Integral! Radical! Mu, DV
Slipstick! Slide rule! MIT!
E to the x, dy, dx,
E to the x, dx.
Secant, tangent, cosine, sine,
3.14159
Square root, cube root, log base e,
Cheers for math at MIT.
e to the u, du/dx
e to the x dx
cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3.14159
integral, radical, u dv,
slipstick, slide rule, MIT!
Imagine if there were a more precise calendar, like if instead of 365 units of 1440 minutes each, modern calculating instruments yielded a choice of smaller units more closely attuned to sunrise and moonrise, and each unit could have a really cool name.... Then a 10-digit Pi Day might occur more than once a century. Or not.
Enough headaches for one morning?
Enjoy this!
Hi WFF,
ReplyDeleteThank you as always for your wise finds . That fight song is incomparable !
In direct counterpoint to the wealth of mathematics in the MIT song we currently have the common core test .
I was in a classroom yesterday and read this, taken from an online pin. I don't the author.
For parents trying to teach their children Common Core math:
If you have 4 apples and 7 pencils,
how many pancakes are on the roof?
Purple. Because everyone knows that aliens wear hats.
I am still laughing. Or crying.
well, a cure for befuddlement is to listen to Tom Lehrer, whose albums are collector's items. A lot of his work has found its way to YouTube. I'm betting your boys will love his take on - well, on life in general.
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ReplyDeleteLove the couple who married at 9:26 yesterday. Trying to imagine what their marriage will be like.
I'm trying to imagine a wedding that starts exactly on time.
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