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.

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Roster

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Sign in here

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)))

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)

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.

Bug the TA

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

Re: Roster

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Maia signs in

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*

Re: Roster

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Barbossa signed in.

Re: Beginners

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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.

Re: Bug the TA

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

Re: Roster

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Lisa signs in

Re: Bug the TA

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"Erm, hey Lisa. Teacher's sick so I get to run the show. And work on my homework in the mean time. You?"

Re: Bug the TA

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"Sweet. Can you actually help me with the assignment? I know how to run a computer, but anything beyond the basics is a little bit beyond my reach. The topic I can understand, but how do you use it in computers? Modeling software?"

Re: Bug the TA

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"Sure!" Broots grabbed the book and began gabling on about computers. Some of it may have been even relevant.

Re: Bug the TA

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

Lisa nods, nods, give him a curious look, and then finally starts to blank out.

"Thanks, Broots. I think I understood about 1/8th of that, but what I did catch was actually really helpful." She gives him an amused but grateful smile. "Where did you learn all this stuff?"

Re: Bug the TA

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Broots shrugged. "I guess I just kinda picked it up. Mostly self taught. My old school had a really good computer lab that no one used, so the teacher let me fool around a bit with the equipment. And hide from people."

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....

Re: Bug the TA

[lisacuddy.livejournal.com]

"Damn, not bad. So, is Eppes really sick, or was he like, eaten by Locker 327 or that Crazy Squid Lady?"

Re: Bug the TA

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Broots shrugged. "No clue. He sent me an e-mail saying he had the flu and will be spending the day in bed." He paused for a moment. "I hope he has the flu."

Re: Roster

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Anders signs in.

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.

Re: Roster

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*Cally signs in, looking a little shaken up*

Re: Intermediate

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Yes. Can I go now? *chews on the end of her pencil, nervously*

Re: Intermediate

[dorky-broots.livejournal.com]

"I suppose. Is everything all right?"

Re: Intermediate

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Just... had a bit of a... weird Quantum Physics class, that's all. I'm... I... I don't really want to talk about it. *bites clean through her eraser*

Sorry.