Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for May 19, 2020

Used to know. Gone now.

Hopefully this type of home schooling will end by the fall.

To get a square root, you have to start when the plant is young and make sure the root is confined to a square box.

Never needed to find a square root in real life. Paul Simon 1973: “When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.”

smart phones have calculators, calculators have square root functions, go use your phone…

Why so we need to know?

I have a book (remember them?) that tells how to find CUBE roots with paper and pencil.

Brings back memories of my numerical methods class in college. You basically learn how to prove a series is equal to an otherwise impossible to calculate function on your calculator. Then proceed to use math libraries the rest of your life.

Is this a joke? You simply find the logarithm, divide it by 2, then take the antilog. How can anyone think that’s hard? :)

Dads can be such jokers.

I first learned about pi and area of a circle from the “pie are round” joke. I didn’t really understand it until 6th grade or so, though.

There really are square trees! I saw them when I was stationed in Panama. But I didn’t dig down to see if the roots were square. It was only the trunk.

Sounds like Calvin’s father.

If anyone cares – https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-a-Square-Root-by-Hand