Favorite Tweets #12

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fnoschese“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think they’ll hate you.” via http://minkhollow.ca/beckerblog/2011/04/03/pseudoteaching/

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samjshah@ThinkThankThunk that’s precisely the question. i don’t know. (i do do the “dimensional analysis” thing)

ThinkThankThunk@samjshah you said do do

samjshah@ThinkThankThunk geez you can’t say anything around here without it being turned into a poop joke #andthatsthewonderoftwitter

ThinkThankThunk@samjshah you also said poop

samjshah@ThinkThankThunk oh sh*t i suppose i did

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Foussduh.: Student after returning from missing 2 days:  ”What did I miss?”Me: “Nothing.  We just sat here and waited…

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ThinkThankThunkStudent holding a coffee filter: “Will water go through this?”

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sophgermainkid 1: is every parallelogram a quadrilateral? Kid 2 draws a trapezoid

btwnthenumbers@sophgermain #facepalm!

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sophgermaintoday i got asked if i liked camping. I quickly responded “i really liked being in bed”. which sent my students in to a fit of giggles.

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k8nowak@dcox21 there once was a man from porterville. who thorterville florterville shmorterville.

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sophgermainI’m pretty excited for this movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDLhjm-0rJQ&feature=youtu.be in other news, ryan goesling takes off his shirt at the end of this trailer.

samjshah@sophgermain um, i would see this movie with you. #ryangoslingismy hero http://bit.ly/dfsJa8

sophgermain@samjshah So i went to new york i think it’s your turn.

samjshah@sophgermain i lived in CA for 4 years and you never once came to see me. #yourturn

sarcasymptote@samjshah @sophgermain oh man, ryan gosling is totally copying me AGAIN. come on, gosling, get your own game!

sophgermain@samjshah ummm…. pre-friendship totes doesn’t count.

samjshah@sophgermain oh then all the presents i got you to make up for all of your birthdays i missed are for naught? #theregoesmadmoneyandtime

sophgermain@samjshah all i ever wanted was your time #lovedontcostathing

samjshah@sophgermain oh grrl i’m very expensive #ifyouwantmytimeyouhavetogivemestuff

sophgermain@samjshah okay, you buy your plane ticket I’ll spring for dinner and a movie.#youhaveajobidont #upsidetobeingpathetic #hehe

samjshah@sophgermain deal.

sophgermain@samjshah #winner

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busynessgirlI’ve never been at a math conference with a dance. Not sure what to expect.

mathhombre@busynessgirl Surely you’ve heard Sir Ken. Gyrate uncomfortably then write a paper about it.

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samjshahyet another blog that makes me feel like a loser sucky teacher. read her blog (http://infinigons.blogspot.com/) & see her psets (http://www.scribd.com/collections/2959970/Math-Challenge-Problems-Calculus)

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k8nowakWell, that 6-hour nap that started at 6pm was sure an ill-conceived idea.

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jybuellWife says “am I getting chubby?” I hear - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVnArp9ZE0&feature=youtu.be I say - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s&feature=youtu.be #iwanttostaymarried

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AmberDCaldwellGot my issue of Education Week Teacher Source Book in my mailbox today and@ddmeyer is on the cover. Great article!

samjshah@AmberDCaldwell @ddmeyer *cat call whistle* lucky you getting that in your mailbox…#wheresmine #iwantmydanmeyerNOW

ddmeyer@samjshah You have no idea. I checked the gas station and /every copy/ was sold out. Assuming they carried Ed Week in the first place, obv.

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jybuell@misscalcul8 rule 1 of blog club: Never compare yourself to @dcox21

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thescamdogMy daughter just put me in a time out for hiding and scaring her. She didn’t take away my iPad, tho. Now I’m not thinking about what I did.

samjshah@thescamdog teachable moment for your kid! you should take away her ipad and have her think about how she failed to discipline you well.

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sophgermainthe number of things I will do to avoid school work is stunning.

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samjshahhad 1/5 stus in one class, 4/15 stus in another class, and 2/11 stus in a third class. chances that i didn’t do math and cancel classes? 0%.

samjshahone student said “awww, we’re having class?” and i said “if you didn’t want to do anything in school, why did you come?” #cutdaylogic

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sarcasymptoteI was going to write a blog post, but distracted by instruments and idea for writing musical based on poem love song of j alfred prufrock.

