ATTENTION PARENTS
Parent conferences this week are by email only with no appointment necessary.
JUST TO BE SURE ...
For this class, the standards of curriculum rigor that have been in place for decades are not subject to meddling by anyone AT ALL.
"Surveillance" cameras installed in this classroom will be a welcome new weapon for fighting ignorance. Viewers will be enlightened.
NOTICE TO PARENTS
Please pay attention to the details in your copy of the statement you signed for your child's first day in Mr. Rogers's class. Nowhere in the statement is Google Classroom mentioned. "Homework & Events" are accessed via the link to the left. Thank you for your kind coorperation in this matter.
APPROVED TUTORS
Mr. Glenn (318) 348-4612
Mr. Smith (318) 376-9957
Ms. Stephenson (318) 787-1022
For the welfare of the cubs, zoo scientists carefully control the behavior of mama bears and papa bears.
Color-code for homework assignments:
Red: Calculus
Black: Pre-Calculus
Blue: Algebra II
Green: All classes
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Problem 1 can be worked by Method A, Method B, and Method C.
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Problem 2 can be worked by Method C, Method D, and Method E. |
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Because time allows the teaching of only one method, the teacher insists that the students learn Supermethod C to work both problems.
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Parents and tutors complain that the teacher is too authoritarian citing the evidence that, although there are multiple methods for solving each problem, the teacher insists that students "do it his way” by Method C.
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A parable about ignorance and arrogance is at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant.
From the parable
The blind men see each problem. The teacher sees the elephant.
Shouldn't the students learn to see the elephant, too?
Mathematics is one of the two things we know in this universe about any other universe.--James R. Rogers
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture ....--Bertrand Russell
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.--Albert Einstein
... the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics ....--Roger Bacon
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.--Carl Friedrich Gauss
While scientists regard mathematics as mere measure for physical phenomena, pure mathematicians regard physical phenomena as mere symbols for mathematical ideas.--James R. Rogers
The science of pure mathematics ... may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.--Alfred North Whitehead
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.--Robert A. Heinlein
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics ....--Plato
... there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.--G. H. Hardy
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.--Roger Bacon
Pure mathematics--may it never be of any use to anyone.--Henry Smith
By divine right mathematics is the queen of thought, and brought to us by her twin bearers science and symbol, she comes true and elegant and absolute into our minds.--James R. Rogers
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.--Albert Einstein
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.--Stendhal
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.--S. Gudder
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.--Aristotle
In mathematics you don't understand things; you just get used to them.--John von Neumann
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.--Bertrand Russell
Math is like love--a simple idea--but it can get complicated.--Anonymous
Calculus math makes the back of my neck hot.--Mrs. James R. Rogers
Math is like learning a foreign language, Marcie. No matter what you say, it's going to be wrong anyway!--Peppermint Patty in Peanuts by Charles Schulz
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.--Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do evil.--a good man
FUEL + OXYGEN + HEAT = DESTRUCTION
AND
IGNORANCE + ARROGANCE + POWER = DESTRUCTION