the hip-pocket vocab

October 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

scribd version… an old link i’d lost track of. doesn’t actually work; not here. god-damn it. try here (works as of now. this is infuriating.) fuck it. after a short while all i get is the fucking ads. sorry i brought it up.

FTI

October 16, 2010 in FTI

i can never find the doggone thing and it comes up too seldom to’ve memorized. the grapher won’t do multiple graphs. Press [APPS} keySelect Transfrm from the menuPress 1: Uninstall (… “Now the Y= editor should return to the normal display.”) i’m throwing away the 6-year-old piece of paper with this info on it now. [...]

the first exam is in an hour and a half. time for some random browsing.

October 14, 2010 in Uncategorized

barry garelick on coverage of “singapore math” at core knowledge blog (spotted at KTM).

Let A~B Denote “A is Confused With B”…

October 6, 2010 in Uncategorized

Part of my job (as I see it from here) is to break students of nasty habits like writing “+” when they mean “and”. Because, look. Suppose you know that A = B. Suppose you also know that C=D. You’d have to be pretty doggone obtuse to believe that you now know anything resembling A=B+C=D, [...]

there’s going to be a certain amount of fiddling around right in here. of course there’s a *better* way but what we’re after is the *easy* way. standards are great that’s why there’s so many *of* ‘em.

October 4, 2010 in Uncategorized

… … . any luck? three different symbols, right? an equal-sign-that-didn’t-know-when-to-stop; a “left-and-right-arrow”; and a *double* leftrightarrow. right? okay. it appears to work on *this* set-up; no telling what *your* mileage looks like (just be sure that it *will* vary). these symbols, then. these symbols *all* stand for versions of “two things have the same [...]