JackieB@sarcasymptote A musical measured in coffee spoons?

sarcasymptote@JackieB ha. Costume design: rolled trousers.

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Hillby258First useful thing I’ve ever read on differentiation: http://wp.me/pX3Bd-eA

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sarcasymptoteWhat started as a joke became 2 pretty good songs based on prufrock, with me on ukulele, harmonica, keys, and I taught myself some banjo

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ddmeyerBy the authority vested in me by Twitter: “No more cell phone plan problems unless you can prove the problem’s plans exists IRL.” Resolved.

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sarcasymptote@ddmeyer @jybuell baby penguins are adorable, but i don’t want to teach them.

samjshah@sarcasymptote @ddmeyer @jybuell speaking of baby penguins, did you see this gem? watch it all the way through. http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/18/ticklish-baby-pengui.html

sarcasymptote@samjshah @ddmeyer @jybuell @park_star i just saw that video this morning. exactly why i made a baby penguin reference

ddmeyer@samjshah @sarcasymptote @jybuell I’d teach that penguin

samjshah@ddmeyer @sarcasymptote @jybuell by the time you’re done, he’d know how to find # of tix in a roll. when @dcox21 is done, he’d know calculus

samjshah@ddmeyer @sarcasymptote @jybuell @dcox21 when i’m done, he’d still be confused why (8x)/7 is the same as (8/7)x. #mylifeonmondayinclass

irrationalcube@samjshah @ddmeyer @sarcasymptote @jybuell @dcox21 Then he’d be @ Sam’s level-able to verify his calculations with more complex calculations

sarcasymptote@irrationalcube @samjshah @ddmeyer @jybuell @dcox21 i wont teach it much, but it will hang in my room for hours playing with physics shit

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ddmeyeri ask my academic idols to sign their papers on my iPad with their fingers, embarrassing everybody, even the iPad. http://twitpic.com/4mvpkr

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ddmeyerIt’s a good check on my bile duct whenever the author of a piece I’m slagging stops by to say hi.http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=9929#comment-282792

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samjshahfinally. a good use for a wordle-esque image… http://brizzly.com/pic/4F0M

samjshahi guess i do really only twitter with math teachers. (and robinwasserman0

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samjshah@sarcasymptote if you swallowed and upchucked our relationship: http://brizzly.com/pic/4F0N

samjshah@sophgermain if you swallowed and upchucked our relationship: http://brizzly.com/pic/4F0P

samjshah@dcox21 if you swallowed and upchucked our relationship: http://brizzly.com/pic/4F0Q

dcox21@samjshah So our relationship is based in Bieber, Black and haircuts?

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samjshahyou know what? sometimes i look at my carefully curated FB wall, i think “wow, this guy is great!” i’m pretty ace. i’d be friends with me.

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ThinkThankThunk@sarcasymptote @21stcenturychem @samjshah tengo jeal. Want to have an Iowa part? No? Ok.

samjshah@ThinkThankThunk @sarcasymptote @21stcenturychem iowa is cool. not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFjXIgyeeKc #judgingastatebyoneAPvideo

21stcenturychem@ThinkThankThunk @sarcasymptote @samjshah that’s not so bad #oneeggomelet

ThinkThankThunk@samjshah @sarcasymptote @21stcenturychem Srsly, this guy’s cousin is a counselor at my school.

samjshah@irrationalcube @ThinkThankThunk @sarcasymptote @21stcenturychem maybe you can capitalize on the tourism, make some $crilla, and move to NYC

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sophgermain“your pink slip is pretty pink.” -the assistant superintendent of personal (direct quote said to me)

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sophgermaini hate the phrase “life long learner” I would like to rephrase it “not such a huge idiot that i think i know everything”

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EDTECHHULKEVERYONE SEEM LIKE FOOD TRUCKS! WHY NOT EDUCATION TRUCKS! “MEET US AT 4TH AND MAIN FOR INTRO TO ASTROPHYSICS AT 2PM!”

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samjshahwoke up at 2, at 4, at 4:45, at 5:20, and at 5:40. WHAT IS GOING ON?

calcdave@samjshah Dunno, but where does the sequence converge?

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EDTECHHULK“X IS DEAD! LONG LIVE X!” IS DEAD! LONG LIVE “X IS DEAD! LONG LIVE X!”

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pepepachaGrading student work and thinking “I must have been talking to them underwater with a mouthful of mashed potatoes.”

