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

Final count in the two Mathematical Method 1 classes: 27 in mine and 17 in David’s. We compared class lists and David said that all the students in his list were showing up in his class, and that none of the people attending mine are in his class list.

Miss Marilet from the Registrar’s office said that the students were requesting for my class though. I guess there has been some word that has trickled down from those who took my Trig App class last term, even if I did fail forty percent of my class.

Couple that with the fact that this is the first time David is teaching the freshmen, so none of them have any prior experience with the way he teaches.

What I already warned them about though is that some of them will have to move to David’s class if there is a large difference in the class sizes. We all agreed (including the Registrar’s Office) that this will start on the Friday quiz though, after I give them the final topic on Thursday which is part of the coverage.

Since the quiz will only take the first half of the class that means that the five students who will transfer will have their first taste of David’s lecture on Friday.

I convinced David (and Aldous, the other teacher in Trig App) to have the quiz during the first half of the class because if it is held in the second half of the class like they suggested, some of the students will not attend but would rather study and show up late. Others may show up, but will not be listening again because they’d rather study.

Besides, I’ve never done that in any of my classes. What do we discuss a few minutes before a quiz? Do we have an entirely new lesson? Should I give some final pointers? I’m not used to the idea.

In my Trig App and mechanics classes yesterday I announced their respective quizzes on Thursday. It makes the coverage of both very short (up to the definition of radian measure for Trig App and motion in one dimension before free fall in mechanics), but I’m hoping that when they get high scores in these quizzes it makes them confident enough to see the succeeding topics as not so difficult at the subjects’ not so deserved reputation.

I had to explain to them about submitting blank test booklets up to the day before the test, and to write their names on the outer back cover instead of in front. Since I required this for three of my classes though I had to tell them to write the name of the subject in the blank space provided in front so I could separate the booklets for the different subjects.

After all, I have some students who are in more than one of those three classes, and at least one who is in all three. Good thing those students have not complained about the quizzes being all within forty-eight hours of each other hampering their review time.

I also had the first recitation-slash-board work in Trig App, which I said my students last term (and repeating the same course) would recognize at the token review for the upcoming quiz. Since that class had only 20 students, I was able to call everyone to the board. Only one student, it turned out, was absent for that day.

And there’s the bell. Class dismissed for today.