{"id":16,"date":"2015-03-18T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/?p=16"},"modified":"2015-03-18T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:40:08","slug":"roots-factorials-trig-and-summation-notation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/2015\/03\/18\/roots-factorials-trig-and-summation-notation\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots, factorials, trig, and summation notation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this FoxTrot strip Paige has been cramming for her math final and thus is answering all questions in mathematical notation.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/assets.amuniversal.com\/b07d90305e30012ee3bf00163e41dd5b<\/p>\n<p>(Its the May 22, 2005 strip, if the link doesn&#8217;t work.)<\/p>\n<p>In precalculus I asked the students:<\/p>\n<p>1) What temperature will it be tomorrow?\u00a0 Is it going to be hot tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>(The answer is sin^{-1}(1) =90 degrees, so it will be hot).<\/p>\n<p>2) What does the girl (Paige) want for snack?<\/p>\n<p>(The answer is 3.14159265359&#8230;, so she wants pie).<\/p>\n<p>In calculus of sequences and series, you could also ask what the discount was in the fourth panel, which requires computing the sum of an infinite geometric series.<\/p>\n<p>In an algebra class one could ask what time Paige went to bed (\\sqrt{121}= 11:00) or What is on TV? (4!=24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this FoxTrot strip Paige has been cramming for her math final and thus is answering all questions in mathematical notation. http:\/\/assets.amuniversal.com\/b07d90305e30012ee3bf00163e41dd5b (Its the May 22, 2005 strip, if the link doesn&#8217;t work.) In precalculus I asked the students: 1) What temperature will it be tomorrow?\u00a0 Is it going to be hot tomorrow? (The answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12258],"tags":[12247,12251,12249,12257,12252,12253,12256,12255,12254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}