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sarcasymptoteOh god. It’s the return of mr softee. Nothing haunts me more than that terrible ice cream truck song.

samjshah@sarcasymptote OHGODNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not summer and icecream!

sarcasymptote@samjshah it brings back memories of 6th grade, when I got busted for mooning the ice cream truck. It’s haunting me now, parked outside.

samjshah@sarcasymptote CONQUER YOUR FEAR! moon it again and don’t get caught.

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JackieBJust read an essay that one of my student-aides wrote about her experiences in my class this year. Guess I was overdue for a good cry.

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samjshah@dcox21 i was super amazing in all respects. was, am, always will be. in short, you may call me your majesty & we can give up any pretense.

dcox21@samjshah Thanks for taking time out to talk with me, your majesticness.

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mathematicsprofPoem: Here’s to Newton, Isaac Newton, rootin tootin Isaac Newton.He was most astuten,no disputen, so lets give a saluten to Sir Isaac Newton

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EDTECHHULKHULK FEEL LIKE SMASHING TODAY! HULK NOW TAKING REQUESTS!

sarcasymptote@EDTECHHULK Bloomberg and the NYC Dept of Ed! GO GO GO SMASH SMASH SMASH!!!!

EDTECHHULK@sarcasymptote HULK NOT FOLLOW NEWS FROM THE CITY! WHAT BLOOMBERG UP TO?! HULK USUALLY LET IRON MAN TAKE ON BILLIONAIRE BAD GUYS!

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EDTECHHULKPEOPLE KEEP TELLING HULK TO GO GREEN TODAY! HULK CONFUSED!

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samjshahhave a great idea for a lark, but i wish i started it at the beginning of the year. for each book i read, i make a new cover for the book.

samjshahlike, not out of paper, but on my computer. i become a novice book cover designer like Peter Mendelsund: http://jacketmechanical.blogspot.com/

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calcdaveCheck out this wicked-awesome 3D graph a former student made: http://i.imgur.com/UaT4X.jpg(@samjshah)

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rdkpicklesenior prank today: converting the school into hogwarts. 4 hallways were 4 houses. (math was slytherin, of course.)

rdkpickleanytime anyone got something right in class i’d award “10 points for gryffindor!” dementors visited my 5th pd. hilarious and wonderful.

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sarcasymptoteUh-oh. I just figured out how to use the t-pain app with my smartboard. Class just got really really ridiculous.

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sarcasymptoteI’d appreciate it if ex-gfs stopped working at the bars I frequent. It makes tipping rather difficult.

woutgeo@sarcasymptote well then stop dating strippers

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mctownsley@dcox21 I’ve got a few questions about your last few tweets.

dcox21@mctownsley Hit me.

mctownsley@dcox21 *smack*

dcox21@mctownsley Doh.

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sophgermain“How’s your shoulder?” – dad “No Dad, your other child broke their shoulder. You know, your son.”

calcdave@sophgermain Your dad: “All you white people look alike.”

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stewartnI hate to be superstitious, but I have 666 followers right now. Unfollow destines a repeat, so please help me find a new follower – quick!

samjshah@stewartn weird. i have 665 followers.

stewartnI need 2 people to follow @samjshah right now. Please. Otherwise the world may end.

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samjshahin other news, my algebra 2 class bombed today’s assessment – second in a row. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? ugh. need to rethink things.

JackieB@samjshah I gave an assessment on angle properties last week. The mode score was zero.

JackieB@samjshah One of the kids asked if the median was also zero. It wasn’t. They started cheering “half of us did better than zero!”

JackieB@samjshah You know this, but tis a rough time of year. My cherubs are starting to shut down. They just take longer to grok things. I adjust.

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dcox21@jbrtva Organize? What’s that?

park_star@jbrtva I use a very superior system of file folders and piles of things needing to be filed…

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SweenWSweensMy long awaited Calculus song – f(u) – makes it’s YouTube debut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-chXvU4pza4&feature=youtu.be

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sarcasymptoteSo, @dcox21, @approx_normal, et al: my hair is a little too blonde to work well. But: the monkey tail beard. http://lockerz.com/s/99089874

k8nowak@sarcasymptote behold, only dude on the planet that can make that look cute.

