square root of 36287?

like every tuesday night i was preparing the lesson for tomorrow's class. i checked the math syllabus and saw that the chapter i was to teach them was "Squares and Square roots". then i realised that they can't do square roots other than the few common numbers.. and it's not just that, there is also trigonometry which takes up a whole quarter of maths.

those kids can't do the math that we learn(and complain about) in school. not because they're not intelligent, but because they don't have, and probably never will have, scientific calculators.

they deserve so much more, and they can do so much more... but they lack the resources.

and that saddens me so.

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isabel is pleased

"i didn't wash the seashells i got you from the beach.... so that you could smell them."

ingo

"the last time we went swimming

the sea stood up and hugged you

as though you were responsible

for keeping it blue"