The Art of truely HELPING

Today instead of kicking off my shoes and staying inside. I went a few steps over to my neighbor's home where, children we playing laughing and talking. We rode down the hills with  rip sticks glued to our feet. well maybe not so much mine. But the point was I  was having fun in the sun burning calories and not a whole in my pocket.
  "This is harder then it looks, math i can do but this is a little more of a challenge". She begin to ask me if i could help her with the terrible thing called the unit circle  "intro to trig".We sat outside in the neighboorhood of  Walnut Grove all day until night fall.

I was delighted because i just made a 98 out of 100 on the Unit circle . So I ran to my house, printed out all I needed to help, and I was outside with chalk ready to teach. I drew a huge circle the size or a person laying down. Then I divided this circular object into four even sections. then two more lines and before you knew it the circle was covered in lines. Like this diagram to the right.

   What made her different from other students is how well she simply caught on to the pattern. I would spit out the cosine of 30 is what... and the radian of 225 is what.With the pattern she would figure it on her own with little help at all. What astounded me was how easy teaching it to some on could be. I was proud of myself because I made a hard situation into an easy, fun activity After I showed her the cosine,sine,tangent,and radiant of the unit circle I was back at the chalk. little did i know 20 dollars, was waiting for me.

I simply wanted to help her i had no plans of making money or getting over on her. Of course being humble, i didn't want to take it. I told her, "i only wanted to help". But she, insisted and  wouldn't take it back ..I still might put it in her mail box. it may not seem like much but five dollars was the price of five minutes.
-4/29/2011
with great thoughts you never know what  small things may come out of it
 the names were changed to protect those who may or may not want to be shown on my blog