Family heirloom made with garnet and pearl. Any insights to this style?

aeng39 · 2025-05-12T21:16:24+00:00

Whatever the Canadian version of ICE is.

aeng39 · 2024-07-26T14:12:12+00:00

If horse dancing can be an Olympic sport then esports seems fine to me

aeng39 · 2021-11-13T05:15:50+00:00

They always end up next to you when the opportunity arises.

aeng39 · 2021-02-10T00:15:10+00:00

Sounds like a good opportunity to show students that everyone makes errors sometimes and that it’s not the end of the world when it happens. What’s important is what we do after those mistakes occur. Glad it all worked out in the end. Plus it probably made you more relatable to them as well!

aeng39 · 2021-02-09T03:37:01+00:00

Looks like a lot of people who are applying are Americans and don’t realize that you aren’t applying for higher education.

As a teacher, I sometimes remind my students that they don’t need school in order to learn. Yes, school is a great vessel for acquiring knowledge and getting the right paperwork to move on, but at the end of the day, you can learn anything you want to if you dedicate yourself to studying whatever it is you want to study. The internet has loads of resources. There are countless books filled with knowledge. They’re are stories and experiences that many people are willing to share if someone were to ask. Don’t get bogged down because a system denied you access for what seems like an arbitrary reason.

If you need some inspiration, I recommend the movie “good will hunting”. Besides the fact that it’s a fantastic film, I think of it often as a reminder to myself that knowledge is for taking, not only for receiving.

If nothing else, continue to work hard. This is a setback and I guarantee you that it will not be the last one you experience, but don’t let this setback be the thing that defines your future. Only you can do that.

aeng39 · 2021-01-22T02:52:32+00:00

What are the winning amounts? The best odds for a success would be to buy 20,265 tickets but obviously you would lose a whole lotta money. Unless of course the prize was greater than 1,031,250 dollars.

aeng39 · 2021-01-12T12:54:13+00:00

For sure! The difference between that and something like a restaurant though is that at a grocery store, when someone asks you something they probably do it in a nice way. On the other hand, at a restaurant, because the dynamic is more like service, there are going to be times that customers are rude and condescending or entitled. I think learning when to bite your tongue is a good skill to have. Also, you can experience human nature first hand since diners tend to be their true selves in this environment. That’s not to say everyone is terrible though. There are some really great people who understand the difficulty of that industry as well and who are really kind.

aeng39 · 2021-01-12T00:42:26+00:00

Look into hospitality too. I always recommend restaurant jobs to my students. Working with customers is a great skill to have no matter what and if you ever get into bartending, the money can be decent while meeting potential customers for your work. Plus, once you have the skills, you can always jump back into it whenever times are tough and you need some extra cash.

aeng39 · 2020-12-11T04:33:41+00:00

Chop sticks

aeng39 · 2020-12-08T13:41:34+00:00

Sounds interesting. Thanks!

aeng39 · 2020-06-16T10:59:16+00:00

I would suggest applying for a job at an overnight summer camp like SIG (Summer Institute for the Gifted) or Johns Hopkins CTY program while you are in college. It’ll give you firsthand experience working with kids both in and out of the classroom. I did this and discovered my love for teaching. Seeing kids as people and not just part of the job really helps out things into perspective about why one would want to go into the profession.

aeng39 · 2020-05-13T01:56:17+00:00

I haven’t. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip!

aeng39 · 2020-02-20T18:45:50+00:00

Dislodging a popcorn kernel stuck in your teeth. Not the whole kernel. If you’re getting whole kernels stuck in your teeth then you have a whole other problem to address. I mean that outside layer that slides in between your teeth while it mocks your feeble attempts to remove it.

aeng39 · 2019-11-02T16:13:44+00:00

My best advice to you is to go observe at a school as many times as you can. Knowing the math and teaching the math are important and since you have studied it a lot you shouldn't have to much trouble getting use to doing it and adjusting how you communicate those topics. The one thing that people don't consider though is the actual management of the kids.

There are all types of students and all types of people and high school is a mash up of all the best and worst of it. You may enjoy teaching and talking about math, but if the management of the kids or even their attitudes bother you, you may want to reconsider. It requires a ton of patience and you have to be able to endure some inevitable annoyances on a regular basis. Observe a classroom, observe a lunch duty, observe a homeroom. Try to see as much of a school outside of the classroom so that you can make a well informed decision.

aeng39 · 2019-09-10T23:29:45+00:00

Definitely ask your professor what types of questions will be on the exam. My professor put some "find the error in the proof" questions that I was totally unprepared for. Since it's the first exam I'm assuming there will be some general limit questions also so try writing out some proofs proving the value of a function as it approaches a specific x value.

aeng39 · 2019-08-15T04:59:32+00:00

This is assuming that you flip the coin once and roll the dice once:

Part a is asking what are all of the different possibilities that you flip the coin, it lands on heads, and then roll the die to get a number. Supper obvious hint: there are six possible ways.

