One of the first math jokes I remember hearing as a child was from a teacher I had in middle school, who said, “You’ve heard that pi R-squared. Well, pi are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square.”
It might sound corny now, but at the time, I thought it was a brilliant piece of humor: a line that juxtaposes a delicious dessert, a mathematical constant, and humor — well, that’s a line I can appreciate!
Working on the Middle States Self-Study, we get to encounter these weird and wonderful juxtapositions all the time. Where else can you find teams of people working together, any collection of which sounds like the beginning of a joke – “an economist, an engineer, and a theologian walk into a bar…”?
What we find, though, is that in working together, we all bring our various gifts and insights together, to assemble into a glorious whole, kind of like a really good recipe for, say, a pie. Which are not square.
Authored by Associate Professor Linda Lim.
Linda is co-chair of Working Group Ⅱ focusing on Standard II — Ethics and Integrity. She has been teaching Engineering and Mathematics at HVCC since 2003.
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Published: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:15:19 +0000 by j.stenard