Agnes by Tony Cochran for October 22, 2014

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 10 years ago

    Math is not quite so amenable to being pop-candied, or permeating the therapized but still arithmaphobic modern culture….But Agnes is suspicious anyway…I mean, who IS this Fibonacci guy, and why does he have his own numbers?

    And if it’s all supposed to be so darn factual, why does it have variables??

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    Aaberon  about 10 years ago

    After all these years of reading Agnes, I perceive her as a basically sweet kid who just kinda plays big-shot in the privacy of the company of her only friend.

    So the constant run-in with the teacher and argumentative attitude: Is it to get attention or is it really anger-management issues?

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    J Short  about 10 years ago

    The history book? No wonder why things just didn’t add up.

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    gzitver  about 10 years ago

    In all my years of schooling, I never recall a student being asked to read aloud a passage from a math book.

    And does that teacher ever ask anyone except Agnes to read aloud? After years of back-talk, you’d think she’d know better. As a pop psychologist, I wonder if she has some unresolved issues.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  about 10 years ago

    No principal visit?Agnes is slipping

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  about 10 years ago

    My favorite is that negative one has three square roots, commonly known as i, j, k and that any one squared is negative one, i times j is k, j times k is i, i times k is negative j, et cetera.

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