Summer Vacation

Enjoy oversleep and relaxation,
Enjoy staying with your family members,
Enjoy being with your friends,
Enjoy listening your faverite music, and reading your desired books,
Most of all, enjoy the beauty of the nature and the human being, ...

A Copy of My Email to Math Teachers

Hi, wonderful math teachers, the 2005-2006 school year comes to an end, I'd like to thank you for your hard work and dedication to the math department. We've made a good team.

For the past 10 months, you posted pacing calendars, planned hundreds of lessons, graded projects, tests, and quizzes, distributed and collected books, made the delinquency book list, and volunteered to help the department and school. You've kept parents informed of their children's progress and deficiencies. Although we are not happy with our Math A Regents Exam result, we will improve it next year and make New Dorp a better school. I firmly believe that together we are capable of bringing our students to the next level.

To make you laugh, click the following shortcut:
http://newdorpmath.blogspot.com/2006/05/do-you-want-to-laugh-after-ap-calculus.html

I hope you have a wonderful summer!

Graduation Day

It was the happiest day of the school year for graduates, parents, teachers, and administrators. Their smiles were visible. All the speakers made wonderful speeches. The weather was very cooperative although the weather forecast predicted that it would rain. The sunshine got stronger and stronger, and we all got suntanned. Look at the pictures, do you hear the cheering blast?

MIT Single Variable Calculus Course

Students asked me how college calculus is different from AP calculus.

Please click the following shortcut to view MIT single variavle Calculus course description, Syllabus, Lecture Notes, RecitationsNotes, Assignments, and Exams:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-01Fall2003/CourseHome/index.htm

Yearbook for Class 2006

Some of the seniors cannot afford to buy the yearbooks; others have paid for the yearbooks but for some reason, have yet not received them. They want to know what I wrote for them this year. So I now post what I wrote for them in the yearbook here:

I have truly enjoyed working with you and watching you grow up academically and personally. You have delighted me with your many achievements in and out of class. You have shared your disappointments as well as the good times of your lives. You have impressed me by demanding the program change. You have made me laugh - a lot - with your marvelous senses of humor. You have been a special group to me so I was thrilled, but stunned, by the fact that you will soon graduate from New Dorp High School. I want all of you to have good lives. Good luck, good health, success, and happiness. I wish you all good things. May those big dreams come true.

My 2006 Math & Science Institute Luncheon Speech

Ms. DeAngelis, Assistant Principals, Teachers, and especially Institute Graduates, on this day of celebration, you are all happy and fulfilled. You feel just proud of your accomplishments to date.

A few words of recognition are due to those who have helped make today’s event possible. To Ms. DeAngelis, I thank you for the wisdom and constant support you have provided. To Assistant Principals, I thank you for offering rigorous courses as well as unselfish helps. To teachers, I gratefully acknowledge your dedication, and caring, and for times, you have challenged our students to reach their full potentials. To Mrs. Barnett, I thank you for your hard work and commitment to the institute. To you, the institute graduates, you are the reason why we are here. You have brought the distinction to yourself, your family, and your school. Congratulations!

You will leave us soon.
I will miss you very, very, …, very much.
I will miss the moment when you demanded me to change your program. I will miss the moment when we danced with slopes, and sang calculus songs with holiday melodies. Asaf, you sang too loudly but you had a good voice, more expresive tham the math formula.
I will miss the Senior Reversal Day.Surit made me became a beautiful blonde high school student.
I will miss your sweet smile after you solved a tough problem, got a good grade, or received an award.
I will miss your shining eyes exploring knowledge and searching for truth.
I will miss the numerous small talks about your happiness, personal or family problems, and mostly your dreams.
I will miss your shows. In my eyes, your shows are better than the ones on Broadway.

So after you leave New Dorp, please stay in touch!

To express my best wish to you, let me quote what Mark Twain wrote,

“Always work like you don’t need money. Always fall in love like you’ve never hurt. Always dance like nobody is watching. And always, …., always live like it’s heaven on the earth.”

Again, congratulations, and thank you for letting me be part of your life.