So this is a hundreds chart.  Yes, like you saw in elementary school, but waaaaaaay better.  1 is in the upper left hand corner and 100 in in the lower right hand corner.  The colors totally have meaning!

I don't want to ruin the surprise for anyone so I will post the meaning later.

My mother is knitting me my very own version of this.  I am so excited!

So, these make me happy.  Two places that make me just feel, "ahhhh, so, it is good." This feeling is one of the best feelings!

Other super amazing feelings:  (to be added to as I think of them.... feel free to suggest)

     ~"This is sooooooooo FUN, (possibly embarrassing) and Silly and I am going to keep doing it because I want to!"

     ~"What is going on?... I am laughing but I am not sure why..... but seriously what is going on?"

     ~ "Ummmm what?.... I love you but what???"  (so fun to feel like this.... crazy as it seems)

Be amazing!


~Be more than you thought you could be.

~Be more than anyone expects.

~Be kinder that you think you can be.

~Be thoughtful.

~Be the person you want to be friends with.

~Be the person you hope will be there if you ever need someone.

~Just be amazing.... whatever that means to you.

Goats on top of things... that's where they like to be.

So, I am seriously talking to you about goats standing on things....


I heard a podcast a few years back about a guy who was driving along through the countryside.  At some point he glanced out the window saw a goat standing on top of a cow.

Wait, What?...
He pulled over to be sure of what he saw, because that is crazy, right?

As he gazed out into the field he was passing he saw, that's right, a goat standing on the back of a cow.  And in fact the cow was just happily grazing on the grass in the field.  he watched for a while longer and because nothing changed he decided he needed to get back in his car and just keep driving.

I LOVE this!!!!!!!

Because I love this so much, I have done my own "google image research" on this subject and here is what I have found:



GOATS love standing up on stuff:

So, I am seriously taking with you about homework in middle school:

I find this funny.  I am not sure everyone will find it as amazing as I do but, as a middle school math teacher, I have students ask me almost daily, "can I do extra credit to raise my grade?"

The answer is "NO"
But... there are options.

If you do not want to do the assignment I gave you, you can instead do any of the following for full credit on any assignment you choose:

• Master Kung Fu
• Switch religions for a week (and practice all parts of your new religion) and report back to me what it was like and how it did of did not change your perspective on the world.
• Wear a fake mustache, without mentioning it to anyone, for 24 hours (see above about reporting back on the results)
• End world hunger
• Find your nemesis, earn their trust, then turn them to your way of thinking
• Find the next unknown digit of Pi.
• *suggest something to equal caliber*

Thank you to the picture below for my inspiration :)

SO, I am seriously going to tell you the "Things I said this week":

"So you can remember that two angels are complimentary if they make a 90 degree angle because giving a compliment is the 'right' thing to do ;)"

"Of course you can put an invisible one in front of a variable or make a regular number into a fraction with an invisible one in the denominator:
         5/1 = 5
            x = 1x

"We don't often really write the one because it looks awkward, and it is like asking for one single pencil, people will know what you mean but they will think you don't speak Math as your first language."

"You can also add an invisible zero to anything you like... but once again:
         x = 5
1x + 0 = 5

"...it is kind of like saying "can I borrow one single pencil and nothing," sure the person will probably let you borrow a pencil but they might wonder what you are really planning to do with it."



"Please stop drawing on Sally's paper, she doesn't seem to like it."

So... it has been a while.

I teach middle school Mathematics, also called Maths.
What a crazy thing to decide to do with your life? I know right? (my students made me say that... they didn't but it is definitely their fault.  It is a catchy phrase....
"I know, Right?")

Teaching is rewarding (my upbringing made me say that)
Teaching is fulfilling (I think my grandmother told me that)
Teaching is hilarious (that one is all me)
Teaching is ridiculous (also all me)

I am positive that my readers have heard someone say those first two.  Teaching is a rewarding and fulfilling career.  Okay, that is true, however I am not sure I would have stuck with it so long if it were not for the hilarity and ridiculousness of my daily interactions.

<<Okay, okay, okay I know that I have no followers... that is just not nearly as funny if there is not someone out there reading>>>>  Sheesh*  talking to myself is funny in an entirely different way and .... I'm not going there.

So far this year i have made up the following terms and use them as official vocabulary:
Mathemagical
The invisible one
The invisible zero
Lonely numbers
Numbers with friends