Conversations with Students

"It's close, but not quite correct."

"Isn't it close enough."

“Nope.”

“What? Why not?”

“How long is your major axis supposed to be?”

“I don’t know.”

“Well what does the problem say?”

“I don’t know, I haven’t read it yet.”

“Are you calling us fat?”

“Eh.”

“That’s so rude!”

“So kick her back.”

“I can’t kick her back. I’ll break her.”

“No you won’t.”

“I can’t kick a girl.”

“Wow. That sounds a little bit sexist.”

“Yeah, that’s sexist.”

“Pre-requisite knowledge for this class.”

“What does that mean?”

"Mr. you're ruining my life!"

“Because the base of the equilateral is 4, and so if we draw in a height we have a right triangle with base 2 and a hypotenuse of 4. Then you can use the Pythagorean Theorem to…”

“But you don’t know the Pythagorean Theorem will give you the right answer. It could be 3.5.”

“Um… No. It can’t. That wouldn’t work.”

“But what if the Pythagorean Theorem is wrong.”

“It’s not.”

“Why, just because some guy said so?”

“No, because some guy proved it so. So it works for ever right triangle.”

“No one proved that.”

“Uh, yeah, sever people in fact. Look I have a book right here with Euclid’s proof in it.”

“No, you can’t prove a theorem. If you can only prove facts. If you could prove it, it would be called the Pythagorean Fact.”

"Mr. can you turn the AC off in here. It's too cold."

"Sorry, they don't trust us enough to use the thermostats. You can go stand in the corner to go warm up though."

"What would that do?"

"Well the corners are 90 degrees."

"Oh my god Mr."

"Wait which corner is 90 degrees?"

"They all are."

"Why are the corners so warm."

“Mr., we need the standards for you class for advisory.”

“You already have them.”

“No, you never game them to us.”

“They’re on your course packet.”

“Where?”

“Turn to the first page. See where it says, ‘Course Standards’?”

“Yeah.”

“And then it has all those standards listed under where it says ‘Course Standards’.”

“Yeah.”

"Oh my god, it took so long to finish my homework last night. I watched the whole movie Wreck it Ralph while I did it and that's like a two hour movie."

"Mr. I didn't have enough time to finish my homework this weekend."

"Well maybe you should spent time working on it yesterday rather than hanging out at the comic shop."

"How did you know I was there? Wait, were you there?"

"Mr., dance with us."

"No."

"Come on."

"No, I don't dance."

"What if I get a 4 in your class?"

"What?"

"If I get a 4 in your class you have to come dance in front of the whole school. Pinky promise me."

"I don't think I..."

"PINKY PROMISE ME."

"OK, fine."

"So now I'm going to get a 4 and you're going to dance in front of the whole school."

“Mr., can I go to the Bathroom?”

“Ask the magic 8 ball.”

“*Clicking noise*”

“Can I go to the bathroom?”

“Ask the magic 8 ball.”

“It says ask again later. What does that mean?”

“Probably means you should have been doing your work instead of talking about Pokémon with your buddies over there.”

“We were talking about Call of Duty.”

"I'm not sure I trust you with scissors."

"What? Why not?"

"You might cut yourself. You're kind of jumpy."

"How would you know? You don't even have me in class."