The Ten Commandments of Math

1. Thou shalt not divide by zero.

2. Thou shalt not put other textbooks before thee in math class.

3. Thou shalt show thy work, check thy work, and confirm that thy results     are reasonable.

4. Remember thy test days and prepare for them wholly.

5. Thou shalt not do thy math in ink.

6. Thou shalt honor the correct order of operations.

7. Thou shalt commit the facts of arithmetic to memory.

8. Thou shalt do unto one side of an equation what thou doest to the other.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy original problems; thou shalt copy thy problems accurately and legibly.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's paper, nor anything that is thy neighbors.