Math Problems

You know what I hate? When you’re trying to explain a math problem to someone and you’ve been trying for a really long time, and you almost think you’ve got it… And they still don’t understand you. I’m afraid this happens with Robert a lot. For some reason when Robert doesn’t understand something he has a hard time figuring it out.

Happy Pi Day!

Happy Pi day everybody! Today is the 3rd month of the year and the 14th day of the month. So today is 3/14 or Pi day! That means we should all celebrate by doing math problems involving Pi, like finding the diameter of a circle, or the area of a cylinder.  If you want to have real fun you could find the area of a sphere…or maybe eating normal pie would be more fun.

Grade A!

So the other day Mom saw Jonathan siting at his desk scribbling on a piece paper. When she asked him what he was doing he said he was trying to figure out what grade he got in one of his classes. So Mom asked him the percentages were, and he said 95.84, 97.21, 97.21, 93.22, 98.43, 99.49, 82.13, and 92.72. Yeah… Mom told him an A is an A no matter how you add it.

A Math Poem

Because what the world really needs a is poem about math, because then everyone can hate it!

 

Arcosine undoes cosine
Secant is the reciprocal of  Sine
y= ax^2 + bx +c is a parabola
but y = mx +b is a line

An "x" tells you when to multiply
So does a dot, I don't know why
I'd tell you about parenthesis
but I think you'd probably cry

log is a function, "e" a number
pi is two, it's really a bummer
it's 3.1415926535897932384624338
as well as 180 is there anything dumber?

When writing an equation orders necessary
x before y, y before z
but w comes last
that makes no sense to me.

it all seems so paradoxical
because math is supposed to be logical!

In case your wondering, yes, I wrote this for school.

Orthographic Art

Since I’m sure you all love school work as much as I do I thought I’d share today’s assignment.  I needed to create an orthographic image of something so I took this sketchh-a-t-s-mobile-sketchand drew this.h-a-t-s-mobileI actually really liked this assignment.  In an orthographic drawing everything has to line up from one picture to the next (the body of the car is always the same width, the top is the same height, the opening is the same width, ect.) so this project required a fair bit of precision.  It was sort of an intersection between art and math, my two favorite subjects.

A Polarizing Problem

I was helping Nathaniel with his Algebra today when we came upon a problem about converting from rectangular form to polar form.  Suddenly it occurred to me, why is it called polar form?  I mean rectangular form I get, but Polar Form, how does that work?!?  It doesn’t have any polars.  It doesn’t even look like a polar!  Did they start using this system exclusively in the North or South Pole?  Or maybe some guy named Polar invented it, or perhaps polar bears just really love using this coordinate system.

Yes, we do!
Yes, we do!