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@Silas Hundt I want a video of the Brilliant team doing this dance, set to The Safety Dance. Bonus points for @Calvin Lin stubbornly doing the correct sin(x) and log(x).
This brings back memories... I was forced to do this "dance" during our club session once... And the last one was some tangled arm thing labelled as crap
That is very good idea to learn functions with my children:) Thank you! We will make them without mistakes. But also I think that it will be good to present them with any mistake, which the children have to find them!
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Top NewestSorry to be a party pooper, but y=sinx, y=logax are wrong.
y=ax should also include the qualifier a>1 lol.
Perhaps we should make this an MCQ of "How many mistakes are there?"
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Such a party pooper.
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learning with fun
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You're just jealous you don't have those dance skills ;D
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y=sinx is definitely wrong. I reckon y=logax is right if a<1. Maybe I'm wrong. Lol.
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If a<1, then also the graph is wrong. The domain of the function is positive real numbers, so the graph is definitely wrong
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0<a<1. But of course, you're right in saying that.
Well, the shape looks legit, at the very least. :P I should've also saidLog in to reply
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Ahaha I was actually looking at some of these and thinking to myself some seem a bit off!
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Hahaha!
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Dance functions, dance!
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Wow! Nice drawing!
By the way , what is that written on the top ?
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No idea, maybe @Calvin Lin knows?
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Chinese for "function dance"
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@Silas Hundt I want a video of the Brilliant team doing this dance, set to The Safety Dance. Bonus points for @Calvin Lin stubbornly doing the correct sin(x) and log(x).
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However, converting the words to Chinese (Direct translate) is maths (physical) exercise, with my interpretation.
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@Silas Hundt There's a poster of this in my old Precalculus class, with one addition: a person with his arms all tangled up labeled "WTF?"
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This brings back memories... I was forced to do this "dance" during our club session once... And the last one was some tangled arm thing labelled as crap
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y = [x] , this function makes it a grand party!
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@Suyeon Khim and @Peter Taylor ...
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Nice, @Silas Hundt
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That's funny. :D
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Sir now you dance in parties like that's :)
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Very funny and cool
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The Last One is missing!!......a strange hand movement and was termed as 'crap'
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And poor hyperbole just can't help but glance at their asymptotes :p
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IT'S A VERY GOOD AND FUNNY TOO
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That is very good idea to learn functions with my children:) Thank you! We will make them without mistakes. But also I think that it will be good to present them with any mistake, which the children have to find them!
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This is irrelevant, but how to attach pictures in notes?
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Thank you
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But will it be shown as this pic or as a link?
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How did you write the format for pasting a pic , with a box around it ?
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‘text‘ renders
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as output.Those "quote"-like marks are given by the key which is exactly below the "Esc" key.
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Thanks a lot Prasun!
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WOW nice drawing, awesome::)::)
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WAIT A MINUTE, I thought Mathfights shared this.... Hmmm, @Daniel Liu . But very cool and very funny :D @Silas Hundt
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No, Mathfights got it from reddit or tumblr or 4chan or another one of those places.
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Ahhh... Thx! @Daniel Liu
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