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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:12 pm
by madpeople
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:48 pm
by Raveen
I've never really considered it before reading the thing on Aunty but Tau does make a hell of a lot of sense when you think about it.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:58 pm
by Clay_Pigeon
Just tell me which is going to be in the state's standards, and that's what I'll teach.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:19 pm
by ryujin
The Pi is a lie!
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:59 pm
by TheDevil
wow mountain out of molehill!
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:29 pm
by BackTrak
If it's only 2x bigger than the molehill, does it qualify as a mountain? Perhaps to worms and and kids on off road skateboards.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:38 pm
by madpeople
Clay_Pigeon wrote:QUOTE (Clay_Pigeon @ Jun 28 2011, 05:58 PM) Just tell me which is going to be in the state's standards, and that's what I'll teach.
Forget standards, start a revolution comrade!
Just tell them to write τ=2π at the start of their working for each question involving PI - the examiner can't fault them then (by claiming that tau is undefined where as pi is)
I like that if you think of a tower (a round one), the circumference is τr [tau r, or 'tower' ] - thus the circumference of a tower is tower.
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:57 pm
by Bard
Clay_Pigeon wrote:QUOTE (Clay_Pigeon @ Jun 28 2011, 11:58 AM) Just tell me which is going to be in the state's standards...
Whatever is on the standardized tests!
*hands you the DRC and NCS answer booklets* Here's your new curriculum, Mr. Pigeon!
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:43 pm
by FreeBeer
I think we should just dust off the Indiana bill that wanted to legislate pi to be 3.2 (amongst other answers).
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:50 pm
by Cyre
I don't understand how this changes anything. Teachers have more important things to do than creating useless constants and adding garbage to the mathematical apparatus, and mathematicians will just not give a crap about it