fandomhigh | Math; Wednesday, First Period [10/20].

Surely, part of the fun of this class by now was just going into it to see who might actually be teaching it, since that was an element that hadn't been consistent for a few weeks now. And this week was no different, as the class would find yet another teacher waiting for them in the classroom that week, one that looked completely too amused by this whole fact as he leaned against the desk at the front of the room while everyone came in and got settled.

"So," he started. "It looks like I'm your teacher for this class this week. In case you don't know, my names Gladio Amicitia, I teach the bird class on Fridays."

Look, Gladio was not unaware of what that class had become in the eyes of literally everyone around it, and he was clearly deciding to just embrace it for what it was.

"But today," he continued, "I'm apparently teaching the math class, and we're going to be talking about measurements."

Because what better choice to talk about units than an absolute unit himself?

"Bear with me," he said, lifting up a hand as if to placate the tide of boredom he figured was about ready to wash over them all, "this first part is going to be a little tedius, but we've got to get through the technical stuff before we can do something a little more interesting. But, basically, units of measurement are ways in which we can determine the size, volume, length, weight, so on and so forth, of something, and there might be different ways of measuring things where you're from, but here, there's basically two different systems. You got the metric, and you've got the imperial, and we're going to go over the basic units of each one real quick on the board here, so bear with me..."

With that, he took to the board so that he would at least jot down all the different units of measurements, how they stacked up against each other, all those fun details on the board, frequently consulting his notes because it wasn't like he was going to memorize this stuff for a class he was probably going to be teaching once.

"A lot of these," he allowed, once he was finished, set down the chalk, wiped the dust from his hands and put them on his hips when he turned back to the class, "seem kind of arbirary, right? Especially if you're from somewhere that uses different measurements, but, basically, the people in charge decide what to use, it sticks, so everyone else follows suit, and then you get things like rulers and stuff so that everyone can follow the same standard, it sort of makes everything easier in the long run. I know you guys got textbooks from your teacher the week before the break, there should be a chapter on all this stuff and with all the different units in it that you can use for a refrence, but that's not really my style. I'm more of a hands-on type of guy, so we're going to get out of this classroom, enjoy the nice day we've got ahead of us, and see what we can do to put some of this measurement stuff into practice."

He hitched a thumb toward the door, and then started for it.

"Pack it up, kids, and let's go!"

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Like an absolute unit.

Josephine Jones

Clare Devlin

Or at least try your best to not get a little too glossy-eyed over keeping all the different units of measurement straight, and also try not to think too hard on why anyone would use a system like imperial when metric, you know, actually makes some sort of sense with its nice and neat base of 10.

Once outside, Gladio stretched out a little with a deep breaht of fresh air, which settled with a sigh and a grin. "Much better," he said, turning that grin toward the students and hoping that they agreed. "Now, what we're going to do out here is just try and get a better idea of what some of these measurements actually look and feel like. We're working mostly with length here, because that's going to work best, and I've got a few activities for us to try."

Which meant breaking this down into further OCD threads. Hooray!

With that, Gladio pulled out a long tape measure from his pocket, held it up to unfurl it, and grinned at the students again. "First up," he announced, "we're going to measure each other's heights, and just for funsies, feel free to start with either metric or imperial, but then go ahead and do the math to convert it to the other one as well. Grab a partner, measure how tall they are, and then we'll share the results with the class."

On the one hand Jo liked the change of scenery from the classroom (or at least she would until she got to the running part) but she wasn’t sure if this was going to help her understand units of measurement because she barely understood imperial let alone metric. Still, she looked around for a partner, at least this activity didn’t seem that bad.

"Now that you've all got an idea of length when it comes to how tall people are," Gladio said, "let's see how you do with estimating how tall I am. So go ahead and put out an estimate, and then we'll get a box and have one of you measure me to see who guessed the closest."

“Er…” Jo wasn’t the best judge when it came to guessing how tall people were and was rather awkward about having to guess her teacher’s height, her male teacher’s height, “uh…er….um….6 foot?” she finally managed to squeak out, flushed bright red and then quickly looked back down again and stared at her hands, which were suddenly very fascinating.

"Now this one," Gladio promised them, "is going to be the fun one."

Fun, anyway, if you liked running a lot!

"I don't know if you noticed," he said, "but I've got some markers set up here for different distances, and, to give you an idea of how long or short these distances are, we're going to go ahead and run them, starting with a yard, which will be three feet. Which is pretty much nothing, but just wait until we build up to comparing what a mile and a kilometer feels like! So take a moment, stretch out a bit, get a little limber, and we'll get going!"

Look, wasn't jogging your units of measurement way better than just sitting on your butt to learn about them?

Jo was not the best runner and she struggled a lot. She was also not dressed for running and she kept having to hold up her ankle length skirt so that she wouldn’t trip over it. She had not expected math class to be so physical first thing in the morning..

"And now," said Gladio, handing out bottles of water to everyone after their very educational 'let's just run a mile and a kilometer for funsies and knowledge!' lesson, "to bring us back down and after a few chances to get an idea of a unit of measurement, I wanna go back to that whole 'kind of arbitrary' thing and thought....what if we made our own units of measurements? Like, the whole thing with a foot is that people say it's called that because it's the length of the foot of some guy who was in charge who decided to start using that, right? So...what would you use, if you were going to make your own unit of measurement? What would you call it? How would it be measured? Like, if we were going to do hands," he held up his own, "my hand would be a lot bigger than some of your hands. Or if we were to do bottles," he held up his bottle of water, "that could vary, too. Or you could do a small unit like a cap," he twisted off the cap of the bottle and held that up, shrugged, and twisted it back on.

"Anything could probably be a unit of measurement," he said. "It's just a matter of consistency and getting everyone else on board to use it."

Jo had immediately sat on the ground and was too busy focusing on trying to remember to breathe before she came up with her own unit of measurement.

She would, eventually but for now she was taking big gulps of water in between her breathing.

You know. The guy who decided to make math a physical education activity.

I feel like Abdominal would be a great unit of measurement for Gladio.

As in, 'how many Abdominal units is the length of the sword we will be using today?"

Or Cup Noodle^TM containers.

"I am this many Cup Noodle^TM containers tall!"

....i have no idea what I'm doing with this class, you guys, just roll with it. XD

Edited 2021-10-20 10:13 (UTC)

Math; Wednesday, First Period [10/20].

Sign In - Math, 10/20.

Re: Sign In - Math, 10/20.

Re: Sign In - Math, 10/20.

Listen to the Lecture - Math, 10/20.

Class Activity: Measuring Stuff - Math, 10/20.

Class Activity: Comparing Heights - Math, 10/20.

Re: Class Activity: Comparing Heights - Math, 10/20.

Class Activity: Estimating Height- Math, 10/20.

Re: Class Activity: Estimating Height- Math, 10/20.

Class Activity: Distance - Math, 10/20.

Re: Class Activity: Distance - Math, 10/20.

Class Activity: Make Your Own Unit! - Math, 10/20.

Re: Class Activity: Make Your Own Unit! - Math, 10/20.

Talk to Gladio - Math, 10/20.

OOC - Math, 10/20.