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Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more. Just for Fun You are currently using the Homework With Text Formatting page type. This is an old page type with limited formatting options. We would recommend switching to the Enhanced Text page, a more advanced page type with many more options. Click here for more information on the different page types. Please note: You may continue to use this page type if you desire. <P>This page contains favorite quotes, math humor, and other miscellaneous fun items.</P> <P><STRONG><U>Quotes</U></STRONG></P> <P>Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.--William Butler Yeats</P> <P>It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.--Descartes</P> <P>In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.--Johann von Neumann</P> <P>Character is much easier kept than recovered.--Thomas Paine</P> <P>The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.--William Safire </P> <P>There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills</P> <P>Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.--Les Brown</P> <P><STRONG><U>Math Humor</U></STRONG></P> <P>There are 10 types of people in the world--those who understand binary and those who don't.</P> <P>Without geometry, life is pointless.</P> <P>Don't put Descartes before the horse.</P> <P>Trigonometry is a SINE of the times.</P> <P> </P> <P>The Spring 2007 Math IV Class found this poem quite amusing.</P> <P align=center>Arithmetic<BR>Carl Sandburg</P> <P>Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.</P> <P>Arithmetic tells you how many you lose or win if you know how many you had before you lost or won. <P>Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven - or five six bundle of sticks. <P>Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. <P>Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start all over and try again and see how it comes out this time. <P>If you take a number and double it and double it again and double it a few more times, the number gets bigger and bigger and goes higher and higher and only arithmetic can tell you what the number is when you decide to quit doubling. <P>Arithmetic is where you have to multiply - and you carry the multiplication table in your head and hope you won't lose it. <P>If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad, and you eat one and a striped zebra with streaks all over him eats the other, how many animal crackers will you have if somebody offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix? <P>If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is better in arithmetic, you or your mother? <P> </P> Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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