LAW OF THE DONUT

believe me, that's the idea behind our school. but if my kids can't do fractions, i gotta give em fraction worksheets.

i mean, this isn't the curriculum. right now my kids are building a casino that the rest of the school is going to gamble in; they're figuring all of the probabilities for their games and building payoff matrixes and i'm grading them based on whether they can create games with a particular expectation value. the test is going to be how close they get within that expectation value. this is the same real math that other 10th graders are doing, and then some. next they're learning sines and cosines and applying them to rotations to build escher-style tessellations, and then they're going to use all of the area, angle and volume stuff they've done all year to design cost-effective houses for developing nations in sketchup.

but for the five or six kids out of my 48 who can't do fractions, well, they gotta do their worksheets.

i mean, they're doing everything else, plus the worksheets

Do they get a donut once they figure out fractions?

(You know actually lots & lost of grownups do not understand fractions.)

ok i feel a little better now but your initial statement had me really worried!!!!
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http://gazettextra.com/news/2009/apr/30/walworth-county-cop-wins-doughnut-eating-world-tit/

what famous rule of doughnuts...

famous?!

There is some advanced math thing that is described via donuts ... I forget what it was, but my first boyfriend in college explained it to me once.

The torus?

oh yes i remember the torus

Yes! The torus!

the torus?