Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Going back to my Trigonometry class last Friday, I wrote the identities on the right side of the board (for the sake of my later class), and the twelve items we were to solve in the middle board.

But since they took their time computing for the scores they needed to pass the course, I warned them that whatever problems we did not get to discuss would become their assignment.

There were four types of problems, and instead of tackling them in sequence I solved one of each type first. After that, I asked them which ones they wanted “us” to answer next.

It was after one of the problems, when I asked if there were any questions ABOUT THE SOLUTION, that Deiv raised his hand again.

He did not have a question about the problem, but about our exam on Friday. He said they have their finals in Algebra on that day also (early, since Maila is leaving for another country by course card day). So he asked that I move the exam to next week.

I told him I could not do that because it is the thirteenth week of classes, when quizzes are not allowed anymore. Their choices are either Tuesday this week (which his classmates protested to also) or not to have the exam anymore, and just include the coverage in the finals (which Dudley, among others, did not want either).

So even though I gave them choices that were not choices at all, we all still came to the same agreement.

As for the problems we solved on that day, the students thought they had all detected all the difficult ones for us to solve instead of for them to bring home (this included the verification and solving for half an angle or double an angle given one trigonometric function of the angle and the quadrant its terminal side was on). But they left out one, solving for the tangent of seven times pi over twelve radians using half angles.

For the second (1pm) class, I did not have time to check all of their papers, so I just told them I’d return them the succeeding week (knowing they would have gotten some news from their classmates in the previous class).

Again I let them copy everything written on the board first before we discussed them (reminding them that the right side was first, going to the left). It helped that the items were not in sequence anyway.

I also gave them the same option as the other class, and we ended up with two out of three problems similar for their assignment, meaning if they were alert they could copy the third one from the other class’s notes (and vice versa).

I'll stop here for now. There’s still Friday afternoon’s academic advising to relate, Monday’s class with the similar class standings to compute, as well as yesterday's Trigonometry class with discussing the last of the identities, the review slash graded recitation for the exam on Friday (in both classes), and finally finishing the checking the second quiz of the second class and returning them. That's a lot to catch up on. Class dismissed.