I can top all of this. During the second math camp, I brought up the topic of
pentominoes. One question we looked at was whether a given pentomino is capable of tiling the plane -- i.e. forming an infinite, regular tesselation. Some cases are easy to check, such as the pentomino which is just five squares in a row. The more complicated pentominoes take some thought. In particular, I suggested that they try the S pentomino:
(This is also called the N pentomino; I prefer S.) But you have to be careful, I warned them. After all, it's sort of a snake. And there are few things more dangerous than SNAKES ON A PLANE.
And they
didn't get it!
Yeesh. What are we teaching kids these days?
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FiveMinute.net: because stuff is long and life is short
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FiveMinZeke: Galactica clearly needs the advanced technology of
scissors, which get around the whole "yanking on your follicles" problem.
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IJD: cylons can hack any blades working in conjunction