Month: April 2020

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Stress Baking

Yesterday I was working on the new Khan Academy assignments I had for Calculus, but after multiple attempts and not being able to complete them with a good score, I got stressed and went into TikTok where I found an easy recipe for Peanut Butter and Chocolate chip cookies, so since I had nothing else to do, why not give it a try? It looked simple.

Trust me I have never in my life baked before so this quarantine has got me trying new things to entertain myself, so it was actually pretty fun. Besides, I got to spend time with my mom by doing it so that’s good!

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Daily Puzzles

Similar to everyone else in the world, our lives have been drastically changed from the recent events that have occurred in the past few weeks revolving around the pandemic. We have been forced to change our ways of life, encouraged to quarantine within our homes. As for myself, while boringly seated on my couch during such quarantine, for the last week or so, I’ve looked forward to one text message each day more than any other: the Daily Puzzle text from my grandmother.

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How’s Life and Math?

My phone buzzed for the tenth time in less than a minute. My Grandma learned what a group chat was, and made one for the entire family. When thinking about what to post on this blog, I considered the name of this website for inspiration. Using the power of group text I decided to ask them that question. Here is what they said when asked “How’s Life? How’s Math?”

Good

My Brother Alex

A man of few words, Alex managed to answer both questions with a single word. Impressive work.

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Math in the Media

While we’re at it, here’s another prompt we wanted to start off with: tracking mentions of math found in news and other media outside the classroom. As I referenced in an earlier post, this pandemic has thrust lots of statistics, charts, graphs, and calculations into the public eye. If you see any interesting articles, graphics, etc. related to math, go ahead and post a short description with a link and/or screenshot under the tag “Math in the Media.”

I’ll get the ball rolling with an interesting article I saw today on one result of the worldwide lockdowns that I hadn’t previously considered.

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Socially Distant Activities

With so many people discovering new hobbies or rediscovering old ones in the midst of this pandemic, Sarah and I thought a great first prompt for this blog would be #sociallydistantactivities. Just make a quick post about any activity you or someone you know has taken up while stuck at home and throw on the “Socially Distant Activities” tag under the “Tags” menu.

Here’s an example of my own isolation-induced pursuit: the other day, inspired by boredom, nostalgia, and a log cabin-like house I passed on my run, I broke out my childhood Lincoln Logs and started building a village.Hopefully, with a couple more months of social distancing, I can craft a Lincoln Log metropolis, though I suspect I’ll run out of logs first.

My work so far