Finally!

All right, so I finally started a blog. I am not doing this because everybody has been bugging me too. I found out that "Google Calendar" and "Google Documents & Spreadsheets" will let me post assignments and handouts for my students on the web. But I needed a place to pull them all together and organize them. So, I created a blog under the name SCSMathTeacher and made class pages for all of my classes. They are all linked to calendars for each class that will be updated weekly with assignments. I have been wanting to get this stuff online so that no student has the excuse "but I didn't know what the assignment was" and so that the parents of students have a better chance of keeping up.

Once I got done with that, I realized that it would be nice to have a place to record all of the really funny things that my students say. And since the Beta version of Blogger has made it so easy to create, customize, and maintain a blog, I figured, "Why not?" But then I had this great dilemma--what should I name my blog? Nothing seemed to work at first. My original thought was "i is a number" but that seemed to hurt my husband's grammar sensibilities. (He quipped that next I would insist the "e" is a number.) So I ditched that one and searched the web for math quotations. (Isn't Google great!) I found the Erdös quote and knew it was perfect. Coffee and theorems--I have never been far from one of them since I started college. Frequently both were close at hand as I tried to embody Erdös's assertion. To be honest, I'm not sure which I like more.