Could this be a record

Several years ago we were asked to map a small City in North Georgia.?ÿ The mapping was no problem, good SPC control and aerial mapping, ?ÿbut they wanted to put the city limits on the map with all the additions.?ÿ The charter for the City predated the War Between the States and had a 1 mile radius from the courthouse as the original definition.?ÿ The 1840 (+/-) courthouse is long gone with no evidence.?ÿ The land for the courthouse was, supposedly, donated by a wealthy property owner.?ÿ No deed could be found in the County Records (probably burned by General Sherman).?ÿ The State Archives were my next attempt.?ÿ I found deeds from him, including those transferring slaves, but no mention of the land for the courthouse.?ÿ After consultation with the County and City attorneys we decided to use the center of the existing courthouse (+/- 1900) as the center of the circle.?ÿ THEN I got to figure out the location of the additions.?ÿ I do enjoy jigsaw puzzles though.

Andy

Posted by: @holy-cow

I couldn't help myself.?ÿ Had to mention the idea of 1/6 person.?ÿ ... Andy explaining ratios to Opie.?ÿ Opie tries to wrap his mind around "a half a boy".

I couldn't help myself .. have to hijack with the old math problem.

If a boy and a half can eat a pie and a half tn a minute and a half, how long does it 3 boys to eat 3 pies?

@bill93

1/6th of a day. ???? 

@bill93

Meet Horatio

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+andy+griffith+show+half+a+boy&view=detail&mid=5CFB1AEC167EFAE44E105CFB1AEC167EFAE44E10&FORM=VIRE

Cow,

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Sounds to some extent like Oklahoma City on a smaller scale...

Posted by: @flga-pls-2-2

1/6th of a day. ?????ÿ

You didn't pay attention in class and deserved what the nuns did to you. 👿 ?ÿ

@bill93

A minute and a half.

Posted by: @mathteacher

Yup. But you are the teacher, so I'd expect you to get it.

@bill93

I think it's a minute, what am I missing?

@bill93

Visual solution, please excuse the "art". My students had endless jokes about that.

@dave-karoly

I come up with a minute as well Dave.

boy and a half = 3 half boys

pie and a half = 3 half pies

minute and a half = 3 half minutes

1/2 boy eats 1/2 pie in 1/2 minute

3 pies between 3 boys = 1 pie per boy at 1/2 minute per half pie = 1 minute

Unless we're missing the information that boy number three had previously conveyed his pie rights in an unrecorded document to the other boys so only two of the boys will be eating the three pies.

@mathteacher

As long as it clarifies, the art doesn't have to be great.  Makes sense now.

@bill93

Hey, I'm still trying to figure out how Johnny can eat four bananas and six apples Mary gave him and not be sick. ??? 

@jon-payne

"You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff." -Julius "Groucho" Marx

@mathteacher

My daughter, in her early school years, had a mental block about arithmetic, and was completely defeated by fractions. She had no such problem with money. I could throw pocketful of mixed change on the table and she would evaluate the total at a glance. Ask her to add 2 and 2 - couldn't do it. Eventually the program at Kumon brought her around, but not without a lot of tears.     

Posted by: @dave-karoly

"You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff." -Julius "Groucho" Marx

Another time he said "She left in a Huff.?ÿ Or maybe it was a Packard."

Back then there were so many automobile brands that made sense.

@norman-oklahoma

Reading about Kumon, I really like their approach. My high school classes were 90 minutes and we often had to cover multiple topics in a single class period. Lots of effort to make the transitions smooth, but students often got lost or just behind. Smaller bites would have been a blessing, but the pacing didn't always accommodate it.

I knew two excellent private tutors that I recommended to parents. Both were retired math teachers who loved math, loved students, and loved teaching.

I was not a good one-on-one teacher, so I was not a good choice as a tutor. But thank goodness for people who are; they make a huge difference.

@dave-karoly

Here's how the engineering professor might have done it:

Get them units right, boy!

@mathteacher

My Father would've had a book of tables to look up the answer which would be close enough for practical purposes.

My two children were like my Father, advanced math just came naturally to them, why did it skip a generation? One time daughter asked me about some calculus problem, I looked at it, hmm what about that pointing at something, THANKS DAD! and she figured it out.?ÿ I have no idea what I saw.

Mother's story went like this, Dad was an Engineering student at Cal (we learned all the Cal drinking songs from Dad), he slept through all the Calculus classes, somehow got it by osmosis, aced the damned class.?ÿ Dad got sick so Mom went to his class to take notes, get assignments etc., Mom says Professor says, "Mrs. Karoly, did you know Mr. Karoly sleeps through every class yet still gets As, how does he do that?"

"We got drunk last night and got drunk the night before, gonna get drunk tonight like we never got drunk before!" Imagine a bunch of little kids singing that song. We were members of the Souss family!