12/14/07
Kristin: “Let’s go ask him (Mr. McKenzie), it could take the rest of the period.”
Fitz: “Yeah, I know, that’s why I’m not going to do it.”
“You got the pink slip, daddy.”
“You have to think under means looking up or looking down.”
(mumbles) “I love fun…”
“It’s hard… it’s hard… I can’t say what it looks like.”
12/17/07
“It was so stupid, never mind.”
12/18/07
“I might have a spoon.”
“Yeah. A game called quiz.”
“This is big F, this is big F. Little F, little F, little F prime.”
12/19/07
“Just call me the Grinch… or Scrooge.
Dan: “Are you asking for a bribe?”
Fitz: “Ahahahaha….”
“They have an alpaca farm, they also have guard llamas.”
“She (Dolly the alpaca) keeps a big wad of hay in her mouth all day.”
“…and we had big laugh about between cheek and mouth.”
Fitz: “That candy in your mouth reminded me of…”
Laura: “A tumor?”
Fitz: “Dolly.”
“If you don’t have the dx, I’m going to be angry. Anger turns into lost points.”
“We have a problem here.”
12/21/07
“Is this shalom? Shalom?”
(Hums the Jeopardy theme)
1/3/08
“If you asked, you should be able to do it, which means you can figure it out.”
“Blareublehbleh!”
“It’s just a plug an check problem.”
Megan: “What does FOIL stand for?”
Fitz: “It’s a kind of wrap you put around stuff.”
“You can do that interval without doing a stitch of integration.”
1/4/08
“This should be in your lexicon of understanding.”
“It’s kind of like a strange animal.”
“Why am I doing this?”
1/7/08
“Stand up and shout.”
“Anyway, she had an affair with him…”
1/8/08
“It’s a robust part of calculus.”
“This is a little slight of hand, mathematically.”
“That was a little premature.”
Dan to Jacob: “Shut the hell up.”
Fitz: “Hey! Shut the… heck.. up.
1/9/08
“I’m the man, huh?”
“ Slope fields did not come into vogue until about twelve years ago.”
Kristin: “What would you rather give up, your alpacas or calculus?”
Fitz: “Oh geez… alpacas.”
Megan: “Did she really say spell it out for you?”
Fitz: “Yes, she was very obnoxious.”
1/10/08
“I don’t know why U came into vogue.”
“When Reese Witherspoon, who I really enjoy as an actress…”
“Well they’re not more challenging… they’re more challenging.”
“Let’s leave the three there for a minute and let it chill, you’re right.”
“Oh! Oh! You got dissed!”
1/11/08
“It’s not like this, it’s the flip of the bird.”
1/15/07
“HOT!... Not you, the quiz. Don’t go home and tell your mother I called you a hot. She’ll have me fired.”
1/16/07
“You’re going to hate me for this, but you’re only eleven people.”
“You’re all stressing over this- which is good.”
1/17/07
“Wait, wait a minute, Nick was actually talking.”
END OF SEMESTER 1
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Friday, December 14, 2007
November 5th to December 13th
11/5/07
“My wife had the animals and they had microchips implanted so they passed the microchip test.”
“I forgot to have a medical test- two medical tests done.” (his alpacas)
“Our animals were illegally in Vermont. They could have been confiscated.”
“They gave us a facility to quarantine them in.”
“If the health inspector ever found the animals, we’d be in big trouble.”
“I hate to say it, but it was my wife’s fault.”
Laura: “Do we have a quiz tomorrow?”
Fitz: “Uhhh…..”
11/6/07
“This is not a quiz…. eh… flicker.”
“This IS an alpaca sweater.”
“And now I have to take the second derivative of this beast.”
“And take two aspirin and call the doctor in the morning.” (pauses and then snickers)
11/7/07
“Looks like we’re depleted in a few numbers, but all the important people are here.”
“What a function.”
“You see, you guys are fighting it, but it’s not too difficult.”
Laura: “Why do you give us such difficult problems?”
Fitz: “Because it’s fun.”
“We want to take the limit as ‘x’ gets large.” (followed by laughter)
“What’s so funny about that?”
11/8/07
Laura: “Oh, shit!”
Fitz: “Hey! What?”
“Occasionally, I parked illegally.”
“I ran out screaming, ‘Fuck, fuck, fuck!’”
“Oh my god, I just screamed ‘fuck’ in this guy’s face!”
“Anyway, you’re supposed to say Sherlock after that.”
“Anyway, let’s do some fun calculus.”
“Let’s not muddy the waters with two variables.”
“So, I’m putting fencing in here, probably to keep the peas from attacking each other.”
“Don’t muddy the waters by doing it with the product.”
11/9/07
“Alright, sports fans.”
Megan: “How’d you get that? I don’t see it.”
Fitz: “That’s because you were too busy eating your bagel.”
“Ehh… I can read.”
“The trough, of the trough.”
11/13/07
“All the important ones are here, except Kristen Tedford.”
“Yesterday, I had a fellow bring a whole load of gravel.”
“I had to open several gates of our alpaca field.”
