Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

In the second meeting of my Mathematical Methods One class for the third week of the first term, we discussed rational expressions.

I taught them how to simplify and operate on polynomials in fractional form, including how to get the least common denominator.

From checking the exercises I gave afterwards, I realized that the students were still committing the same mistakes of cancelling out from the numerator and the denominator commor terms that are added, not multiplied, which is the only allowable case.

I also noticed that the high school math championship winner, who got perfect in the first quiz, was starting to get noisy, most likely out of the boredom from the pace and relative simplicity of the lesson. But we had not created a formal policy yet about exempting him (and others like him) from attending the basic classes, so I thought of just asking him to get a copy of the textbook and allowing him to answer exercises from the succeeding topics as an advanced
incentive.

That way, the choice was still up to him to show up in class or prefer to be doing something else more worthy of his time.

He went looking for a textbook immediately afterwards, which is good.

In my Engineering Computer Aided Drawing and Design class afterwards, we couldn't start with the prescribed (by me and the computer lab technician) software yet, because the CPUs in the lab were still to be formatted and reinstalled with educational programs.

But the net was still up, so just like in the first activity of the Graphics One classes two years ago, I just had them search the web for answers to particular questions related to the application and features of the software we are going to use.

Session 1159 has not been reformatted. Class dismissed.