Funny/Embarrassing thing happened to me today...
During first period, I was teaching my Algebra class about functions, we talked a little about domain & range and then I went into explaining f(x). Everything was going great until one of the times I went to say "function" I did not pronounce the n quite so clearly. I of course realized it, and TRIED to continue teaching, but one particular group of students started giggling. As soon as the kids started giggling I had to stop and kind of regroup before moving on. The BEST part was that the Assistant Principal happened to be sitting at my desk doing one of his regular "pop-in" observations. I was of course REALLY embarrassed and I am sure that my face was BRIGHT red! I just looked up, he gave me a funny little smile and then I continued teaching as if nothing happened. Needless to say it didn't take very long for the other teachers on my team to find out about it and have a good laugh/give me a hard time.
Fortunately, when I saw the Assistant Principal later we were able to joke about it as well! I saw him in the hallway during lunch. He mentioned that he hadn't done much work with "f of x" lately, but that when he was in school "they were called functions!" The jokes of course continued through out the rest of the day as other teachers around the school heard about my lovely little blunder!
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