nPostednon September 25, 2014
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Anwoman named Maria Droujkova, founder of Natural Math, was inspired by socialnmedia visionary Seth Godin to think about what she would like peoplento do on her birthday. After some thought, she asked that Septembern25 (her birthday) be known as math storytelling day.
Anwoman named Maria Droujkova, founder of Natural Math, was inspired by socialnmedia visionary Seth Godin to think about what she would like peoplento do on her birthday. After some thought, she asked that Septembern25 (her birthday) be known as math storytelling day.n
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nHerenare two of the stories she shared:
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Althoughn George Washington’s flag sketch for Betsy Ross had 6-pointed stars,n Betsy Ross knew how to make 5-pointed stars more easily. She foldedn the cloth a certain way and then made one snip with her scissors.n Ross recommended the 5-pointed star to the committee andn demonstrated the ease of creating the symmetrical star, and son that’s the kind of stars we ended up with. Check out then fold-and-snip trick here. n
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Customer: “I’mnlooking for an outfit for a one year old girl.”
Customer: “I’mnlooking for an outfit for a one year old girl.”
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nMe: “Sure,nall of the twelve month clothing is in this section.”
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nCustomer: “No,nshe’s one.”
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nMe: “Right,nso that would be over here.”
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nCustomer: “Younjust said that was twelve months!”
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nMe: “Yes.”
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nCustomer: *slowly* “I’mnlooking for ONE YEAR.”
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nMe: “Wouldnyou like to go up one size to 18 months?”
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nCustomer: “Isnthere someone else who can help me?”
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n(Ingo and get my manager.)
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nManager: “Howncan I help you?”
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nCustomer: “Yournemployee doesn’t understand English. I’m looking for clothing fornmy one year old granddaughter.”
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nManager: “Thentwelve month clothes are over here.”
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nCustomer: “Whatnis WRONG with you people?”
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nIfnyou like fictional math stories, check out Mr. R’s World of Math and Science.
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nIfnyou prefer your math stories to be true, check out Six Small Math Errors that Caused Huge Disasters.
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nHownabout math stories that are silly? Herenare some math jokes (warning: in my opinion, only SOME of them arenfunny!). I chuckled over this one:
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nAnvisitor at the Royal Tyrell Museum asks a museum employee: “Can yountell me how old the skeleton of that T-Rex is?”
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n“Itnis precisely 60 million and three years, two months, and eighteenndays old.”
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n“Howncan you know that with such precision?!”
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n“Well,nwhen I started working here, one of the scientists told me that thenskeleton was 60 million years old – and that was precisely threenyears, two months, and eighteen days ago…”
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nAlsonon this date:
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Banned Books Weekn
Banned Books Weeknn
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nAnniversarynof the passage of an amendment that took 74,003 days to be adopted!!!
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nAnniversarynof an early warning that smoking is harmful (1878!)
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nPlannahead:
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nChecknout my Pinterest boards for:
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nSeptembern birthdays
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- Historicaln anniversaries in September
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nAndnhere are my Pinterest boards for:
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