{"id":5948,"date":"2021-04-25T21:29:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2021-04-25T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T03:31:30","slug":"foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2021\/04\/25\/foiled\/","title":{"rendered":"FOILed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were working together in a group on the other side of the room.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you know how to FOIL?&rdquo; I heard one of the students ask another.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&rsquo;s not true. She knew how to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FOIL_method\">FOIL<\/a> once upon a time, since she passed Algebra 1. Nevertheless, that was two years ago, right?<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So,&rdquo; he began to explain. &ldquo;FOIL is&#8230;&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At this point I got distracted by a question from someone else, and the group&rsquo;s conversation faded away. Then I heard her speak up.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh my god, I did it!&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I did FOIL. Mister, I know FOIL!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this was only the first part of solving the problem, since this is Algebra 2 not Algebra 1. I heard the other student continue to teach her&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ok, now <em>after FOIL<\/em>, what you do is&#8230;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sweet, sweet music.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were working together in a group on the other side of the room. &ldquo;Do you know how to FOIL?&rdquo; I heard one of the students ask another. &ldquo;No,&rdquo; she said. Well, that&rsquo;s not true. She knew how to FOIL once upon a time, since she passed Algebra 1. Nevertheless, that was two years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}