Math Story Telling Day 2024 is on Wednesday, September 25, 2024: Story time? Please tell me any story?

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 is Math Story Telling Day 2024. Free Story Telling Guide‎ Make Sure Your Story Gets Told! A Guide For Non-Profits & Charities

I show my penis to this cute boy in my math class, now I'm in trouble?

Ok so I'm in the office writing this in my phone and here's what happened. I'm new to this whole dating thing, theres this boy I really like in my math class and I wanted to be his boyfriend, theres these really cool guys in grade 9 and they have sex about five times a day, they say that boys love it when other boys show them their penis.

So in my next math class I stole a seat next to him and stared at his crotch, I became erect and pulled it out through the zipper of my pants, as I was about to tap him on the shoulder with my penis so he could see my thing, this other girl that has no boobs and is ugly screamed "oh my god!", screaming and pointing at my penis.

I stood up to tell her to shut up and go away, but my penis was still hanging out from my pants, all the class was looking at it, I didn't want them to see my penis because it meant I would have to have sex with everybody in the room. I tried to make things right by swooping over to the guy I like and bringing my penis up to his face close up, this made it clear that I wanted him to see my penis and not the rest of the class

As he was doing his work with his earbuds on, my penis got too close to his face because my balls touched his lips. Of course he kissed my penis and grabbed it with his hand, but my penis hit the teacher in the face! It felt really good, and some weird clear goo shot out from my penis and hit him in the face, my teacher got excited and licked all my goo off my boyfriends face and I got sent to the office.

My zipper broke and I couldn't zip my zipper up so I had to leave my penis hanging out there for a while longer, but then class ended and everybody entered the hallway, everybody saw my penis while it was still erect, and I now have to have sex with the entire school. Everyone laughed when the teacher covered up my penis with one hand and I liked it. A kid yelled BALLZ TO YOU!

Why are ugly girls so nosy, and why did the guy I like run away? Is my penis very small? Is my teacher in love with me?

Tell Me Some Stories Of Your First Day Of Middle School!?

One day I was riding my skate board to school, and I had to stop cause there was this lady with her dog in front of me. So I skid to a stop and my whole skate board snaped in half. I have no idea how it even happened. Anyway I had to walk the rest of the way with a broken half in each of my hands.

I end up being late and I get detention at lunch for the day. So when the teacher asks me why I was late I tell her and the class starts laughing [not in a mean way, just like haha that sucks]. So I dropped off my broken board in the office before I came to class like I usually do and get busted because I "didn't where a helmet to school" blah blah. So instead of getting suspended like you usually should when you don't where a helmet they gave me detention for the rest of the week and I had to call my mom right then and there. So I did and she was like just wear one next time blah blah.

So 3rd period I have art, and I was getting stuff to paint a picture with my teacher. I go to the back counter and get paint brushes. I reach over and there was wet dark blue oil paint ON the counter and it gets all over my WHITE jacket. It stained it by the way. So then lunch comes around and my friend asked to see my phone which she gets cought by a really crazy lunch supervisor. She tells me to go bring it to the office, and sends in my name to make sure I go. And the vice principle who cought me about the helmet is like "What are you doing in here again blah blah blah".

So I go to science 6th period, and when I get there we have to disect a WORM [which I forgot about]. Me and my partner had no idea what we were doing at we ended up getting a D. So 7th period I go to math and my teachers asks to see my homework that I actually worked on forever to do only to find out that I did the wrong page and got no credit. So then I couldn't ride home to my dads house on my board because it was broken. I ended up taking forever and he got mad cause I didn't call.

Talk about a really bad day :P

~Namine

Why Modern Math base Ten?

Most newly-discovered mathematics is done in all bases, not just base 10. Theorems of isomorphisms and fields and sets are meant to work over any consistent number system, but I don't believe that's what you're talking about when posing this question.

Modern science does little to answer why we use base 10. Modern science (applied mathematics) would tell us to use binary, with hexadecimal as a way to express numbers more easily. Why write out 1001100 when 4C will do?

No, the reason modern math is done in base 10 lies more in history than it does in science. It's easy to look back and see other bases used... the Babylonians used base 60, the Mayans and many ancient European cultures (including the Greeks) used base 20. You also have to admit that human fingers is a very good reason for using base 10, as much as you say you don't want to hear it.

Base 10 is used because it's the cash language, so to speak, of numeracy. In speaking, reading, and writing, the cash language was Greek 2000 years ago. 1700 years ago it was Latin. The argument today is that the cash language is English, which is why many Americans who speak English only don't bother learning other languages, but why many from other countries find it necessary to learn to speak English, but I digress.

2000 years ago, as I said, the cash language was Greek. Greek was read and written by anyone trying to express themselves at that time (as an example, each of the books of the New Testament were written in Greek).

As the Roman Empire and the Catholic church took over the western world, things were changed to Latin. Roman numerals (based on 10's and 5's) were very difficult to compute, though, and mathematics was not terribly important to the Romans except for taxation. To stress this, name one (just one!) Roman mathematician. You can't. They didn't study it. The closest person you can claim to have been a Roman mathematician was Boethius, but he didn't discover any new maths at all... he merely translated others' work from Greek to Latin.

The Roman Empire crashed and Europe was steeped into the Dark Ages. There was almost no new studies in mathematics for 1000 years. The only folks doing math at all were in Asia... China, India, and Arabia.

Enter Al-Khowarizmi, ca. 800CE. He was responsible for all math the way it's presented to students in grades 1-9 today. Not only did he invent a process for solving equations (algebra), but his work helped popularize the Hindu-Arabic base 10 place-value system we use today. The symbols and terminology were easy to understand. Algorithms for computation became modernized for the day, and they've improved since. By the time Europe was coming out of the Dark Ages and its scholars finally ready to again discover new mathematics, anything recently (within the past four centuries) written was all done in the base 10 system; they had to learn it or not study maths at all.

Sure, there are still other number systems used... you can look to China and Japan or to any computer geek for examples. Even so, they also learn the Hindu-Arabic numerals and the base 10 place-value system because it's the cash language of the day. It would be difficult to buy and sell things to other countries in the world if no one understood the numbers involved.