FoxTrot by Bill Amend for November 02, 2008

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    margueritem  about 16 years ago

    Yeah, like I’m going to get out a ruler to measure pie slices…

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    Nipponkid  about 16 years ago

    Thats why theres guesstimating.

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    rayannina  about 16 years ago

    Somewhere, Danica McKellar is smiling.

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    Ray_C  about 16 years ago

    This is fabulous. My wife and I have been mentoring 5th graders for an hour a week, and this is their constant complaint: why do I have to study math? The second problem is really easier than the first. Cut the pie into six slices and give Peter 2. This makes 60 degree angles, which are easier to deal with. (You can skip one of the cuts to give Peter a single large piece rather than 2.) BTW, you would use a protractor to measure angles, not a ruler. Sorry to sound like a math geek, but I are one.

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    Calvinhobbes24  about 16 years ago

    I gotta write that trick down.

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    Pwnage  about 16 years ago

    lol

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    margueritem  about 16 years ago

    RayC says: BTW, you would use a protractor to measure angles, not a ruler. Sorry to sound like a math geek, but I are one. OK, then. Yeah, like i’m going to get my protractor out to measure pie slices.

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    Ray_C  about 16 years ago

    margueritem says: ” Yeah, like i’m going to get my protractor out to measure pie slices.”

    I would! But first I’d have to wash off the pizza sauce.

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    hcrobin85  about 16 years ago

    many basic types of math are useful..what I don’t get is upper level math like trig or calculus..now there’s something you don’t need in real life!!!

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    metawarr566  about 16 years ago

    “I are one?”

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    m_ortal  about 16 years ago

    Picture a clock. Every 5 minutes is 30 degrees, so 15 minutes is 90 degrees or a right angle. If you want 72 degrees, remember that each minute is 6 degrees, so 12 minutes on a clock face covers 72 degrees. BTW, we use trig and calculus as life-savers - if you can’t pass them, you don’t get into medical school.

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    bluetopazcrystal  about 16 years ago

    I guess RayC is a math geek not a literacy follower.LOL.

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    Sternvogel  about 16 years ago

    There are a lot of T-shirts printed with slogans like “I are getting an educayshun at State U” or “I never thought I’d be a college graduate, but now I are an English teacher!”

    I’m guessing Ray C was thinking in that vein, although it would have been even funnier had he said “but I are two”, thus being both gramatically and mathematically incorrect!

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    IDIOTIDIOTIDIOT  about 16 years ago

    funny. common scenario at my house.

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    Ray_C  about 16 years ago

    Sternvogel says: “There are a lot of T-shirts printed with slogans like “I are getting an educayshun at State U” or “I never thought I’d be a college graduate, but now I are an English teacher!” ” I’m guessing Ray C was thinking in that vein, although it would have been even funnier had he said “but I are two”, thus being both gramatically and mathematically incorrect! Thanks for standing up for me, Sternvogel. I was thinking of the tee shirt, “Last year I cudn’t even spell injuneer, and today I are one.” Can’t win ‘em all, I guess.

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    margueritem  about 16 years ago

    Ray C says:

    Sternvogel says: “There are a lot of T-shirts printed with slogans like “I are getting an educayshun at State U” or “I never thought I’d be a college graduate, but now I are an English teacher!” ” I’m guessing Ray C was thinking in that vein, although it would have been even funnier had he said “but I are two”, thus being both gramatically and mathematically incorrect! Thanks for standing up for me, Sternvogel. I was thinking of the tee shirt, “Last year I cudn’t even spell injuneer, and today I are one.” Can’t win ‘em all, I guess.

    I understood what you meant. Like minds, I guess.

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    zerotsm  about 16 years ago

    Well, I use trig all the time, calculus less so, but that’s for work, not “real life”.

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    circuit7  about 16 years ago

    I call my kids whenever I find myself needing it at home. They don’t always know the answer but when I show them, they know. From my 19yo to my 6yo, the question “Why study math” has never been asked in my house.

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    mrhippey  about 16 years ago

    Math IS everywhere. AND The point of learning math is not the same as learning how to write. Math teaches abstract thinking - a skill that is utilized in many different fields.

    –Journalist (also Wife of a High School Math Teacher)

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    LateToTheGame  about 16 years ago

    Actually Marguerite, you’d want a protractor, or maybe even a compass if you wanted to challenge yourself. Not much could be done with a ruler. :)

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    Llywus  about 16 years ago

    Not much could be done with a ruler. :) As a straightedge - gotta get those slices cut cleanly! lol

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    tobybartels  about 16 years ago

    Using only an unmarked compass and straightedge, can you make 72-degree angles? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass%20and%20straightedge%20construction

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    danalfranks  about 16 years ago

    This is no joke… I just watched my math major sister cut my dad’s birthday pie into equal pieces for 9 dinner guests. Stared at it a moment, went to work, and it came out perfectly. Geesh!

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    Calvins_older_Sister  about 16 years ago

    i know that feeling so well -o- “sigh”

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    jabo  about 16 years ago

    Substitute by the WHO! Jabo

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    mathhead  about 16 years ago

    Why do they make us study math is school?

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    seapilot  about 16 years ago

    notice how the leaf in the picture in the background flips around in the different pannels?

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    Requin  about 16 years ago

    I wouldn’t be able to live without math <3

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    runar  about 16 years ago

    Jason would have solved the problem using something other than base ten.

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    KingRat  about 16 years ago

    and if peter solved it there would be no pie.

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    MusicLoveTheatre17  about 16 years ago

    este es uno de mis cómics favoritos en el mundo entero! Estoy totalmente de amor este comic porque me hace reír!

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    abel_larkin  about 16 years ago

    Equal Angles

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    theoneandonlyliam236  almost 5 years ago

    Is no one going to give the answer?Ok I will, cut it in four 60 degree slices, and then a fifth slice that is 120 degrees. Just in case someone hasn’t learned that math yet lol,

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    Exodush  over 4 years ago

    i thought paige was stupid

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    The Ever-Convenient Object's Shopping Mall  about 4 years ago

    Cutting it into six slices is easy, then just give Peter two of them.

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