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.”

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!?’”