounds about right. Laters.