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make an assessment. is it really about algebra? i think its a teen romance.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/keckles/algebra.jpg

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

ALGEBRA NONPLUSSED

― s/c johnson wax (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

I wish it was a teen romance, but there's a phd involved. It's supposed to, you know, appeal to today's youth. Fifteen years ago. But vests are totally back, so I dunno.

― kateorsini, Friday, 17 March 2006 01:26 (twenty years ago)

vests are back?! NOOOOO!

Wait, when was algebra actually plugged? I mean, not unplugged? Electric algebra? I don't remember that in the late 80s. I do remember patterned vests and coloured jeans, however.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

im hoping its a teen romance - about a girl who's on the mathletes team and is hoping to win the heart of one of the three boys pictured above. they think she's a hopeless geek, NATURALLY. but one of them PEGS HER, IN LIKE, THE THIRD TO LAST BOOK OF THE SERIES! "CALCULUS BEANIE BABIES" :)))

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

I'll wait for the Chinese version.

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

sequel: TRIG 201 UNPLUGGED

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

I think it is a hardhitting expose about Gang X and that girl being jumped in, where "x" is 3rd-rate accapella, "girl" is folk-busker and "jumped in" is wiped off the planet by the POWER OF MATH.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

I like yours though, Mandee.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

xx[xy+xy+xy] = 3xxxy

― estela (estela), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bek.no/~flemming/boobless.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Electric algebra? I don't remember that in the late 80s.

Don't tell me you haven't heard of the hugely influential Chigaco Algebra scene, championed by such artists as Frankie Formulae and [dj]x=[ok].

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

or: Calculator humour...
xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Jim Loats, PhD

http://clem.mscd.edu/~loatsj/jimfst.jpg

http://www.clearwaterpublishing.com/jim.jpg

I AM DOWN WITH THE KIDS AND THEIR CRAZY MATH SKILLZ VEST-WEARING STYLEEEEEEEEEE

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

HOTT
I want to see the Dr who wrote the ELECTRIC ALGEBRA BOOK. I want to see his hairstyle and his pointy shoes.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 March 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Chigaco should = Chicago in my earlier post. But I'm sure you knew that.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Friday, 17 March 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

please god dont let this be a text book

sequel to "are you there god, it's me, margaret."

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Loats is down with tha homies.

Sad, but - How else do you propose to get morons interested in mathematics? I don't think 3/4 (a really fair, maybe too fair, estimate) of the graduating class (about %50 graduation rate, to boot) at my HS pursued math beyond algebra 1. Then again, I went to HS in the ghetto in Los Angeles -- but it was among the best public schools (doesn't say much, but still.. you get the point)..

― kateorsini, Friday, 17 March 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

er, 50%

― kateorsini, Friday, 17 March 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Nice switch between fractions and percentiles there.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Friday, 17 March 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

See? I totally needed that book.

― kateorsini, Friday, 17 March 2006 02:56 (twenty years ago)

Was this the house band from Saved By the Bell?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha!

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

Apparently Amazong offers you a deal if you purchase it together with this title, by the same authors.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/096278155X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Here they are.

― kateorsini, Friday, 17 March 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

omg, Calculus for Cats!! I feel like I should start one of those Amazong wish lists just so i can put this on it!

I would read an updated version of "Algebra Unplugged". I would like to do the cover for them too. None of this attempt-at-cool stuff. No, algebra itself is COOL, you gotta BELIEVE, you gotta KNOW, and then you will sell, sell like hotcakes.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

im not sure this book could get me interested in math!

except the cover! OR if it had great illustrations/photographs.

i remember being REALLY entranced by the photos of dorky german teens in my german textbook - (called "KOMM MIT!")

http://www.bigstarcreative.com/images/german.jpg

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

i distinctly remember a rousing conversation between Holger and Fritz about what they do in their free time

and there was a corresponding videotape to go with the "Was machst du in deiner freizeit?" chapter wherein berlin teens were interviewed and they all seemed to like playing on their computers or riding their mopeds or playing chess. no drugs or sex! :(

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Ah! We had KOMM MIT in my deutsch h.s. class too! The video for the chapter on KLEIDER UND KAUFEN was very funny. Some (yes, abominably geeky) German kids were shopping for "ein T-Shirt mit dem Texas motif" which was weird because it was in Deutschland. The clerk asked the girl what size she would like and she said "LARGE" in a very exagerated german accent, the R must have gone on for a whole second. Consequently I say the word LARGE to myself a lot when clothes shopping alone.

Those books also had great comics which were recaps of the videos, with photos and word bubbles. The best panel was of a kitten in a garbage can saying "Miau!" in a giant word bubble.

The cover of the algebra book makes me worry that Linda Perry and Del Amitri are involved. I prefer Mathemagic land anyday to trick me into liking math. That or the video with all the comics where Paula Poundstone asks 'What's the deal with apples and oranges in story problems?' Hilarity! The sub always threw that on when Mrs. Heier got too sick to teach math.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 17 March 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

what does teh cats say in china?

― Dave NSFW (dave225.3), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)

abbott yr in denver too, right? you used to post under another name, yeah?

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:11 (twenty years ago)

ELECTRIC ALGEBRA!!! This is clearly the best thing ever.

I think I am going to write a musical based on this book.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Should be "MTVs Algebra Unplugged"

― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Starring
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002INN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Dave AKA Dave (dave225.3), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

OMIGOD, yes, of course! Followed by Calculus: The Rock Opera

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

we love the mathrock.

― Dave AKA Dave (dave225.3), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

It'd be like going to a lecture at the Royal Institution and then Newton comes out and starts rapping.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Ms. Wright, I've been in Idaho since I was 7. KOMM MIT rule the Rockies.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

This Algebra Unplugged picture is my latest favorite. Along with:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y285/keckles/img396_0.jpg

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 17 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

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