So, one of my Geometry students who has some of the worst English grammar the class has ever heard has become famous for his eclectic rhetoric. I told him I would write a book on him one day. Instead, here is a blog.
Algebra (verb)
to correctly solve a math problem using algebra
"Mrs. Scanlon, did I algebra it?"
Math (also a verb)
to tactically* and correctly solve a math related problem
"Mrs. Scanlon, I mathed that word problem so good!"
"Did I math it correctly?"
Tactical
cool, swag, awesome (I'm actually still not sure of the true definition).
"That sweater is tactical."
"Mrs. Scanlon, is your baby tactical yet?"
Carl (noun)
In reference to the perpendicular bisector in a circle that is hard to refer to in every day conversation. Hence, Carl came into being. Carl stands for Crazy Abstract Ridiculous Line (which was an afterthought to the original name). (The picture is terrible, but you get the idea).
At first I resisted the new vocabulary, but now it is a part of our class as much as the student we tagged as "coplanar" because he complains a lot, and the way they make fun of my New York mannerisms down here in Tennessee. So what if I thought Ingles was a Spanish store. So what if all my students thought I was a new student at school last year. The important thing is that at the end of the day, I have "repeated myself so much that they cannot get me out of their head" (a quote from one of my charmers), and now they know Geometry whether they wanted to or not.
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