“You talk about being sore, I’m really sore.”
“I had taken the boys and put them in a separate field.”
“My, my, there’s only one alpaca that I see here.”
“They were probably a quarter mile away.”
“Seven of them were gone.”
“They don’t have any car sense either.”
“I yelled, ‘Come on boys, come on boys.”
“They all followed me like the pied piper.”
“A wild alpaca chase.” (they chased him a quarter mile back to his house)
“The mean value theorem. It’s a mean one.”
11/15/07
“David, where did you come from?”
“I fail to see the logic.”
“I can’t be wrong this early in the morning.”
“Calling Heather, garbage, this early in the morning…”
11/16/07
“You fold it in half and eventually it goes to the moon.”
“I have to admit defeat.”
12/4/07
“I have to get my head back in this whole thing.”
“Determine if extrema, extremum…”
“This is here the concavity changes… well, sometimes.”
“Pleasant? Oh yeah! It’s wonderful.”
“You like that, huh?”
12/5/07
Nick: “What if we don’t have honor?”
Fitz: “Then we have to cut your fingers off.”
“Turkeys in a boat… on their way to hell,”
“Derogatorily, we’ll call someone a turkey.”
Megan: “Quiet in the calculus room.”
Fitz: “Thank you.”
12/7/07
“I was heavy-handed with my point subtraction.”
“We’re going to go slow and it’s going to be tedious, until we speed up.”
12/10/07
Dan: “Let’s fire up this calculus machine.”
Fitz: “Let’s fire up this calculus machine.”
“I just want to do raw mathematics.”
“Well… we used to have Coke cans.”
12/11/07
Dan: “Because he loves Eisenhower.”
Fitz: “Oh, we're getting into all the McKenzie-isms?”
“In the face of calculus, arithmetic becomes a challenge.”
“Enigma, that's right.”
“Grammar is a big part of my life.”
“It was taught by a guy who was as dry as toast,...”
“I'm such a slow, ploddy reader... I tend to take decades to read things.”
“How are you gonna clown it up?”
12/12/07
“I can’t calculate infinite area… (grins) although I’ll contradict that statement later.”
“When you’re choking… or not chocking, coughing like that- put your hands up.”
“Invoke. Let’s bring it on the screen.”
“I don’t have to reinvent the wheel here.”
Dan: “Shit yeah.”
Fitz: “I beg your pardon?”
(writes “Pain” on the board)
Dan: “Is that an acronym?”
Fitz: “No, it means, “Ouch, pain.’”
Laura: “Did you go school, Ms. Damian?”
Fitz: “Stop that.”
12/13/07
“This one is based on a height of zero, which is disturbing.”
“This is kind of like bludgeoning it to death.”
“My wife had the animals and they had microchips implanted so they passed the microchip test.”
“I forgot to have a medical test- two medical tests done.” (his alpacas)
“Our animals were illegally in Vermont. They could have been confiscated.”
“They gave us a facility to quarantine them in.”
“If the health inspector ever found the animals, we’d be in big trouble.”
“I hate to say it, but it was my wife’s fault.”
Laura: “Do we have a quiz tomorrow?”
Fitz: “Uhhh…..”
11/6/07
“This is not a quiz…. eh… flicker.”
“This IS an alpaca sweater.”
“And now I have to take the second derivative of this beast.”
“And take two aspirin and call the doctor in the morning.” (pauses and then snickers)
11/7/07
“Looks like we’re depleted in a few numbers, but all the important people are here.”
“What a function.”
“You see, you guys are fighting it, but it’s not too difficult.”
Laura: “Why do you give us such difficult problems?”
Fitz: “Because it’s fun.”
“We want to take the limit as ‘x’ gets large.” (followed by laughter)
“What’s so funny about that?”
11/8/07
Laura: “Oh, shit!”
Fitz: “Hey! What?”
“Occasionally, I parked illegally.”
“I ran out screaming, ‘Fuck, fuck, fuck!’”
“Oh my god, I just screamed ‘fuck’ in this guy’s face!”
“Anyway, you’re supposed to say Sherlock after that.”
“Anyway, let’s do some fun calculus.”
“Let’s not muddy the waters with two variables.”
“So, I’m putting fencing in here, probably to keep the peas from attacking each other.”
“Don’t muddy the waters by doing it with the product.”
11/9/07
“Alright, sports fans.”
Megan: “How’d you get that? I don’t see it.”
Fitz: “That’s because you were too busy eating your bagel.”
“Ehh… I can read.”
“The trough, of the trough.”
11/13/07
“All the important ones are here, except Kristen Tedford.”
“Yesterday, I had a fellow bring a whole load of gravel.”
“I had to open several gates of our alpaca field.”
“You talk about being sore, I’m really sore.”
“I had taken the boys and put them in a separate field.”
“My, my, there’s only one alpaca that I see here.”
“They were probably a quarter mile away.”
“Seven of them were gone.”
“They don’t have any car sense either.”
“I yelled, ‘Come on boys, come on boys.”
“They all followed me like the pied piper.”
