L. Marcus Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Dwarf bread -- when food fighting is not a metaphor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 I would not have thought that finding a diameter of a sphere given its volume would be quite so difficult, but it seems to have overcome almost all of the students. In most cases, I can't even figure out what they actually did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 ... Oh my. That bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 I would not have thought that finding a diameter of a sphere given its volume would be quite so difficult, but it seems to have overcome almost all of the students. In most cases, I can't even figure out what they actually did. Did you give them a value for pi as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 And did they at least get as far as computing the radius? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 No and no. It's a lab. First they compute densities from measurements of samples, both nice geometric solids and stuff they measure in a graduated cylinder. They have success there, mostly. But then I ask them to compute the diameter of a sphere of a metric ton (10^6 grams) of each substance. And this causes severe randomness. A good number of them get the volume of said sphere from mass and their density values, but getting to diameter from there is ... problematic, and most of the time I can't tell what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 They went off the beaten path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Off into the woods, where the prof guy in the hockey mask got them. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Hee hee hee ... Who are these guys anyway? Liberal arts majors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 And business majors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 ... Oy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 A number of my colleagues in the liberal arts disciplines don't take me seriously when I tell them there are lots of students who'd rather chew off a hind leg than take a math class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 It's probably down to childhood trauma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 16, 2014 Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 Makes me think darkly and recall the infamous Heinlein quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Which is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 here L. Marcus and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 A number of my colleagues in the liberal arts disciplines don't take me seriously when I tell them there are lots of students who'd rather chew off a hind leg than take a math class. Where do they think their students come from? I knew dozens of people in college who dropped out of nursing or engineering because of the math and switched to english or psych. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 I wonder how many liberal arts students realise that math related courses are the majority --4 out of 7. The liberal arts in broad sense covers both humanities & sciences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 here Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Course grades are posted, fourteen hours before the deadline. Hah! Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 That wath a good laugh, thur. [/igor] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 And in three weeks, I reprise my role as the Ogre of Physics 106. Let the screaming begin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 Should we begin warming up now, you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 here This is brilliant. I wonder how much trouble I'd get in if I posted the quote on Facebook... (Or in my classroom. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 17, 2014 Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 This is brilliant. I wonder how much trouble I'd get in if I posted the quote on Facebook... (Or in my classroom. ) Try it, also up to you. It is just a variant of the traditional phrase as you entered The Academy: "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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