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Math; Wednesday, First Period [10/06].
With Summer out in space and Rosa fleeing from this class completely the moment she had even a window of opportunity to do so, it would appear that this intrepid little mathematics class was about to have its third instructor in as many weeks, and this one looked as though he might be every bit the fussy sort of math instructor that his spectacles and the suspenders he'd worn that day might suggest.
"Good morning," he greeted. "For those of you who don't know me, my name is Ignis Scientia, and it appears I will be taking over the duties of instruction for this mathematic course." For just the week? For the rest of the semester? Perhaps time shall tell! "Now, it's come to my attention that you have all been pursuing this subject without even so much as help from a textbook, so I am pleased to announce that we will be rectifying this oversight today." With that, he moved behind the desk to pull up a fat stack of text books and set them on the desk up front, with ha hand brushing futilely over the cover. "They appear a bit old, rarely used, and dusty, but they shall serve their purpose and hopefully be an excellent resource in furthering your education. Now, with that said, let us continue on with the lesson at hand.
"Today," Ignis then turned toward the board so he could start filling it with pretty much every minute detail he was about to cover, "we're going to discuss fractions, which are expressions of parts of a whole. For example, if you have a cake," here he drew a circle on the board, "and you cut it into four equal parts, each slice is 1/4th of the cake. Two slices would be consider 2/4, which you would then reduce down to 1/2, because you would have one half of the cake. And if you took three slices, it would be 3/4, the whole cake would then be 4/4ths, only at that part, you would simply consider it one cake, because you hav eall four parts. The same is you cut it into 5 slices, or 6, or 10, and so on and so forth down the line. In a way, this correlates well with the topic you discussed last week with Miss Smith, percentages, it is just another way of expressing it....
"And, just as with basic math, you may sometimes encounter a situation of combining fractions in a variety of different functions, which is where things start to get a little more interesting..."
Interesting was surely the perfect word to describe the lesson as it went on (and on, and on) to go over everything from equivalent fractions, simplifying and reducing fractions, comparing fractions, and then, finally, adding and subtracting fractions, especially with unlike denominators, and multiplying and dividing them as well.
And once the board was quite filled with information (and hopefully the students weren't bored themselves!), Ignis set down the chalk, looked over his work with satisfaction, and dusted the dust from his gloves.
"Now," he said, "that is quite a lot to go over, so if there are any questions, now would be a good time to ask them. I'll not subject you to having to go up to the board to try and exhibit this new knowledge," there wasn't any room left even if he had!, "but I do have some practice worksheets for you to all go through. Feel free to try to get help from each other or from myself, and we'll save a bit of time at the end of class to go over what we've learned or what we still might be struggling with."
"Good morning," he greeted. "For those of you who don't know me, my name is Ignis Scientia, and it appears I will be taking over the duties of instruction for this mathematic course." For just the week? For the rest of the semester? Perhaps time shall tell! "Now, it's come to my attention that you have all been pursuing this subject without even so much as help from a textbook, so I am pleased to announce that we will be rectifying this oversight today." With that, he moved behind the desk to pull up a fat stack of text books and set them on the desk up front, with ha hand brushing futilely over the cover. "They appear a bit old, rarely used, and dusty, but they shall serve their purpose and hopefully be an excellent resource in furthering your education. Now, with that said, let us continue on with the lesson at hand.
"Today," Ignis then turned toward the board so he could start filling it with pretty much every minute detail he was about to cover, "we're going to discuss fractions, which are expressions of parts of a whole. For example, if you have a cake," here he drew a circle on the board, "and you cut it into four equal parts, each slice is 1/4th of the cake. Two slices would be consider 2/4, which you would then reduce down to 1/2, because you would have one half of the cake. And if you took three slices, it would be 3/4, the whole cake would then be 4/4ths, only at that part, you would simply consider it one cake, because you hav eall four parts. The same is you cut it into 5 slices, or 6, or 10, and so on and so forth down the line. In a way, this correlates well with the topic you discussed last week with Miss Smith, percentages, it is just another way of expressing it....
"And, just as with basic math, you may sometimes encounter a situation of combining fractions in a variety of different functions, which is where things start to get a little more interesting..."
Interesting was surely the perfect word to describe the lesson as it went on (and on, and on) to go over everything from equivalent fractions, simplifying and reducing fractions, comparing fractions, and then, finally, adding and subtracting fractions, especially with unlike denominators, and multiplying and dividing them as well.
And once the board was quite filled with information (and hopefully the students weren't bored themselves!), Ignis set down the chalk, looked over his work with satisfaction, and dusted the dust from his gloves.
"Now," he said, "that is quite a lot to go over, so if there are any questions, now would be a good time to ask them. I'll not subject you to having to go up to the board to try and exhibit this new knowledge," there wasn't any room left even if he had!, "but I do have some practice worksheets for you to all go through. Feel free to try to get help from each other or from myself, and we'll save a bit of time at the end of class to go over what we've learned or what we still might be struggling with."
Practice Fractions - Math, 10/06.
Re: Practice Fractions - Math, 10/06.
She mostly just sat at her desk, flipping through the pages hoping for a clearer response but it mostly just confused her and in the end she only managed to answer a handful of the early questions on the worksheet.