Numb3rs...
Possibly the only thing that makes me think of math or physics in a positive light.
Of course, you know, if anyone ever used a smidgen of imagination when coming up with the problems for either class, I might have had more incentive to learn. (<--Actually, that's a lie. I just wanted something to take away the mind numbing boredom. And short of that, I wished that my teachers were narcoleptic so that there was at least some chance that they would nap and I could be justified in napping by example.)
Still, If given the choice of solving a physics word problem that determines whether or not it was Mr. X the convicted felon and secret lover or if it was Mrs. Y the jealous housewife that killed Mr. M based on the trajectory of the bullet versus a problem about balls rolling down a triangle...
It's like the trains passing each other question. Who the hell cares if they pass each other? I want crashes! Body counts! If it took twenty minutes for the trains to crash twenty miles from station A and ten miles from station B with Train A going at a speed of 50 mph, how fast was Train B going? And if twenty people die for every ten mph of speed that Train B was travelling at, how big of a tragedy will the five o'clock news be reporting? One Train is going the proper limit while the other is speeding, the public will sue Amtrak 10 bajillion dollars for every ten mph faster the fastest train is speeding at. How much poorer will Amtrak be should they loose their lawsuit?
And because I'm lazy and math defiecent, I will not even attempt to see if my problem is solvable. But! If I were in a situation where I would have to solve a problem, tht would be more amusing then two trains passing randomly for no important reason.
Dammit, if you can make math like an episode of CSI or Numb3rs or Without a Trace, then then *gasp* it might have been interesting.
Or not. Because there's not a damn thing on the planet that will make geometry proofs interesting. (Or in my case, sensible.)
(1. The Trianlge is drawn crappily.
2. Some of the angles look like they might have come from a circle and the line I drew to bisect the whatcamacalit looks like a snake.
3. The book says that the semi-circle angle in this corner is supposed to look the like Tree angle I drew in the other corner.
4. The triangle is randomly bisected because this is an absolute truth of math.
5. Absolute Truth Randomly Numbered #345456456 by the book: No triangle can live without bisecting itself.
6. The book says the two traingles I have created by bisecting the first triangle are supposed to look the same.
7. I think the book lies.
8. I suspect the book of a terrorist plot to take over my school.
9. I reject the hypothesis that this is bored paranoia talking.
10. The triangle is tired of bisecting itself and comparing angles and will now take a nap underneath the cheap trashy novel I want to read instead.
Therefore : The triangle is fucked and this problem has no real solution.
Therefore part deux:
Dear bald, aging, pregnant looking man teacher,
Child abuse is against the law.
Abused by geometry proofs,
Me.)
Math was always one of those subjects that was so much more entertaining in my head and never failed to fall far short of my expectations in real life.
Of course, you know, if anyone ever used a smidgen of imagination when coming up with the problems for either class, I might have had more incentive to learn. (<--Actually, that's a lie. I just wanted something to take away the mind numbing boredom. And short of that, I wished that my teachers were narcoleptic so that there was at least some chance that they would nap and I could be justified in napping by example.)
Still, If given the choice of solving a physics word problem that determines whether or not it was Mr. X the convicted felon and secret lover or if it was Mrs. Y the jealous housewife that killed Mr. M based on the trajectory of the bullet versus a problem about balls rolling down a triangle...
It's like the trains passing each other question. Who the hell cares if they pass each other? I want crashes! Body counts! If it took twenty minutes for the trains to crash twenty miles from station A and ten miles from station B with Train A going at a speed of 50 mph, how fast was Train B going? And if twenty people die for every ten mph of speed that Train B was travelling at, how big of a tragedy will the five o'clock news be reporting? One Train is going the proper limit while the other is speeding, the public will sue Amtrak 10 bajillion dollars for every ten mph faster the fastest train is speeding at. How much poorer will Amtrak be should they loose their lawsuit?
And because I'm lazy and math defiecent, I will not even attempt to see if my problem is solvable. But! If I were in a situation where I would have to solve a problem, tht would be more amusing then two trains passing randomly for no important reason.
Dammit, if you can make math like an episode of CSI or Numb3rs or Without a Trace, then then *gasp* it might have been interesting.
Or not. Because there's not a damn thing on the planet that will make geometry proofs interesting. (Or in my case, sensible.)
(1. The Trianlge is drawn crappily.
2. Some of the angles look like they might have come from a circle and the line I drew to bisect the whatcamacalit looks like a snake.
3. The book says that the semi-circle angle in this corner is supposed to look the like Tree angle I drew in the other corner.
4. The triangle is randomly bisected because this is an absolute truth of math.
5. Absolute Truth Randomly Numbered #345456456 by the book: No triangle can live without bisecting itself.
6. The book says the two traingles I have created by bisecting the first triangle are supposed to look the same.
7. I think the book lies.
8. I suspect the book of a terrorist plot to take over my school.
9. I reject the hypothesis that this is bored paranoia talking.
10. The triangle is tired of bisecting itself and comparing angles and will now take a nap underneath the cheap trashy novel I want to read instead.
Therefore : The triangle is fucked and this problem has no real solution.
Therefore part deux:
Dear bald, aging, pregnant looking man teacher,
Child abuse is against the law.
Abused by geometry proofs,
Me.)
Math was always one of those subjects that was so much more entertaining in my head and never failed to fall far short of my expectations in real life.