“A wild alpaca chase.” (they chased him a quarter mile back to his house)
“The mean value theorem. It’s a mean one.”
11/15/07
“David, where did you come from?”
“I fail to see the logic.”
“I can’t be wrong this early in the morning.”
“Calling Heather, garbage, this early in the morning…”
11/16/07
“You fold it in half and eventually it goes to the moon.”
“I have to admit defeat.”
12/4/07
“I have to get my head back in this whole thing.”
“Determine if extrema, extremum…”
“This is here the concavity changes… well, sometimes.”
“Pleasant? Oh yeah! It’s wonderful.”
“You like that, huh?”
12/5/07
Nick: “What if we don’t have honor?”
Fitz: “Then we have to cut your fingers off.”
“Turkeys in a boat… on their way to hell,”
“Derogatorily, we’ll call someone a turkey.”
Megan: “Quiet in the calculus room.”
Fitz: “Thank you.”
12/7/07
“I was heavy-handed with my point subtraction.”
“We’re going to go slow and it’s going to be tedious, until we speed up.”
12/10/07
Dan: “Let’s fire up this calculus machine.”
Fitz: “Let’s fire up this calculus machine.”
“I just want to do raw mathematics.”
“Well… we used to have Coke cans.”
12/11/07
Dan: “Because he loves Eisenhower.”
Fitz: “Oh, we're getting into all the McKenzie-isms?”
“In the face of calculus, arithmetic becomes a challenge.”
“Enigma, that's right.”
“Grammar is a big part of my life.”
“It was taught by a guy who was as dry as toast,...”
“I'm such a slow, ploddy reader... I tend to take decades to read things.”
“How are you gonna clown it up?”
12/12/07
“I can’t calculate infinite area… (grins) although I’ll contradict that statement later.”
“When you’re choking… or not chocking, coughing like that- put your hands up.”
“Invoke. Let’s bring it on the screen.”
“I don’t have to reinvent the wheel here.”
Dan: “Shit yeah.”
Fitz: “I beg your pardon?”
(writes “Pain” on the board)
Dan: “Is that an acronym?”
Fitz: “No, it means, “Ouch, pain.’”
Laura: “Did you go school, Ms. Damian?”
Fitz: “Stop that.”
12/13/07
“This one is based on a height of zero, which is disturbing.”
“This is kind of like bludgeoning it to death.”
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Honors Calc. Sporadic Quotations
"There is a syndrome alpacas can get into called Berserk Alpaca Syndrome."
"Males have fighting teeth."
"These teeth are actually made to emasculate other animals."
"We select who gets emasculated."
"From then on, I wore leather gloves."
"Males have fighting teeth."
"These teeth are actually made to emasculate other animals."
"We select who gets emasculated."
"From then on, I wore leather gloves."
Saturday, November 3, 2007
October 12th to November 1st
10/12/07
“I’m on a roll here. I haven’t made a mistake yet.”
Fitz: “I’m just too good.”
Megan: “You’re just too good?”
Fitz: “I’m just too good…”
“Negatives are no good. They’re just too negative.”
“The points are, OH, radicals… way too radical.
“I did my little switchy thing there.”
Fitz: “What a messy little thing this is.”
Megan: “It comes out clean”
Fitz: “I bet it does.”
Fitz: “Good guy.” (Pats his own back)
Megan: “You’re full of it today.”
Fitz: “Yeah, I know.”
“Because I said so.” (Responding to mathematical question)
“I dunoo ah… uh… ahuh… I didn’t know it was due.”
“The other laggards I have to chase down…”
“People will come in and be angry with me for their ignorance… which bothers me…”
10/12/07 (Pre-AP Calc.)
“You guys call it incest, we like to call it line breeding”
“…and I said, ‘what’s an alpaca?’”
“No, you can’t teach them tricks.”
“Llamas are good guard animals.”
“Llamas will chase off any critter.”
“The alpacas are like little lawnmowers.”
“You try do something and he wets his pants.”
“Everyone is scared of porcupines.”
10/15/07
“…and I have to go help freshman decide what to do with their lives.” (Rolls eyes)
“Okay, put your heads down…”
Fitz: “Megan’s leaving, she’s disgusted.”
Megan: “Do you need me to stay?”
Fitz: “No.”
Fitz: “Here is the $64,000 question.”
Megan: “$64,000?”
Fitz: “$64,000,000.”
Dan: “Just drill this home a little further.”
Fitz: “Yeah.”
“It is so cool. It is the coolest thing in the world.”
“Yeah, but there’s chain rule. Chain, chain, chain.”
“’COSH is easy, but SINH? SIGNAH?”
10/16/07
“Alrighhttt…”
“Clickety-click.”
“I love this book, but the only thing I don’t like is that they leave the exponential stuff for later.”
“’e’ is wonderful.”
“You don’t like ‘e’?”
“The thing about high school math is that you have to paint with a broad brush.”
“Play in traffic… ahaha…”
“Go play in traffic, Laura.”
10/18/07
Laura: “Did you miss us yesterday?”
