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By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Oh NOW I get it.

dy/dan » Blog Archive » Oh NOW I get it. — Sat, 12 May 2007 16:31:59 +0000

[…] A few weeks ago I posted this diptych, the only intent of which was to illustrate my gripping inability to see left and right from my students’ perspective. […]

By: Ms. Cornelius

Ms. Cornelius — Wed, 02 May 2007 22:27:58 +0000

I know exactly what you mean! But look at it this way– if you ever go to England, you have practice in negotiating the roadways in a car. Just think of a right turn as a left turn (Pause and look before turning across traffic) and a left turn as a right turn (pause and turn around a corner).

Worked like a charm.

By: Smurf

Smurf — Tue, 01 May 2007 06:34:21 +0000

I would have pointed the other way … just to confuse them :o)

By: dan

dan — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:36:50 +0000

Ah, there it is. Thanks, fellas. Steve, you missed your calling. H., we oughtta set up a pun wiki and just get ’em out there.

By: H.

H. — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:52:41 +0000

“I’m trying to imagine what that could mean but metaphor’s a litttttle outside the math teacher’s job description.”

Maybe so. But consider the literal meanings of, for example,
“completing the square”
“graphing an equation”
“raising to a power”
“height of a triangle”
“multiplying”
“integrating”

Such an interest in metaphorical origins of math expressions might just be another expression of math people’s stereotypical affinity for bad puns, though…

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:09:48 +0000

I think it’s a succinct way of expressing the difficulty to translating to another point of view. Looks like someone’s been practicing their design skills. You’re lookin sharp, pal.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:57:41 +0000

I’m trying to imagine what that could mean but metaphor’s a litttttle outside the math teacher’s job description.

By: Chris Lehmann

Chris Lehmann — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:40:05 +0000

Dare we take that to the level of metaphor?