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Date: 10 February 2008 21:17:21
In a conversation about the untidiness of teenagers' bedrooms (a necessary part of an algebra lesson, you'll understand), I asked the librarian how many of the class would, in her opinion, have untidy rooms. She commented that she thought it would be about half the girls and almost all of the boys.
Immediately one of the lads piped up, in all earnestness, "Isn't that rather sexist, Miss? I've noticed that all women are really sexist like that!" :o)
In a conversation about the approachability of algebra, I was pointing out to the class that they'd actually been doing algebra since they were really quite tiny, it had just never been explicitly pointed out at such. They'd done calculations where the missing number was represented by a square (into which they wrote their answer). I went on to say that they now used letters "because you're all growed up now and it's a more growed up way of doing it".
From the front row, a voice said, in a tone of disapproval, "Don't you think, Miss, that seeing as you're a teacher you ought to use proper English?"
"Why, J, did I say something incorrect? What should it be?"
"Grew, Miss. It should be 'all grew up'"