Fitz: “Terribly, I cried all the time.”
“Okay, now I feel really bad.”
“And I’m really going to fry your brains so fire will shoot out.”
“And then maybe your parents would go to jail… of course, that could be a good thing.”
10/19/07
“Alright girls, get out of here and go to the bathroom.”
“The bridesmaids had wonderful knee-high silk dresses… with boots.”
“My shoes are squeakin. It bothers me.”
“Every once and a while they throw a little zinger on.”
“One over two, times that beastie.”
“If I’m going to confuse you that much, I’m going to do it in a simpler way.”
“Okay, Aretha.”
Kristen: “I quit.”
Fitz: “No, you can’t quit.”
“C’mon Joe, play the guitar.”
10/22/07
“I’m doing this right off the cuff.”
10/24/07
“What, you can’t do these? You’re having trouble with them?”
“Eh eh eh… thirty-five…”
“This beastie…”
“Hm, hm, hm, hmm…”
“Oh, I was sweating bullets over it, but it was easy.”
“Big, sweat… nodules.”
“Have you heard about the new super virus?”
“Wash your hands.”
“Yippee! Kayee. Kayee.”
“Rumors spread exponentially. News spreads exponentially.”
10/25/07
“I’m sorry if the exclamation mark means I’m shouting!”
“You have to know what you’re doing… I don’t want to make people feel bad…”
“Oh, this is so fun!”
“No, you can’t do cold, hard cash.”
Megan: “You love using that word in this class.”
Fitz: “Enigmatic.”
“Hey, this is what life’s all about- changing stuff.”
“Roll of the dice.”
10/26/07
“Hemi… spherical… reservoir.”
“Over the shoulder.”
10/29/07
“I did it very quickly, but you would get there eventually.”
“I’ll throw out all the red markers, I don’t mind.”
10/30/07
“Another moving shadow, only the shadow moves.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Hoo-hah, what fun!”
10/31/07
“Not everything is extreme.”
“Where is x and what is y?”
“Positive values hold water.”
11/1/07
Fitz: “Oh, hello Nick.”
Nick: “What’s the formula for the area of a circle?”
Fitz: “Oh, I’m sorry, it’s ∏r2.”
Fitz: “Are you just rolling around in the hall?”
Nick: “I basically am.”
“Cupping like this, cupping like that.”
“I’m on a roll here. I haven’t made a mistake yet.”
Fitz: “I’m just too good.”
Megan: “You’re just too good?”
Fitz: “I’m just too good…”
“Negatives are no good. They’re just too negative.”
“The points are, OH, radicals… way too radical.
“I did my little switchy thing there.”
Fitz: “What a messy little thing this is.”
Megan: “It comes out clean”
Fitz: “I bet it does.”
Fitz: “Good guy.” (Pats his own back)
Megan: “You’re full of it today.”
Fitz: “Yeah, I know.”
“Because I said so.” (Responding to mathematical question)
“I dunoo ah… uh… ahuh… I didn’t know it was due.”
“The other laggards I have to chase down…”
“People will come in and be angry with me for their ignorance… which bothers me…”
10/12/07 (Pre-AP Calc.)
“You guys call it incest, we like to call it line breeding”
“…and I said, ‘what’s an alpaca?’”
“No, you can’t teach them tricks.”
“Llamas are good guard animals.”
“Llamas will chase off any critter.”
“The alpacas are like little lawnmowers.”
“You try do something and he wets his pants.”
“Everyone is scared of porcupines.”
10/15/07
“…and I have to go help freshman decide what to do with their lives.” (Rolls eyes)
“Okay, put your heads down…”
Fitz: “Megan’s leaving, she’s disgusted.”
Megan: “Do you need me to stay?”
Fitz: “No.”
Fitz: “Here is the $64,000 question.”
Megan: “$64,000?”
Fitz: “$64,000,000.”
Dan: “Just drill this home a little further.”
Fitz: “Yeah.”
“It is so cool. It is the coolest thing in the world.”
“Yeah, but there’s chain rule. Chain, chain, chain.”
“’COSH is easy, but SINH? SIGNAH?”
10/16/07
“Alrighhttt…”
“Clickety-click.”
“I love this book, but the only thing I don’t like is that they leave the exponential stuff for later.”
“’e’ is wonderful.”
“You don’t like ‘e’?”
“The thing about high school math is that you have to paint with a broad brush.”
“Play in traffic… ahaha…”
“Go play in traffic, Laura.”
10/18/07
Laura: “Did you miss us yesterday?”
Fitz: “Terribly, I cried all the time.”
“Okay, now I feel really bad.”
“And I’m really going to fry your brains so fire will shoot out.”
“And then maybe your parents would go to jail… of course, that could be a good thing.”
10/19/07
“Alright girls, get out of here and go to the bathroom.”
“The bridesmaids had wonderful knee-high silk dresses… with boots.”
“My shoes are squeakin. It bothers me.”
“Every once and a while they throw a little zinger on.”
“One over two, times that beastie.”
“If I’m going to confuse you that much, I’m going to do it in a simpler way.”
