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Mathematics: All Classes: Wednesday 3.22.06 Period 1
"Good morning! Please wait until I finish giving the assignments for today before going back to sleep.
Now, you are all in this class for a reason. For most of you the reason is probably "we have to in order to graduate." But there are reasons to study, math really. So, beginners? You guys are going to come up with three real world scenarios where you would use any kind of math and then write a problem for each one. I'll walk around and help you out with the problems.
Intermediate, you're going to read Flatland. Yes, it has twenty-two chapters. Each chapter is at most three pages long, so please don't panic ahead of time. After you read, you will find a question that did not get answered, for instance: "How does A. Square eat?". Then, you will come up with a creative answer to this question while tying in something from mathematics. So a possible answer for me would be: "A. Square needs to eat e times his total perimeter each day. He moves towards his food and absorbs into his perimeter.". I'm sure you guys can be more creative.
All right, have fun! Oh, and if you want your current grades, talk to me after class."
Now, you are all in this class for a reason. For most of you the reason is probably "we have to in order to graduate." But there are reasons to study, math really. So, beginners? You guys are going to come up with three real world scenarios where you would use any kind of math and then write a problem for each one. I'll walk around and help you out with the problems.
Intermediate, you're going to read Flatland. Yes, it has twenty-two chapters. Each chapter is at most three pages long, so please don't panic ahead of time. After you read, you will find a question that did not get answered, for instance: "How does A. Square eat?". Then, you will come up with a creative answer to this question while tying in something from mathematics. So a possible answer for me would be: "A. Square needs to eat e times his total perimeter each day. He moves towards his food and absorbs into his perimeter.". I'm sure you guys can be more creative.
All right, have fun! Oh, and if you want your current grades, talk to me after class."
Re: Beginners
A pirate crew consisting of 10 pirates total. One Captain, one First Mate, one cook, the beautiful Captain's Daughter, and the rest are general crew. Everybody gets one share just for being on the crew, the Captain gets 2 extra shares for being the Captain, The First Mate and the Cook both get 1 extra share for being the First Mate and the Cook. The beautiful Captain's Daughter gets an extra share because she saved the day during the battle. How many shares total must the loot be divided into?
"15"
"Once you know how many shares you're going to split the haul into. You need to actually do the splitting."
Bottles of rum are generally considered to be worth one quarter of a share. Weapons are worth half a share, unless they're very nice in which case they are one full share. Money is divided equally depending on the number of surviving crew members and the numbers of shares needed to cover everybody after the value of any non-cash loot is figured.
Your haul is 100 gold coins, 6 bottles of rum, 3 cutlasses, and 2 really nice cutlasses. Divy up the shares based on the information in the previous problem.
10 shares of 10 gold coins each
2 shares of 1 really nice cutlass each
3 shares of 1 cutlass and 2 bottles of rum each
Pippi thought really hard for a third quesiton...