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Re: [math-learn] Fraction cartoon - warning: for oldies only!
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Mar 20, 2011 1:18 AM
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This looks like something I'd like to see but I don't have
quicktime. Do you?
I remain, my friend, as I have always been and shall ever be,
your most humble and obedient servant,
don pfaff
Quoting ArPeEs@aol.com:
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> It's a wonderful little movie, called the "Weird Number."
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> See the link:
> http://www.ciese.org/ciesemath/number_town.html
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> Richard Strausz
> Southfield, Michigan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rex Boggs <rexboggs5@optusnet.com.au>
> To: math-learn <math-learn@yahoogroups.com>; AP Calculus
> <ap-calculus@lyris.collegeboard.com>; AP Statistics
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> Cc: Bernie O'Sullivan <bernie.os@bigpond.com>
> Sent: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 6:08 am
> Subject: [math-learn] Fraction cartoon - warning: for oldies only!
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> For the AP teachers ? this is off-topic. But, heck, read it anyway.
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> I received the email below from a teacher in Australia.
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> I remember the cartoon well, even though I only saw it once - it was
> a fantastic cartoon. I especially remember the ending, where there
> were rumours of mysterious numbers living in the surrounding
> mountains that couldn?t be written as fractions ....
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> Sadly I haven?t seen it for like 20 years+ though.
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> Any idea where/how we can track it down? Anyone else remember it?
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> Cheers
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> Rex
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> From: Bernie Osullivan
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 2:49 PM
> To: AAMT list community
> Subject: [aamt-l] fraction cartoon
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> Can anyone help? I?m trying to track down a cartoon from years ago
> on equivalent fractions. It?s in the same vain as Donald Duck in
> Mathmagic Land.
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> In a nutshell, it?s about a town where only positive integers live.
> No one stole because they would get caught as they only stole
> according to their number. ie number 2 would steal only 2 of the
> item, never three etc?
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> One day, a half of something went missing?you get the picture.
> Eventually fractions were allowed into the town by the other
> citizens, but the half kept causing trouble, but people could never
> find him as he would change into 2/4 to avoid detection.
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> I hope I have given enough info. If you know the title and its
> location please let me know.
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> Bernie O'Sullivan
> Head of Mathematics
> St Luke's Anglican School
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