“Okay, Aretha.”
Kristen: “I quit.”
Fitz: “No, you can’t quit.”
“C’mon Joe, play the guitar.”
10/22/07
“I’m doing this right off the cuff.”
10/24/07
“What, you can’t do these? You’re having trouble with them?”
“Eh eh eh… thirty-five…”
“This beastie…”
“Hm, hm, hm, hmm…”
“Oh, I was sweating bullets over it, but it was easy.”
“Big, sweat… nodules.”
“Have you heard about the new super virus?”
“Wash your hands.”
“Yippee! Kayee. Kayee.”
“Rumors spread exponentially. News spreads exponentially.”
10/25/07
“I’m sorry if the exclamation mark means I’m shouting!”
“You have to know what you’re doing… I don’t want to make people feel bad…”
“Oh, this is so fun!”
“No, you can’t do cold, hard cash.”
Megan: “You love using that word in this class.”
Fitz: “Enigmatic.”
“Hey, this is what life’s all about- changing stuff.”
“Roll of the dice.”
10/26/07
“Hemi… spherical… reservoir.”
“Over the shoulder.”
10/29/07
“I did it very quickly, but you would get there eventually.”
“I’ll throw out all the red markers, I don’t mind.”
10/30/07
“Another moving shadow, only the shadow moves.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Hoo-hah, what fun!”
10/31/07
“Not everything is extreme.”
“Where is x and what is y?”
“Positive values hold water.”
11/1/07
Fitz: “Oh, hello Nick.”
Nick: “What’s the formula for the area of a circle?”
Fitz: “Oh, I’m sorry, it’s ∏r2.”
Fitz: “Are you just rolling around in the hall?”
Nick: “I basically am.”
“Cupping like this, cupping like that.”
Thursday, October 11, 2007
September 28th to October 11th
9/28/07
“Yeah sure, you can use a calculator.”
“On second thought, no calculator…”
“I changed my mind… you can use a calculator.”
“There are sometimes where I can’t even do justice to the language.”
“I haven’t done this, so it will just be off the cuff.”
“In the language of mathematics, mixed with a little English…”
“Yeah… well… ok.”
10/1/07
“Rrrrabbbit…”
“Oh no, It’s rabbit, rabbit, rabbit.”
“I’m telling a story here.”
“At 5:00, when I arose, my first thoughts were of my daughter… going to her Greek class.
“Hold your enthusiasm.”
“I’ll give you a little… primer on chain rule.”
“I’ve told you, you can’t do this.”
“Kiera… you… uh rock.”
“I love, I’d really love… I think I’d like to teach Calculus.”
“And she said, ‘Keep dreaming, Calculus is my life.’”
10/2/07
“Remember, don’t drink and derive. All good mathematicians know that.”
“I’m on fire!”
“Jerk is what spills your soft drink.” (reading from the textbook)
“I’m just as confused. I’m confused… about it.
“I’m going to get Daniel up and dance to Aretha Franklin.”
“I want to get that into your lexicon of thinking.”
“Oh baby, we’re getting into it now!”
“Do you guys line dance? Do you go line dancing? (not a response to any previous conversation)
“You are just Calculus fools, that’s all you are.”
10/3/07
“If you didn’t get it, we’ll hang draw and quarter you tomorrow at dawn.”
“That was kind of flogging the problem.”
“Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh. You’re going to die when you see this.”
Meghan: “We don’t have that keen eye like you.”
Fitz: “I know, I know.”
“I smirk and laugh.”
“I’m laughing at myself here, no just… I’m not laughing at you.”
“I was just thinking inside the box, not outside the box.”
10/4/07
“I built you up an let you down,”
“…but I haven’t gone all the way inside.”
“Let’s build up slowly….”
“I beg your pardon? That was so fast, I didn’t hear a word.”
“It’s much more rhymey.” (Talking about the quotient rule)
“Like rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit- these have a life of their own- they get circulated among math teachers.”
“Arrr-eetha!”
10/5/07
“Lucky thirteen… lucky… thank you.”
“See what... see what you can do before I jump in and show all you how.”
“Either you are using a Calculator or you are not.”
10/8/07 – Honors Calculus
"It was where all the high mucky-mucks go together."
"It was kind of a travesty of justice."
"Math definitely does have a history - a long, rich history."
Fitz: "Math happens on levels."
Dylan: "Like sedentary rocks."
Fitz: "Or Dante's Inferno."
"Its hard for us mere mortals to understand the math that’s happening on those upper levels."
"Which I don't really find like, WOW, WOW, WOW!"
10/9/07 – Honors Calculus
"Shh, Shh, Shh! SHH! SHHHHH!"
"The theorem is an odd duck."
"You already know the answers to all these questions, so why don't you just be quiet."
10/10/07
David: “Can you do 35?”
Fitz: “I hope so.”
“You could have paid Heather for her notes.”
“This was the weak link.” (referring to Keira dropping AP Calc.)
“People are dropping like flies…”
“Theta is your friend.”
“Duck soup, huh?”
“I like to quiz… often.”
