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

First, I have made a “mirror” site for my student edition, since I found out that just in the past week that I’ve used it, the site has been down at least three times, delaying my upload for that day.

Somehow I like the host of the duplicate better. I don’t know why. It’s {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Or maybe I do know why, but I’m in denial.

On Day Five of Week Four in Term One of the new school year, I gave my Mathematical Methods One class their third quiz. Since the coverage of this was only four types of word problems I gave them three of each. But as usual with rushing quizzes (although I prepared this one the day before) I realized belatedly - even though I shouldn’t have, coming up with the question from scratch – that one of the problems related with work required a quadratic solution, or one that has two degrees in the exponent of the single variable.

Instead of writing down a completely new question on the board, I just typed it out, copied and pasted it ten times on the same page, printed it thrice and cut it up for inclusion in their test booklet.

Having two pieces of paper they could potentially pass around with crib notes seemed at the time to be the lesser evil to writing the whole question on the board with my back turned to them while they could freely whisper about how to solve it among themselves.

Some of the students also approached me about a type of problem in the exercises from the textbook that we did not discuss, concerning work with one of the laborers working for a certain time alone before another joins in.

And I thought both types would be among the even and odd numbered problems, because odd are those with the answers in the back. I then deliberately chose the even numbered ones to solve in class.

So I will have to get other sources for those problems then, and leave the odd numbered ones for their own practice so they can have verification.

On the first day of the fifth week of classes, in MM1 we started with quadratic equations (those of degree two exponent in one variable) but I had to leave after discussing factoring and perfect squares and dismiss them early because I still had to prepare the exam for Differential Equations and I didn’t have time before class earlier.

I rode over with my cousin and we only got to school around fifteen minutes before my first class started.

Session 625’s buck stops here. For now, class dismissed.