Mathematics: All Classes: Friday 18.11 (16:00-18:00)

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Today Charlie has apples and oranges. Feel free to snag one as you sign in.

"Lisa Cuddy has detention for missing two classes last week."

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Beginners

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"Today I'd like you to write an essay - 50 to 100 words - on what you have learned thus far in class."

Re: Beginners

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Faith starts to write.

I have learned a lot in math class. I have learned about math and numbers. I learned about numerical systems from different countries and different time periods. I have learned about not real numbers that mathematicians made up to solve impossible problems. And I have learned about how to evenly divide pizza among a group and express this in a fraction.

Worst essay ever. Cause I can't remember math classes.

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Is not memorable. Wah!

Re: Beginners

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Chloe writes:

I've learned that mathematics is more than just taking numbers and adding or subtracting them, or doing more complicated, incomprehensible things that only math teachers truly understand. There's a lot more history to math than I ever realized, and I've learned that I understand more about the subject than I thought I would.

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Maia starts to write

I learned that the idea of numbers goes back way beyond the actual writen number. The concept of zero before there was a set idea about numbers and the fact that even then the place setting of zero was important. I also liked the class with the pizza and the fact that you remembered to put teeny tiny marshmallows in the hot cocoa the other day. That was nice. Thank you.

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Barbossa, munching on his apple, began to write in his strangely neat script. He didn't put it on a post-it note, though.

I be learnin' all manner o' interestin' things about numbers. I be learnin' that the cavemen be makin' maps t'keep from gettin' lost, and that the ancient Sumer...Samerita...people who's name be startin' with 'S' be writin' numbers that be not lookin' like numbers at all. I also be learnin' about fractions wit' pizza. And about lovin' this class because I be gettin' apples, which be far better fer me than the Twinkies from Professor Ted's class.

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At the end of class, a piece of paper is found on Charlie's desk. It reads:

I've learned that Sudoku puzzles, even though they aren't strictly math problems, are fun. I've also learned that number systems from fake other worlds have good ideas that we really need to implement in our own system. Also? Imaginary number? Totally not useless (even if they are still way confusing). And lastly, I've learned that a math professor with an open mind is the best thing ever!

An orange disappears and a large piece of chocolate cake is placed beside the piece of paper.

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Charlie beams at the essay, and takes the chocolate cake with him back to his rooms after class.