{"id":17625,"date":"2022-03-10T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/middle-states-in-the-sweet-pi-and-pie\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T18:15:19","slug":"middle-states-in-the-sweet-pi-and-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/middle-states-in-the-sweet-pi-and-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle States — In the Sweet Pi and Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the first math jokes I remember hearing as a child was from a teacher I had in middle school, who said, \u201cYou\u2019ve heard that pi R-squared.\u00a0 Well, pi are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s a line I can appreciate!<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 \u201can economist, an engineer, and a theologian walk into a bar\u2026\u201d?<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Which are not square.<\/p>\n

Authored by Associate Professor Linda Lim.\u00a0<\/em>
\nLinda is co-chair of Working Group \u2161 focusing on Standard II — Ethics and Integrity. She has been teaching Engineering and Mathematics at HVCC since 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n

Celebrate pi day on campus today (March 10) with Student Activities<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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