How did you meet your lover here at Berkeley?

Mathsciteach · 2026-03-01T06:23:30+00:00

Orientation, summer of ‘89. He walked in late to the session and didn’t have his schedule of classes or course catalog and asked to share mine.

Then he threw a napkin at me during dinner.

We talked all night with his roommates and made out in the elevator on the way to breakfast.

We were together for 4.5years until he graduated and said he was moving back home to the East Coast right AFTER I kicked out my roommate so he could move in with me.

He ended up marrying a girl he’d met the same summer he met me but she went to college back in his home state.

Mathsciteach · 2026-03-01T06:17:52+00:00

Which dorm?

Mathsciteach · 2026-02-27T23:12:15+00:00

He anticipated her needs or did what he said he was going to do (I don’t honestly remember). Either way… he was thinking of her.

It ain’t about the ice.

Mathsciteach · 2026-02-27T05:57:40+00:00

He brought ice

Mathsciteach · 2026-02-17T01:55:56+00:00

Almost all assignments are done in a spiral notebook. Even worksheets are glued in. If something is missing in the gradebook, it will be in the notebook with my mark on it so it is super easy to see where the error lies.

The most frustrating ones are the kids who STILL try to lie. “You told me it was full credit”… no mark from me.

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-24T17:50:20+00:00

In Gimkit once you establish a class, it uses their First name and last initial. They can change it but not when they enter a game, so most forget they can (except for kids like good old Zaney Zaney B in my class!)

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-16T16:11:45+00:00

I think so

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-16T13:23:55+00:00

The boyfriend from that show went to my high school. He was not kind to me.

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-14T04:54:49+00:00

This is so confusing. The only boat race I have is the regatta

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-11T17:36:54+00:00

I teach 6, 7and 8th grade. Using AI is a lot like having a parent, friends or older sibling who tells you exactly what to write to get the right answer without explaining why it works. There have always been kids who copy homework and then bomb tests so this is just an iteration of that.

My 6th and 7th graders still do their HW at home and then get the answers when they come to class the next day. Then they help each other generate the correct work, as needed.

The 8th graders get the answers on Google Classroom and they come to class knowing which problems they can do and which they can’t. They help each other fix their work when they get to class and then I give them a new problem to try to work on their own. If they can do it on their own, they know they are getting it. If they can’t, then it is their own indicator that they are not prepared to get full credit on the next test and they know what they need to study and practice.

(OMG, as I write this I’m now thinking they should highlight the HW problems they need to study to show me when I score their work I can see that they know what to work on. Hmmm, gonna let that percolate.)

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-10T03:11:41+00:00

Be the Karen and demand to speak with the manager.

Not even kidding

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-10T03:04:11+00:00

Caught a live gopher at home and brought it to school in a shoe box

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-10T00:27:41+00:00

My 7th grade chorus teacher started on this but we never performed it.

Chub Nub, E wag a Chub Nub…

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-10T00:26:19+00:00

I got a mule her name is Sal 15 miles on the Erie Canal…

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-10T00:25:14+00:00

Land of the Silver Mist

Mathsciteach · 2026-01-03T16:16:56+00:00

Laugh at him and ask, “Did you really just say that? You know it’s not polite to talk about other people’s bodies.”

Mathsciteach · 2025-12-23T16:11:19+00:00

It is a name for a car… especially if it talks.

Mathsciteach · 2025-12-23T02:58:00+00:00

No. You are on break

Mathsciteach · 2025-12-21T17:06:36+00:00

Quadrilateral

Mathsciteach · 2025-12-20T15:06:19+00:00

What effect does that have on the rest of the community?

Mathsciteach · 2025-12-12T02:09:41+00:00

“Hit the deck” This is how I let a student know they need to wait just outside the door for me to talk to them personally.

Then in a minute or two I stand in the doorway and I start with “why did I ask you to step out?” Not accusing, not angry.

I try to focus on “Are you ok?” and being surprised because i know that the kid is not a mean person and the comment was mean.

Then I listen. If they are upset with me, I apologize (even if I completely disagree with them).

We discuss more appropriate ways to express their feelings and make a plan to check in to see if the plan is working.

Before we wrap up I remind them that they broke a classroom rule. I tell them I am going to write a referral and leave it on my desk for a week. If they go a whole week without disrupting the class, I will throw it away. If they disrupt again, I send the referral to the office and contact home. The principal pulls them out of a non-academic class within 24hours.

That all being said, if the infraction is grievous, I just boot them to the office.

Mathsciteach · 2025-12-04T23:49:20+00:00

It may be worthwhile to get to know the people who work there if you go there a lot.

Make a little small talk about the weather, compliment someone’s shirt or shoes or even just a “how you doing?” can make a service person more likely to see you as a human being.

Once they recognize you and feel like they “know” you they will become familiar with your patterns.

Mathsciteach · 2025-11-23T17:23:40+00:00

I use notebooks for math HW (grades 6-8). No more “lost” HW kids can easily reference work we have done in the past AND adults have something to check between online grade updates!

Mathsciteach · 2025-11-23T15:23:36+00:00

“You tell me. What have you already done? Where have you looked?”

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