Monday, January 1, 2024

Happy New Year 2024!

 Happy New Year 2024!

Now that it's 2024, I suppose it's time for a New Year's Resolution: 

"I resolve never to get so upset anytime I see a blatant disregard for the proper use of units or a lack of number sense anymore!" 

This issue of innumeracy shows up everywhere. I think you'd be very surprised by just how ubiquitous this problem really is! Take a look at just a few examples below:

Verizon To The Rescue!
This audio clip, turned YouTube video, is one of the most infamous examples of this complete disregard for number sense and dimensional analysis. Suffice it to say that an approximate 36000 KB cell phone data overage times 0.002 cents per KB is billed at approximately $72???

Potato Farmer
Me: My dear sir, that's quite a sign you have!
Farmer: Why, yes, we are having a big sale.
Me: I can see that! This sale is amazing!
Farmer: May I interest you in some potatoes?
Me: Certainly, I'll take 100lbs.
Farmer: Dear me, how wonderful...
Farmer: Just a minute while I fetch 100 bags!
Me: Thank you, take your time, no hurry...
Farmer: There you go, done loading your car.
Me: Here you are, my good man...
Me: You get a nice new crisp $1 bill...
Farmer: What's the meaning of this?
Me: You did such a fine job, keep the change!
Me: I know, it's way too generous,
Me: but I think you've earned it!
Farmer: This is an outrage!
Me: No, no, you can keep the change. 
Me: After all, with the extra penny,
Me: you can get a whole pound for yourself
Me: with change to spare, no less!
(above: similar problem at my supermarket)

Library Matron
Clearly, the Librarian meant 10 cents per page printed from the PC Lab. However, under the unwritten rules of "Truth In Advertising" I would be fully within my rights to demand 10 printed pages for a single penny, no?

Local Deli
The Deli Guy is guilty of the same gross negligence of proper use of units aka dimensional analysis aka number sense! Did he mean 50 cents per sandwich? Shall we just give him a pass? No, say I, no more Mr Nice Guy! We can't let this slide anymore. Keep this up and it will soon be the end of civilization as we know it! How about an extra 50 cents for 100 sandwiches?

Tile Store
Is the Tile clerk guilty of this mortal sin as well? So, shall we pay our 69 cents per tile and meekly walk away shaking our collective heads without uttering so much as a single cough in derision? No, I will make my order and pay 69 cents for 100 tiles! Maybe I'll take 1000 tiles off the clerk's hands for a measly $6.90! Why stop there, how about 10000.... OK, ok, now this is getting out of hand! SMH

Parting Blow
Sorry, I have no further commentary. This last example just takes the cake ... er burger?

Wait, just when you thought it could not get any worse, there's more:

OK, just one more: 
This one opens up a whole other can of worms! My neighbor's mailbox is supposed to have a street address of 226 Such-And-Such Lane. Did he mix up his Roman Numerals with his Arabic Number System? 

Note: original Roman Numerals were not based on positional arithmetic. II II VI does not equal 2*100+2*10+6 aka 226, it's just 2+2+6=10. Also, the original Roman Numeral System did not use iv=4 nor vi=6. Renaissance Monks made up that "impovement" making copying texts less time consuming! Maybe II II IIIIII would be a more consistent error? BTW, CC XX VI = 226.

New owner? Yes, finally!

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Well, that's all folks.

Be well,

A. Jorge Garcia

Applied Math, Physics & CS

Nassau Community College

A. Jorge García

Applied Math, Physics, CS

Nassau Community College

http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com

http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009


Computing Independent Study Facilitator (Baldwin High Retired)

Continental Mathematics League Advisor (Baldwin High Retired)

Baldwin High Chess Club & Chess Team Founder (US Chess Federation Club Baldwin High Retired)

National Computer Science Honor Society Advisor (Grace Hopper NY Chapter Baldwin High Retired)

2017 PAEMST NYS Mathematics Secondary Nominee https://www.paemst.org (Baldwin High Retired)


HTH & stay safe,

A. Jorge Garcia

Teaching With Technology:
Coding since 1975,
HS Math & Physics since 1984,
College Math & CompSci since 1993,
 Linux Clusters since 2002,
CAS since 2011,
Retirement since 2020?
 
AP Computer Science: 1988-2019
AP Calculus BC: 1993-2018 
Applied Math, Physics and CS

Please support my classroom:
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2017 NYS Secondary Math PAEMST Nominee

pastebin youtube slideshare

(IDEs & Code)
MATH 4H, AP CALC, CSH: SAGECELL
APCSA: code.cs50.io
APCSA: replit.com
Jupyter: CoLab

(Curriculae)
CSH: CodeHS
CSH: Code.org
APCSA: Big Java
APCSA: CSAwesome
APCSA: AP Central

RECOMMENDED AP COMPSCI REVIEW:
CRIB SHEET (given during exam)
FREE TEXTBOOKS
REVIEW BARRONS ONLINE 
REVIEW APCENTRAL (past FRQs)
REVIEW EDX REVIEW MOOC01 
REVIEW UDEMY REVIEW MOOC02 
REVIEW CODING_BAT 
REVIEW PRACTICE_IT 
REVIEW RUNESTONE 
AUDIT CS50

RECOMMENDED AP CALCULUS REVIEW:
CRIB SHEET (not given during exam) 
FREE TEXTBOOKS
REVIEW BARRONS ONLINE 
REVIEW APCENTRAL (latest AB)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (latest BC)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (older AB)
REVIEW APCENTRAL (older BC)
REVIEW EDX MOOC01 
REVIEW COURSERA MOOC02

XTRA CREDIT FILKS RUBRIC 
(1 video = up to 5 bonus points):
1) Use a recognizable tune.
2) Karaoke entire song changing up the words (about STEAM).
3) You are Singing, Dancing or Playing an instrument.
4) You upload your video to YouTube and provide the url.
5) YouTube Description includes the lyrics.

XTRA CREDIT ARTICLES RUBRIC
(up to 5 articles = 1 bonus point each):
1) Cover Sheet is a Summary of the article.
2) FullPage, 12 pt, DoubleSpaced, 1" Margin.
3) Article has to be STEAM related
4) Article has to be a current event.
5) Copy of entire article is attached.

NOTE TO READER:
In recent years our independent study class has been about the care and feeding of Linux Clusters: How to Build A Cluster, How To Program A Cluster and What Can We Do With A Cluster? 

BTW, Shadowfax is the name of the cluster we build! FYI, we offer 4 computing courses: 

CSH: Computer Science Honors with an introduction to coding in Python using SAGE, IDLE, VIDLE and Trinket, 

CSA: AP Computer Science A using CS50, this IDE and this IDE and OpenProcessing, 

CSI: Computing Science Independent Study using OpenMPI and 

CSL: Computing Science Lab which is a co-requisite for Calculus students using Computer Algebra Systems such as SAGE.

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