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Monday, October 3, 2011
High School Geometry
The teacher always said I would use geometry. It was everywhere. I couldn't get away from it. Truthfully, I hated it. My grades were decent, but I always dreaded going to that class. If I don't understand why something works (like geometry proofs), I will not retain it nor fully understand. Anyway, finally made it out of that class and never looked back until now. We have recently remodeled our bathrooms, and I had a brown shower curtain that was fairly new prior to the remodel. It did not go with the new color scheme, but I hated to get rid of it. It was a gift from my sweet daughters. So I hung onto it. When the fall decorating bug hit, I made the burlap runner in the picture. I felt like it needed something else. It finally occurred to me that I could make the freshly laundered, rectangular brown shower curtain into a round table cloth. As I folded and pinned the shower curtain into a square, and marked my arc where I would cut, I realized I just used my tenth grade geometry lessons. I'm not sure my teachers would be proud since it's several decades later, but they were right! I did use geometry. Woowhoo
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Shout out to you...blogging again! I liked this post, can't wait to see it live and in person, hopefully sometime soon. I like it...and I don't think I retained enough geometry to attempt anything circular.
ReplyDeletehahaa, I hated geometry too. I did better in calculus than geometry. That's why nobody lets me pack the car for a trip! I don't even remember what proofs are. Good job on the table cloth and runner. They look great!
ReplyDeleteNo kidding...calculus-99/A, geometry-80/B (why do i still remember those grades?)
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