“They are the slave of the professor.” (graduate students)
“…but they had a last name.”
“It didn’t work. He was too loose.”
“They were strange… and dry as toast.”
“He was like Mr. Mystery Man.”
“Basket weaving has a great history if you think about it.”
10/11/07
Laura: “Don’t you feel lopsided?”
Fitz: “No.”
“Eh… you’re all crazy.”
“That’s the power of Calculus… or one of the powerful things about Calculus.”
Fitz: “Now that you know this and it’s so easy…”
Laura: “I don’t think it’s easy.”
“It’s a zinger on the multiple choice.”
“Omega is such a wonderful symbol.”
“Fun!”
“Very good, Nick Docet!... Douchette.”
“You’re perturbing the air mass.”
“A broccoli is a self-similar object.”
Nick: “The four you made was ridiculously sweet.”
Fitz: “Of course.”
“Yeah sure, you can use a calculator.”
“On second thought, no calculator…”
“I changed my mind… you can use a calculator.”
“There are sometimes where I can’t even do justice to the language.”
“I haven’t done this, so it will just be off the cuff.”
“In the language of mathematics, mixed with a little English…”
“Yeah… well… ok.”
10/1/07
“Rrrrabbbit…”
“Oh no, It’s rabbit, rabbit, rabbit.”
“I’m telling a story here.”
“At 5:00, when I arose, my first thoughts were of my daughter… going to her Greek class.
“Hold your enthusiasm.”
“I’ll give you a little… primer on chain rule.”
“I’ve told you, you can’t do this.”
“Kiera… you… uh rock.”
“I love, I’d really love… I think I’d like to teach Calculus.”
“And she said, ‘Keep dreaming, Calculus is my life.’”
10/2/07
“Remember, don’t drink and derive. All good mathematicians know that.”
“I’m on fire!”
“Jerk is what spills your soft drink.” (reading from the textbook)
“I’m just as confused. I’m confused… about it.
“I’m going to get Daniel up and dance to Aretha Franklin.”
“I want to get that into your lexicon of thinking.”
“Oh baby, we’re getting into it now!”
“Do you guys line dance? Do you go line dancing? (not a response to any previous conversation)
“You are just Calculus fools, that’s all you are.”
10/3/07
“If you didn’t get it, we’ll hang draw and quarter you tomorrow at dawn.”
“That was kind of flogging the problem.”
“Oh, uh, oh, oh, oh. You’re going to die when you see this.”
Meghan: “We don’t have that keen eye like you.”
Fitz: “I know, I know.”
“I smirk and laugh.”
“I’m laughing at myself here, no just… I’m not laughing at you.”
“I was just thinking inside the box, not outside the box.”
10/4/07
“I built you up an let you down,”
“…but I haven’t gone all the way inside.”
“Let’s build up slowly….”
“I beg your pardon? That was so fast, I didn’t hear a word.”
“It’s much more rhymey.” (Talking about the quotient rule)
“Like rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit- these have a life of their own- they get circulated among math teachers.”
“Arrr-eetha!”
10/5/07
“Lucky thirteen… lucky… thank you.”
“See what... see what you can do before I jump in and show all you how.”
“Either you are using a Calculator or you are not.”
10/8/07 – Honors Calculus
"It was where all the high mucky-mucks go together."
"It was kind of a travesty of justice."
"Math definitely does have a history - a long, rich history."
Fitz: "Math happens on levels."
Dylan: "Like sedentary rocks."
Fitz: "Or Dante's Inferno."
"Its hard for us mere mortals to understand the math that’s happening on those upper levels."
"Which I don't really find like, WOW, WOW, WOW!"
10/9/07 – Honors Calculus
"Shh, Shh, Shh! SHH! SHHHHH!"
"The theorem is an odd duck."
"You already know the answers to all these questions, so why don't you just be quiet."
10/10/07
David: “Can you do 35?”
Fitz: “I hope so.”
“You could have paid Heather for her notes.”
“This was the weak link.” (referring to Keira dropping AP Calc.)
“People are dropping like flies…”
“Theta is your friend.”
“Duck soup, huh?”
“I like to quiz… often.”
“They are the slave of the professor.” (graduate students)
“…but they had a last name.”
“It didn’t work. He was too loose.”
“They were strange… and dry as toast.”
“He was like Mr. Mystery Man.”
“Basket weaving has a great history if you think about it.”
10/11/07
Laura: “Don’t you feel lopsided?”
Fitz: “No.”
“Eh… you’re all crazy.”
“That’s the power of Calculus… or one of the powerful things about Calculus.”
Fitz: “Now that you know this and it’s so easy…”
Laura: “I don’t think it’s easy.”
“It’s a zinger on the multiple choice.”
“Omega is such a wonderful symbol.”
“Fun!”
“Very good, Nick Docet!... Douchette.”
“You’re perturbing the air mass.”
“A broccoli is a self-similar object.”
Nick: “The four you made was ridiculously sweet.”
Fitz: “Of course.”
Thursday, September 27, 2007
September 20th to September 27th
9/20/07 (Honors Calc.)