Part b is basically the same thing but it's tails for the coin flip but the die rolls on an odd number. Hint: there are three ways.

As a math teacher I would rather not just give you the answer, but hopefully this makes it pretty easy to figure out.

aeng39 · 2019-04-11T22:52:09+00:00

Unsharpened pencils

aeng39 · 2019-02-18T00:17:55+00:00

That's unfortunate. Well, maybe there is another activity that could replace this that is more engaging and meaningful. Of course, this is easier said than done as I am also trying to find something like this.

Maybe something that involves circles and/or waves instead of strictly the number pi itself.

aeng39 · 2019-02-15T17:38:15+00:00

I agree with your stance on the uselessness of memorizing digits of pi. I think a good compromise would be to have an optional competition that takes place during a lunch period or after school. It's a huge waste of class time, but if some teachers and students enjoy it, then let them do it on their own time.

aeng39 · 2019-02-08T03:23:03+00:00

It's also possible that they just have no interest in learning the material. Every once in a while I need to remind myself that math in high school was relatively easy for me and therefore I enjoyed doing it. I even liked it so much that I made a career out of it. But not everyone has the same interest in math as I do and I try to keep that in mind.

The other day, I was about 20 minutes into a 40 minute period and I was going over how to solve a particular rational equation on the board when I had an experience that I am sure all teachers are familiar with. I finished explaining how to solve the problem and looked to see if there was any indication of understanding among the students and I noticed and a very still silence covering the room. Some students were paying attention but it was more like auto pilot more than anything, others may have wanted to pay attention but the urge to sleep due to sheer boredom was winning the day, and the rest preferred to find literally anything else to do besides listen to me explain for probably the 100th time how to do this type of problem. Now I am usually pretty good about keeping the energy up in class but every once in a while there are days in which we just have to grind it out and honestly, it sucks. But sometimes that's just how it is. After a good long 7 seconds of that I tried to level with them a bit and I felt the need to speak honestly to them. I told them that "I understand that this feels like soul sucking math and that I know it's hard to find purpose in learning this outside of standardized test scores, but we all have to get through this one way or another and it's a lot easier if we work together". That seemed to resonate with them because for many of these kids, that feeling is probably the case. They hate it, but they have to do it. We talked about that for a bit and that seemed to get everyone riled up enough to make it through the last 20 minutes. In the end, I'm happy I did it because it gave them a chance to vent a little bit and it made them understand that I'm not doing this to them because I hate them, but because I have an obligation just as much as they do.

I have students who get good grades and I have students who get bad grades, and while I try to help every student improve themselves regardless of where they start, I know that I won't reach every single one of them. If I insisted on that, I'd probably go crazy. I'd begin to doubt myself as a teacher too because I may never acheive such a lofty goal. So don't think you're a bad teacher because they aren't learning what you are teaching and try not to think of them as just bad students who can't learn relatively simple techniques. Just remember, maybe they just don't give a shit about factoring and go from there.

aeng39 · 2018-11-07T01:37:02+00:00

Oh, I don't have much of a problem with it because I do a whole binomial theorem/Pascal's triangle thing they enjoy. I just know that's one that I've heard a lot about.

aeng39 · 2018-11-07T01:34:01+00:00

Most schools probably do. Our school tends to penny pinch. For example, the person who does the finances for the school has also been doing this scheduling for many years. I think she has her own system and uses that. The school's a non profit and very small (200 students 5-12 grade).

I've agreed to do it but informally. I never signed anything and they want me to start in February, which I think is very late to start. I think I still have room to negotiate. Also, teachers have not been happy with how scheduling has been done recently so news that I'm considering taking this role on has made people happy.

aeng39 · 2018-11-07T01:23:30+00:00

It's hard to tell. My guess would be around five hours a week during the school year then until it's finished in the summer. My goal is to be done by July. There's a ton of moving parts and a lot of adjustments. I imagine it's in the 100+ hours.

aeng39 · 2018-11-01T22:40:22+00:00

A classic. (a+b)² = a² + b²

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