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ThinkThankThunkWe’re actually the same height, @ddmeyer is just closer to the camera… (I’m in green)http://lockerz.com/s/99099222

samjshah@ThinkThankThunk you clearly only post important life moment pictures on lockerz. baby, shaving your head, and meeting @ddmeyer

ThinkThankThunk@samjshah The pictures of you and me skipping through fields of poppies will be relegated to flikr

samjshah@ThinkThankThunk but what about when we run into that unicorn playing with a narwhal? (*prays for LOCKERZ*)

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sarcasymptoteThe main reason I want to learn Spanish is to understand what the hell is happening on sabado gigante.

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sophgermainWhat being a grown up is like for me : thought, ” I have nothing unhealthy in my cart.”followed by, “im gonna reward myself with ice cream.”

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madcaptenorIt’s weird that I have the power to tell grown people if they can go to the bathroom.

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divbyzeroYou’ll be pleased to know that the Google web and image search results for “latus rectum” are all mathematical. #SoundsDirtyButIsnt

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DrTwittenheimerTwo Twitter people walk into a bar. First one says: “We just walked into a bar!”. Second one says: “RT We just walked into a bar! LOL”.

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joyomamaI made Grading Hell a location on Foursquare and now I’m the mayor. #nocompetition #profchat

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erinbrie‘I’m just trying to make every one of my students a little more awesome’ @dkuropatwa Still my favourite quote of the conference :) #rtw2011

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EDTECHHULKGREAT IDEA! LET’S SMASH WORD “GAMIFICATION” OUT OF EXISTENCE BEFORE 99% OF PROFS EVEN HEAR OF IDEA!

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jreulbachI totally want to have the kids Flash Mob the “Dance Steps to Solving An Equation” in the carpool line after school. How fun would that be?

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sarcasymptoteJesus Christ, my knee is the size of a cantaloupe. It is going to storm the shit out of NYC today.

Mythagon@sarcasymptote what are you, a 80 year old sailor? Or just quoting the Far Side?

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k8nowakI know “junderpants” was a thing on Wait Wait this weekend but it also describes some of the denim shorts walking around school today.

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samjshahOMGOMGOMGOMG i just ordered a smart phone!!! DANGER DANGER DANGER! SOON INTERNET EVERYWHERE!

calcdave@samjshah Woop! Woop! Nerd Alert! Nerd Alert! Woop! Woop!

samjshah@calcdave when you write woop, i think of dr. zoidberg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97Ao5e3m5E&feature=related)

calcdave@samjshah I see your Zoidberg and raise you the same voice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y_1TmbMbi0

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ThinkThankThunk@samjshah just abbreved Obvi.

calcdave@ThinkThankThunk Well, duh. @samjshah is totes the master of abbrevs, obvi.

ThinkThankThunk@calcdave @samjshah He’s fully committed to Sparkle Magic.

calcdave@ThinkThankThunk @samjshah The language of unicorns and pixies

samjshah@ThinkThankThunk @calcdave this is the only magic i’m committed to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViftZTfRSt8

calcdave@samjshah @ThinkThankThunk Certain Death! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dgmgub8mHw

samjshah@calcdave @ThinkThankThunk Bless You! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aINAYaoUtqM

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jybuell@sophgermain how r u 19 minutes in? We’re in the same time zone. R u tweeting from the future?!?!

sophgermain@jybuell I am!!!! live is for wimps. (also, people who have cable)

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k8nowak“The volume of a cylinder with r=a and h=b is greater than the volume of a cone with r=b and h=a: Always, Sometimes, Never”

k8nowakPrevious tweet brought to you by department of “warmup questions” that end up taking the whole class period.

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btwnthenumbersUm…@woutgeo (@calcdave @samjshah), hate to break it to you, but the integers are represented by Z, not I…

woutgeo@btwnthenumbers @calcdave @samjshah hate to break it to you, but it’s integer, not zintiger. :)

woutgeo@btwnthenumbers @calcdave @samjshah Zahl? Sorry, I’m not going to let facts get in the way

samjshah@woutgeo @btwnthenumbers @calcdave zfacts zare zor zlosers! zwe zlike zother zthings.

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ThinkThankThunkThThTh reviews year three, also a picture of @sarcasymptote in his furry form. http://101studiostreet.com/wordpress/?p=1983

ThinkThankThunk@sarcasymptote That pony makes your twitter account so much more palatable. I think your followers are going to skyrocket.

