Introduction to a new learning relationship

Dear students,

This is our new anti H1N1 tool for doing math whatever the circumstances. I'm sure none of you would have dreamed of a prolonged math famine so your friendly neighbourhood math department as decided to rise to the challenge and provide you with you favourite intellectual food: Math homework and assignments. Don’t you love us?

We hope you'll be able to survive without being in contact with our direct power of “symbolised communications” and want to assure you we are thinking about you (and the work we plan to send you) every second of the day. Please stay healthy. We would think it a shame to not be able to resume occupying your brains as soon as this crisis is resolved.

In the meantime, make sure you indulge in this "emergency math ration box" and think about us who are working hard to keep your fascination with math alive and kicking.

First tasks:

The first thing you should do with this blog is to save it in your favourites in order to be able to access your home time assignments easily.

The second thing I would ask you is to confirm your access to this page by writing a short mail to my PSI e-mail address: pierreg@psi.kiev.ua

The third and redundant thing you have to do (but I'm sure you would never have it otherwise) is to review this page every day to make sure you are up to date on assigned work and that you are not getting late on dead lines.

I would like to remind you (and there is no humour in this statement, I'm very serious about it) that you are attending a full IBO school and that this involves an increased level of responsibility on your part: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LEARNING. If circumstances are creating a challenging situation, let’s see it as an opportunity in extending ourselves and find creative ways to access learning anyways. I'm confident you all have the resources within you to achieve this.

Cheers

Mister Gravel