"Those are the exciting features of graphs."
"He got a tape - this is tapes instead of CDs - an instructional tape. He put the tape in, strapped the accordion on his chest, and drove with his knees. He learned to play accordion over the course of, I dunno, eight to ten years."
"I used to commute to Yarmouth every day... One day I managed to grade my students' multiple choice tests while driving before I even got to Brunswick... I shouldn't have told you that."
"You know how I feel about hats!"
9/21/07
“On the……………..3……………3C, I can’t remember what I did with this.”
“That’s a nebulous area.”
“You were just incomplete, as was most everyone else.”
“What happens when you take……oh…….oh no!…….They gave you one you can’t do!
“This is kind of dirty pool on the book’s part.”
“Remember Aretha Franklin? Chain, chain, chain, chain of fools!”
“What is this? Lunchtime?”
“This is what guys sit around, and do, and love.”
9/24/07
“This bothers me, that the chair is up.”
“That’s right. CALCULUS is going to give us the answer.”
“You’ll get so used to doing this, you’ll be doing it in your sleep.”
“You’re breaking up a little bit. Are you on a cell phone?”
“They mentioned it that we should figure out how to turn our phones off.”
“These are normal lines. I like to call them by their names.”
“…one of the few, unforunatly, recognized women in the 16, 17, 18th century.”
“I want to get fairly close to it. You HAVE to get fairly close to it,”
9/25/07
“Don’t leave that stone unturned.”
“Right, chain, chain, chain. I got to get that song on my computer…”
“It should be in the forefront…of...what you know.”
9/26/07
“…you muddy the waters for yourself.”
“That gives me this magic value, right here.”
“I don’t like S only because it looks like 5.”
“Well, this building isn’t moving.”
9/27/07
“Ughrauuahhh!!”
“Eh eh heh, I know.”
“You need to be able to do it in your sleep.”
"Those are the exciting features of graphs."
"He got a tape - this is tapes instead of CDs - an instructional tape. He put the tape in, strapped the accordion on his chest, and drove with his knees. He learned to play accordion over the course of, I dunno, eight to ten years."
"I used to commute to Yarmouth every day... One day I managed to grade my students' multiple choice tests while driving before I even got to Brunswick... I shouldn't have told you that."
"You know how I feel about hats!"
9/21/07
“On the……………..3……………3C, I can’t remember what I did with this.”
“That’s a nebulous area.”
“You were just incomplete, as was most everyone else.”
“What happens when you take……oh…….oh no!…….They gave you one you can’t do!
“This is kind of dirty pool on the book’s part.”
“Remember Aretha Franklin? Chain, chain, chain, chain of fools!”
“What is this? Lunchtime?”
“This is what guys sit around, and do, and love.”
9/24/07
“This bothers me, that the chair is up.”
“That’s right. CALCULUS is going to give us the answer.”
“You’ll get so used to doing this, you’ll be doing it in your sleep.”
“You’re breaking up a little bit. Are you on a cell phone?”
“They mentioned it that we should figure out how to turn our phones off.”
“These are normal lines. I like to call them by their names.”
“…one of the few, unforunatly, recognized women in the 16, 17, 18th century.”
“I want to get fairly close to it. You HAVE to get fairly close to it,”
9/25/07
“Don’t leave that stone unturned.”
“Right, chain, chain, chain. I got to get that song on my computer…”
“It should be in the forefront…of...what you know.”
9/26/07
“…you muddy the waters for yourself.”
“That gives me this magic value, right here.”
“I don’t like S only because it looks like 5.”
“Well, this building isn’t moving.”
9/27/07
“Ughrauuahhh!!”
“Eh eh heh, I know.”
“You need to be able to do it in your sleep.”
Monday, September 17, 2007
September 5th to September 17th
9/5/07
“I’ve really been cracking the whip on myself… and my wife.”
“The limit as 0 approaches… the limit of f(0) as x… the limit of f(x) approaches x…the limit of f(x) as x approaches 0…”
“My bad…”
“Remember I told you about my friend Charlie Head?… He has all his calculus in his head.”
“It’s like climbing stairs. You can go one step at a time, maybe two, but three and you’re going to stumble.”
“You really want to steal my thunder?"
9/6/07
“Here’s where the book…er…calculus…mathematics has a hard time.”
“I prefer to put a positive there, just so there’s no confusion.”
“…no boundaries, in other words, it goes on forever.”
“Here’s a small conundrum… a conundrum. It’s perplexing, puzzling.”
“Now I’m going to let the limit… happen.”
“I’m shortcutting the parsing process!”
9/7/07
“…intuition are like little leaps of faith… there’s a lot of that in calculus”
“If you’ve been well trained, which, by the way, I will do…”
“Words are important too, you don’t just use mathematical symbology all the time.”
“You believe what the calculator tells you, don’t you?”
“I just like putting the plus in front of it, just so there’s NO question.”
“Think of yourself ON the function- you have to think of that.”
“Large, large, large, large.”
“Everyone should pay attention to this, I think.”