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sarcasymptoteUgh. Got the awkward clown squad from on high descending on my classroom to judge our school tomorrow. What antics should I pull?

dandersod@sarcasymptote Kris Kross dress-a-like day.

fnoschese@sarcasymptote Show a Khan Academy video on your SmartBoard.

sarcasymptote@fnoschese HAHAHA ROTFLMFAOMGOMGOMGzOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but seriously, they would love that shit.

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samjshahhome. headache. so tired. headache.

sarcasymptote@samjshah have you tried the whiskey approach yet? It’s like nyquil and excedrin all in one.

Mythagon@sarcasymptote @samjshah Or pony glitter? I hear @sarcasymptote has a lot of that stuff these days. Might turn your hair blue, though.

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rickravenJust was asked by a straight Republican if he could get “Legalize Gay” shirt to wear to his son’s little league game. Awesome.

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cheesemonkeysf@fzzxtchr What if I were teaching Leibniz’ monkey butts test for identifying when a limit exists?

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k8nowakIs it too late to demand to go by “Katie”? I think it is. Dammit.

merryfwilliams@k8nowak As long as you are not asking to be called something like “Princess” or “Peaches” than definitely not!

SweenWSweens@k8nowak @merryfwilliams Kate will henceforth be known as “Peaches.”

samjshah@SweenWSweens @k8nowak @merryfwilliams False. She will be known as “Peachy Princess”

ThinkThankThunk@k8nowak Katie “super skin” Nowakie?

k8nowak@samjshah @sweenwsweens @merryfwilliams In that case I think you mean “Noweezie” and also “Princess Peach”

SweenWSweens@k8nowak Whatever you say, Peaches.

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woutgeo“Khan is A teacher with over 53m students. In ny, thats over 2 classrooms.” #kholbert

woutgeoMy guest tonight wants to provide free education to everyone in the world. Big deal. I do that every night. #kholbert

sarcasymptote“I’m happier now because I get to give interesting lessons.” Proof that Khan doesn’t watch his own lessons. #kholbert

woutgeoC:Do u have a degree in ed? K:I dont have a degree in ed. C:could u teach a class in ed and then take it yourself so that u could have 1?

park_star@btwnthenumbers @woutgeo looks like @sarcasymptote got distracted by some doritos or something

sarcasymptoteOh, sweet, I just earned 1300 energy points for watching Khan on the Colbert Report!#kholbert

sarcasymptote@park_star @btwnthenumbers @woutgeo I actually am eating doritos. I was going for snark, but he is just as boring on #kholbert as his videos

sarcasymptoteAND! I just earned the irony badge! What a night! And I ate doritos and nutella through the whole thing, and didn’t learn anything new!

btwnthenumbers@woutgeo @park_star @sarcasymptote fair enough. I’ll give you your badge back.

park_star@btwnthenumbers @woutgeo @sarcasymptote 500 sparkly points for being a good sport.

park_star@sarcasymptote doritos AND nutella? You really know how to live. Srsly.

fnoscheseVideo from last night’s #kholbert report: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/388279/june-02-2011/salman-khan

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delta_dcPossible excuse for @RepWeiner & his infamous picture: “I was going to send it to @ddmeyer for#anyqs.”
#SorryIcouldnotresist

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ddmeyerWhen I’m working on finals I turn into a COMPULSIVE EATER. Leftover pizza? Gone. All the pistachios? Gone. Those hamsters better WATCH OUT.

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samjshahbeen off twitter most of the day. did i miss anything important? the rapture?

cheesemonkeysf@samjshah I solved the Riemann hypothesis this afternoon, but other than that, not much.

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ddmeyerWant to get lots of comments on your math ed blog? Just whisper Sal Khan’s name.

joshgiesbrecht@ddmeyer …three times in a mirror, at midnight?

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delta_dc#BestTeacherAdvice (after years of teaching) Relax, you could teach this lesson in your sleep. I tend to over plan/worry. #edchat

druinok#BestTeacherAdvice Start a habit of blogging or journaling – it’s a great reflective tool & you’ll be surprised at how much stuff you forget

mathhombre#BestTeacherAdvice @GPSMathCoach ”Don’t be afraid to say you don’t know something – provides an opportunity to learn WITH your students.”

mathfour@mathhombre Always bring your own chalk/markers. #BestTeacherAdvice #ed629 #edchat#mathchat

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k8nowak@ddmeyer re 2 lies of teaching STOP STEALING MY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE POST. j/k but seriously. weird.

ddmeyer@k8nowak Neener neener.

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JackieBAsked someone to share a google doc with me. They printed it.

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