Plus one Class thread - OTA

[grim_heaper]

Who: Minamimoto and whatever unfortunates wander into his classes
Where: The maths classroom, his... uh... renovated arts classroom, and the field for P.E.
When: Weekdays on and off all month.
Warnings: bad math puns and threats of erasure.

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Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link examined the tool for a moment. "How?"

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

He took it back and pressed it to the board and demonstrated how to line up the base and the swing arm with the lines. "The number here, is the angle."

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link nodded, noting how and where to line up for which angle.

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

"Now remember what I was saying in class about 360?"

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link shook his head. "Not exactly."

It hadn't made much sense at the time, so, he hadn't really retained it.

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

"Alright, then listen up." Now that he knew that Link was smart, there was no way he was letting him skate. He grabbed some spray paint and drew a right angle on the wall. He swapped colours and drew the inner arc. Then a third colour for the outer arc. "Any time 1 + 1 lines meet, they make two angles, an interior and an exterior. The two angles together will always make a circle." He painted over both arcs with yet another colour, circling the point. "And a circle is always three hundred and sixty degrees. Which means if you ever know the size of one angle you know the angle of the other with simple subtraction. So, you know one angle is 180 degrees, what is the other?"

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link tilted his head. "One hundred eighty?"

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

He clapped him on the shoulder. "To think last week you would have given a zero sum answer. Alright. Back to the board. Give me both angles using the protractor to measure one of them only."

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link nodded and carefully set up the protractor to measure.

At least he was doing better in one of his classes.

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

Minamimoto would wait and watch, mentally patting himself on the back. Clearly he was an amazing teacher.

Re: Day 2 (to save us some grief we'll assume he got this one right, lol)

[sevenyearsasleep]

After a moment of measuring he wrote down the correct answer, although, the spray-paint did give him some trouble at first.

Re: Day 2 (to save us some grief we'll assume he got this one right, lol)

[grim_heaper]

Another shoulder clap. "There you go, you've figured out the angle on this problem."

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

And there's a somewhat dorky smile, because, he is not used to praise.

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

"Now, tell me," he tossed himself back against the junk heap like it was a sofa. "Where could you use each of the things we worked on outside of school?"

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link looked thoughtful for a moment.

"Probably in building something, like a table."

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

He nodded. “Building almost every zetta thing. Tables, buildings, bridges. Ready for the next skill that goes with angles?”

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

"Okay, sure," Link nodded.

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

“Repeat after me. Soh Cah Toa.”

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

"Is that some kind of incantation?" What would an incantation have to do with math?

Re: Day 2

[grim_heaper]

"The magic of math. A simple phrase that helps with everything you might ever need to build."

Re: Day 2

[sevenyearsasleep]

Fair enough, Link figured. As long as it didn't summon the undead or anything, Link didn't mind trying it.

"Alright. Um. Soh Cah Toa?"

Re: Day 2 (Had to double check my math here. >.<)

[grim_heaper]

He nodded, grabbed some black spray paint and covered the walls with

S
O
H

C
A
H

T
O
A

Then he grabbed the purple and went to another wall and started painting triangles. "Let's say You were going to build a slide for some zeroes. You know how tall the ladder is, you know how long the slide is, but some factoring hectopascal is not asking you how much room they need to leave for the slide itself. So you need to know how far the bottom of the slide will be from the bottom of the stairs so they don't put a factorial swingset there. With me so far?"

Re: Day 2 (you won't be alone, I'm sure, lol)

[sevenyearsasleep]

Link nodded slowly. Okay, building a slide, that made sense---and figuring the distance between the stairs and bottom of the slide.

Re: Day 2 (you won't be alone, I'm sure, lol)

[grim_heaper]

"So since the ladder will be upright, we know that is going to be a right angle, ninety degrees, right?"

Re: Day 2 (you won't be alone, I'm sure, lol)

[sevenyearsasleep]

"Right...because it's not leaning and the ground is probably flat."