“mmm… I’ve back myself into a corner here.”
“The yearbook lives and dies by its deadlines… its always lived, but…”
9/10/07
“…and then I’ll roll back and let you know what’s going on.”
“This is another way of looking at tangent, which I love.”
“Cool beans, huh?”
“They go away… free of charge.”
“No one likes an inequality with the symbols the wrong way.”
“…by virtue of what is called the sandwich theorem.”
“It was a gut response, a good response though.”
“This is smoke, hazy smoke.”
9/11/07
“Yeah, that little jag there is a little disconcerting.”
“Students who are not well educated think… and I know you are…”
“I said, ‘Oh my goodness!’”
“You’re going to die when you see this one.”
“Divided by theta? No way!”
“Well, you are far off, but you got the right concept.”
9/12/07
“Having already drawren it…”
“There is no subtlety.”
“You can’t steal my thunder.”
“You remember my good old… well, my friend, Leonard Elver.”
9/13/07
“Yes, because I can fill the hole.”
“If you can fill the hole with a point…”
“There’s a hole here and a hole there and you move one up and down and you can fill one.”
“What the heck is potent rain!?”
“I guess it’s a lot of big rain.”
You’re not thinking… you’re not thinking here.”
9/17/07
“It was very easy to give my daughter away in front of a hundred thirty, hundred forty people.”
“This one’s very easy because it’s a long sort of strung out… picture.”
“If you’ve done this a couple or three times, like you are…”
“When you strip away the parenthesis, a nice thing happens.”
“This is kind of a challenge.” (Referring to (6-6)/n)
“This is a chicken and egg problem.”
“…and I will show you this, you’ll love it.”
“”Except for zero, except for zero, except for zero.”
“Chain, chain, chain… y’all know Aretha Franklin?”
“We can chain, chain, chain, and get up and bogey.”
“We both turned our heads to each other and said, ‘Who the ____ is that!?’”
“I’ve really been cracking the whip on myself… and my wife.”
“The limit as 0 approaches… the limit of f(0) as x… the limit of f(x) approaches x…the limit of f(x) as x approaches 0…”
“My bad…”
“Remember I told you about my friend Charlie Head?… He has all his calculus in his head.”
“It’s like climbing stairs. You can go one step at a time, maybe two, but three and you’re going to stumble.”
“You really want to steal my thunder?"
9/6/07
“Here’s where the book…er…calculus…mathematics has a hard time.”
“I prefer to put a positive there, just so there’s no confusion.”
“…no boundaries, in other words, it goes on forever.”
“Here’s a small conundrum… a conundrum. It’s perplexing, puzzling.”
“Now I’m going to let the limit… happen.”
“I’m shortcutting the parsing process!”
9/7/07
“…intuition are like little leaps of faith… there’s a lot of that in calculus”
“If you’ve been well trained, which, by the way, I will do…”
“Words are important too, you don’t just use mathematical symbology all the time.”
“You believe what the calculator tells you, don’t you?”
“I just like putting the plus in front of it, just so there’s NO question.”
“Think of yourself ON the function- you have to think of that.”
“Large, large, large, large.”
“Everyone should pay attention to this, I think.”
“mmm… I’ve back myself into a corner here.”
“The yearbook lives and dies by its deadlines… its always lived, but…”
9/10/07
“…and then I’ll roll back and let you know what’s going on.”
“This is another way of looking at tangent, which I love.”
“Cool beans, huh?”
“They go away… free of charge.”
“No one likes an inequality with the symbols the wrong way.”
“…by virtue of what is called the sandwich theorem.”
“It was a gut response, a good response though.”
“This is smoke, hazy smoke.”
9/11/07
“Yeah, that little jag there is a little disconcerting.”
“Students who are not well educated think… and I know you are…”
“I said, ‘Oh my goodness!’”
“You’re going to die when you see this one.”
“Divided by theta? No way!”
“Well, you are far off, but you got the right concept.”
9/12/07
“Having already drawren it…”
“There is no subtlety.”
“You can’t steal my thunder.”
“You remember my good old… well, my friend, Leonard Elver.”
9/13/07
“Yes, because I can fill the hole.”
“If you can fill the hole with a point…”
“There’s a hole here and a hole there and you move one up and down and you can fill one.”
“What the heck is potent rain!?”
“I guess it’s a lot of big rain.”
You’re not thinking… you’re not thinking here.”
9/17/07
“It was very easy to give my daughter away in front of a hundred thirty, hundred forty people.”
“This one’s very easy because it’s a long sort of strung out… picture.”
“If you’ve done this a couple or three times, like you are…”
“When you strip away the parenthesis, a nice thing happens.”
“This is kind of a challenge.” (Referring to (6-6)/n)
“This is a chicken and egg problem.”
“…and I will show you this, you’ll love it.”
“”Except for zero, except for zero, except for zero.”
“Chain, chain, chain… y’all know Aretha Franklin?”
“We can chain, chain, chain, and get up and bogey.”
“We both turned our heads to each other and said, ‘Who the ____ is that!?’”
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