Posted
on September 25, 2014
A
woman named Maria Droujkova, founder of Natural Math, was inspired by social
media visionary Seth Godin to think about what she would like people
to do on her birthday. After some thought, she asked that September
25 (her birthday) be known as math storytelling day.
Here
are two of the stories she shared:
Although
George Washington's flag sketch for Betsy Ross had 6-pointed stars,
Betsy Ross knew how to make 5-pointed stars more easily. She folded
the cloth a certain way and then made one snip with her scissors.
Ross recommended the 5-pointed star to the committee and
demonstrated the ease of creating the symmetrical star, and so
that's the kind of stars we ended up with. Check out the
fold-and-snip trick here.
Customer: “I’m looking for an outfit for a one year old girl.”
Me: “Sure,
all of the twelve month clothing is in this section.”
Customer: “No,
she’s one.”
Me: “Right,
so that would be over here.”
Customer: “You
just said that was twelve months!”
Me: “Yes.”
Customer: *slowly* “I’m
looking for ONE YEAR.”
Me: “Would
you like to go up one size to 18 months?”
Customer: “Is
there someone else who can help me?”
(I
go and get my manager.)
Manager: “How
can I help you?”
Customer: “Your
employee doesn’t understand English. I’m looking for clothing for
my one year old granddaughter.”
Manager: “The
twelve month clothes are over here.”
Customer: “What
is WRONG with you people?”
If
you prefer your math stories to be true, check out Six Small Math Errors that Caused Huge Disasters.
How
about math stories that are silly? Here
are some math jokes (warning: in my opinion, only SOME of them are
funny!). I chuckled over this one:
A
visitor at the Royal Tyrell Museum asks a museum employee: “Can you
tell me how old the skeleton of that T-Rex is?”
“It
is precisely 60 million and three years, two months, and eighteen
days old.”
“How
can you know that with such precision?!”
“Well,
when I started working here, one of the scientists told me that the
skeleton was 60 million years old – and that was precisely three
years, two months, and eighteen days ago…”
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