Bye, bye, miss American PI.
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Maybe Vader some day later, but now it's just about prime.
What kind of problem gives you the formula and all variable to replace? At this point, why not just write 5•10²•10=?
Intro to algebra type stuff to make sure you understand the concept of variables in the first place
Pi= 5 in this teachers reality. Circles must look wonky.
It makes it easy to do the math in your head without a calculator. But still , just tossing out pi=5 is not the way to go about creating these problems.
...fractal circumferences can be whatever length you want for any given mean radius...
Even then, I would want them to leave π in the problem itself. That would be much better for this exercise - teaching that you report “exact” values with π still in them.
Eg, if I rewrote this problem, I would expect an answer of 1000π.
Cause reading comprehension is part of the test. Lots of kids will be able to solve that equation, but there's a bunch who can't understand it if it's presented this way.
Honestly here they should have done "round pi to two decimal places" or smth.
One written in Comic fucking Sans
This was written by an engineer. They rounded up to 5 for the safety factor.
It's official, the observable universe is ~3 times larger!
Ha Ha, non-Euclidian geometry go brr. :)
Man the Americans... everyone knows that π=-10
Nah, π = 3.2.
the Speaker accepted another member's recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could "find a deserved grave"
Lmao
What in the idiocracy
Think of the Loch Ness Monster and use tree fiddy and you're much closer
Ah said MONSTAH!!
It went to far and Beck.
Americans are more fat so they need bigger Pi to keep geometry in touch with reality.
I remember when Pi was monetized, that sounds like Pi Common, only $9.99/mo for 0 significant digits.
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It's probably trying to teach kids algebra without using decimals. But it does look messed up. Everyone knows at least 3.14, except kids I guess
My dad told me a rhyme to memorize like 15 digits of pi before I knew what pi is at like eight years old I'm guestimating. I remember it ever since.
... Yet refuses to share it with the world!
It's in a different language.
I don't understand. Aren't fractions better than decimals for algerba?
Like 22/7 is better than 3.14 when it comes to pi for example.
We always got taught to do everything as fractions and then convert to units at the last possible moment to reduce errors in rounding.
Kiddos would need to know how to divide for that though. I'm just trying to come up with a reason for it lol.
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