#algebra assignment

[lexosaurus]

heyyy a fellow math teacher! 🤝

I'm actually not a math teacher! I do special ed. I currently do most of the math inclusion support at the school, so between my actual classes and support from learning center/skill development hours and study hall hours, I'm doing everything from sub-separate Intro to Algebra all the way up to Pre-Calculus.

So my students know me as "the math lady" and they joke whenever they see me out of the math hallway that I've breached containment or "escaped [my] dungeon!" It's pretty funny!

I absolutely love working with the math department though! They are some of the best people in this entire school. Unsurprisingly, they're probably the department that the sped department is the closest with! They're so deeply passionate about public education and setting up the students for the best success possible after high school, and they really do their best to stand up against a lot of the silly top-down level grade inflation types of things happening within district admin right now! So yeah, can't hype these math ladies up enough! They go so above and beyond for the students, and it's unfortunate that they're some of the most underappreciated teachers cuz god damn these kids have nooooo clue how much this group of women care about them!

[stellerssong]

🍓🍄🌿 (picked the last one to continue with the plant/natural world theme honestly)

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?

the need to have in hand the stories i’d been wanting to read my entire life finally hit critical mass and overturned the debilitating social anxiety/OCD magical thinking that told me i would be pelted with eggs and rotten fruit for daring to inflict my thoughts (and thots) upon other residents of the internet. only took 25 years, folks! prior to this i was simply trying to cram all of my nascent fanned fiction into the tags field of random posts on tumblr dot edu, which i’m sure was not annoying AT ALL for anyone making the posts that came under my fire.

now obviously i do not have that problem and i tag things normally.

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

eurydice hadestown is very handy with quick mental math and its applications, i.e. calculating tips, making change, emergency budgeting, guesstimating prices, etc. orpheus hadestown can subdivide ONLY in the context of musical time signatures and only ever passed a math class beyond algebra 2 because he has big sad eyes and his teachers felt bad that he was clearly trying really hard. this is perpetually baffling to eurydice, who is just like "if you tip 15% it’s 10% of the bill plus half of that, so you just move the decimal up a place and then divide that number by two and then add them and—" and orpheus is like no no that’s already too many steps. and she’s like well what do you just not tip your barista because it’s too many steps? asshole? and he’s like of course not! i always tip two dollars. and she’s like on a four dollar coffee? that’s a 50% tip?? and he’s like well no that one was $4.38, see, it’s just easier to not have to do the math. and she’s like [screams]

for orpheus’ part, he can diagram chord progressions to an extent that causes eurydice to lapse into a defensive coma, but of course that has no practical applications.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity

no, YOU give ME some advice on writer’s block and low creativity!!!

i dunno, man, all the stuff that works for me is stuff that’s been said more eloquently elsewhere. if you’ve written one sentence that’s a sentence that didn’t exist before and therefore you have increased the thing. the time will pass anyway so you may as well pass it making something. sometimes you just need to look at another project, another fandom, another creative hobby, a tree, instead of your current project. you’re allowed to just think about it if thinking about it is all you have the heart to do. it’s easy to mistake the plateau before leveling up for stagnation, and it’s easy to mistake the upward climb for rotting and crumbling into dust.

you’re always improving. every day you wake up and see with your eyes and hear with your ears and think about the world around you, you’re banking sense-impressions and test-running dialog and feeling emotions that might one day find their way into a project. and this too is writing, in its way.

ask meme

[iluvvaporeon]

ignore how he didn't have a tail before i forgot to add one

[snixx]

forced myself to wake up and leave my warm cozy blanky at 3:30 am in the winter to speedrun my syllabus because they gave us 12 hours to prep for our endsem are yall proud of me

[royalarms]

happy 8th birthday to ffxv 🥺

[dash-web]

I want to draw more but got too much math to do. sigh

[newsies-united]

i liked (most of) my teachers better this year but why did this year suck more academically. get me out of here june 10 cannot come fast enough

[arathejedi394]

i think it says something that in my Armenian cousins GC my little brother sent a bunch of headlines about trump's administration activity lately and he tagged me specifically

yes he could have sent all those articles by themselves. did he do that? no. no, he tagged me in the middle of sending all those links. am I the political cousin? yes. yes, I am.

[tomorrowillbeyou]

started packing 4 the move tonight i have 2 say it is so much easier when u keep ur room organised WAOW

[glitchedrabbit]

my Rab mask has been upgraded...and it's heavier too..

BUT!

it has glowing eyes neow :)

[chatter-crow]

idk how i went this long without learning how to factor

[queer-reader-07]

everytime i remember that math majors exist i wonder if they're even truly human because i just had to walk in circles around my room because i was getting too frustrated doing basic algebra

[gods-favorite-autistic]

I take a small bit of pride in the idea that tiny me would be just a bit horrified by me now

[clonewarsahsoka]

I WANT TO DO MATH BUT TODAY I NEED TO DO READINGS BECAUSE THATS DUE SOONERRRRRRRR

[clarabowmp3]

girls when the math is abstract and also never-ending

[sevenfactorial]

Maybe I should have just told the rest of the class what should happen at the end of the homework problem instead of sending a screenshot of my fully detailed scrap work. But that part was like, a 9th of my write up for that problem so I don't feel too bad about it