Math Class for Wednesday, November 2 16:00-18:00

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Since Mr. Eppes is out sick today, he has asked me to take over class.

So...announcements for today:
* Murphy MacManus, please talk to me about getting the notes for previous classes.
* Lily, Alanna, Jack or Han if you could be kind enough to give him those notes, that'd be great.
* If Kitty Pryde misses this class, she has detention. Um, er. Yeah.
* If Archie Kennedy misses this class, and does not give a valid excuse by Sunday, he's kicked out of class.

I'll get the classes started with the assignments for the day.

Comments

Roster

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Maia signs in

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Barbossa signed in.

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Lisa signs in

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Anders signs in.

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*Cally signs in, looking a little shaken up*

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Han signs in

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Murphy signs in.

Looks like the caffeine's wearing off, though.

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*signs in*

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Alanna signs in. And wonders if Lj will be smart enough to figure it out...

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Chloe signs in.

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Thomasina signs her name to the class roster and goes to join Lisa and Broots at the Advanced group's table.

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Kawalsky signed in.

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Faith signs in totally depressed that the ZOMG hot teacher isn't around.

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[Jack would sign in and give a note here but he's still in the clinic all sickly-like and stuff]

Beginners

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Pick one of the following Numeral systems to study today, and tell what you found the most interesting about it on Friday:

Arabic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals)
Babylonian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_numerals)
Cyrillic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_numerals)
Hebrew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_numerals)
Japanese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals)

((reserved to the shy creature in the back: D'ni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27ni_numerals)))

Re: Beginners

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Maia glances over the numeral systems and decides to go with Hebrew, Diana was jewish afterall it worked for her. *smirks*

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Barbossa looked with some dismay at the information in front of him. "These be numbers?" he muttered.

He decided the Babylonian ones would look really neat as tattoos.

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[[EEE! A fake number system for a fake student. :D

The information on D'ni disappears when Broots isn't looking and is replaced by a plate of cookies.]]

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Chloe looks over the list, and decides to go with Cyrillic.

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Faith looks at the numerals, confused. "The Japanese ones are pretty."

Intermediate

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"Is mathematics a science? Discuss." covered in the book here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Is_mathematics_a_science.3F)

Re: Intermediate

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It seems like a science to me, but then again I'm not really too good at scientific stuff. Math's got all the rules and everything . . . but I guess it kind of has more rules than science does, doesn't it? With math you have to work within the rules to figure out whatever problems you're trying to solve by numbers, but with science you have to figure out the problems in order to make the rules.

So in a way, I guess they're the same, but in other ways they're total opposites.

Advanced

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Read the chapter on Mathematical biology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_biology) and write a brief eassy suggesting how this could be or is not relevant to a project concerning computers.

Re: Advanced

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Lisa submits an essay on how mathematical modelling is currently being used to improve cancer therapy.

...The aim of the network is to develop the whole modelling process from phenomenological observation to simulation and validation, through the development of mathematical models and their qualitative and quantitative study, in order to simulate the different aspects of tumor dynamics within the full range of scales: sub-cellular, cellular and macroscopic. Developing mathematical models at all the scales mentioned requires making use of a wide variety of theoretical tools from a range of disciplines (e.g., continuum mechanics, kinetic theory, stochastic processes, system theory, compartmental models, multiphase systems) and developing different mathematical tools to obtain both qualitative and quantitative results....

Bug the TA

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Broots is sitting in the back, hoping no one bothers him

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"Hey Broots, what's up?"Lisa says, looking over his shoulder to see what he is up to.