Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 29, 2011
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Transcript:
Man: Look! I found my old protractor from middle school. We used to use them to make smiles. Woman: And they say our education system is broken. Man: And upside down it's a frown!
In school, I stayed with math all the way through calculus. There was NEVER a single assignment in any of it that called for a protractor, yet I probably owned a dozen of them through the years. The smile/frown thing was the protractor’s sole purpose.
Even when I was a teen protractors had gone out of style in favour of what we call “geometry triangles” over here, which is a protractor and equilateral set square in one.
I wasn’t able to figure out what those are called in English as Wikipedia links our Dutch page for the “Geodriehoek” to the English set square page.
I own a protractor because it once came with a pencil case I bought. Never used it.
pksampso about 13 years ago
In school, I stayed with math all the way through calculus. There was NEVER a single assignment in any of it that called for a protractor, yet I probably owned a dozen of them through the years. The smile/frown thing was the protractor’s sole purpose.
coffeeturtle about 13 years ago
the early emoticons?
Crabbyrino Premium Member about 13 years ago
Used them in geometry…another course that wasn’t a good fit.
J_Verschueren about 13 years ago
Even when I was a teen protractors had gone out of style in favour of what we call “geometry triangles” over here, which is a protractor and equilateral set square in one.
I wasn’t able to figure out what those are called in English as Wikipedia links our Dutch page for the “Geodriehoek” to the English set square page.
I own a protractor because it once came with a pencil case I bought. Never used it.
pouncingtiger about 13 years ago
He was home-schooled.