{"id":20,"date":"2015-03-23T18:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T18:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/?p=20"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:30:00","slug":"cat-proximity-and-its-effect-on-the-human-intelect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/2015\/03\/23\/cat-proximity-and-its-effect-on-the-human-intelect\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Proximity and its effect on the human intellect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Munroe drew a lovely comic strip graphing the effects of proximity to a cat on the human intellect:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Yes you are! And you're sitting there! Hi, kitty!\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/cat_proximity.png\" alt=\"Cat Proximity\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(You can view it here: http:\/\/xkcd.com\/231\/).<\/p>\n<p>In differential calculus I asked students to describe the graphs using their knowledge of calculus.\u00a0 Statements about both the first and second derivative are expected.<\/p>\n<p>In Intermediate Algebra here at UDM we study qualitative graphs, so I also asked my Algebra students to describe the graph.\u00a0 These students have to say things like the intelligence of the human is decreasing, but at an ever faster rate.<\/p>\n<p>One caution with this comic: some students do not know what &#8220;inanity&#8221; means, so I use this problem on the review sheet rather than the exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Munroe drew a lovely comic strip graphing the effects of proximity to a cat on the human intellect: &nbsp; (You can view it here: http:\/\/xkcd.com\/231\/). In differential calculus I asked students to describe the graphs using their knowledge of calculus.\u00a0 Statements about both the first and second derivative are expected. In Intermediate Algebra here [&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":[12247,12251,12249,12259,12260,12261,12262,12248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}