"That's so isosceles!" was a constant phrase I heard this year in class. During a lesson about classifying triangles one of my classes just thought the word isosceles was the coolest word ever-so later on in the year when they would learn something cool--they would say, "That's so isosceles!". Well that cracked me up first of all, but I wanted them to not only remember the name, but what it meant. So when they would say that I would say, "which is????" and they would respond by saying "Two congruent sides!" So now you know where this crazy blog name came from.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
What's in a name?
"That's so isosceles!" was a constant phrase I heard this year in class. During a lesson about classifying triangles one of my classes just thought the word isosceles was the coolest word ever-so later on in the year when they would learn something cool--they would say, "That's so isosceles!". Well that cracked me up first of all, but I wanted them to not only remember the name, but what it meant. So when they would say that I would say, "which is????" and they would respond by saying "Two congruent sides!" So now you know where this crazy blog name came from.
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ReplyDeleteThat is so funny! I love it! I have been introducing the coordinate system lately and found that 'Descartes got inspired to develop plot functions as ordered pairs: by observing a fly on his room’s ceiling while recuperating from an illness.' - students enjoyed the bit of trivia I found on the blog math teacher life
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