If it's only a few seconds long, gifs probably are better than videos.

Is there supposed to be a missing line in the each sprite?

Grr. Wabbit won't play nice with this.  First, my GetProgName function fails in MathPrint mode (returns Str1="mean(", fixable, but annoying), then my icons all have that row missing, I forget how to fix that.

I was too lazy to just paraphase....

I wish I could do that, willrandship, that's really awesome.

BTW, a good way of fixing the problem with the pigs is to use barbed wire fencing.

I'd play with you guys on Minecraft if I could, but it looks like I can't use the free version to play with y'all.

I know the feeling quite well, Sir.

this is exactly how my teachers in elementary school taught the formula.

I didn't learn about finding the area of a triangle until Prealgebra in 8th grade. No wonder America's gotten behind in mathematics.

you can also point out that the sum of a triangle's angles are 180 and a square is 360 (360/180 = 2). a pentagon's angles sum to 540. it can also be divided into 3 triangles. 540/180 = 3

Interesting.

So I've always had problems remembering the formula for the area of a triangle. Until last night, when my mom pointed out that a triangle is half of a square, and suddenly it all made sense (she also remarked that she had had the same problem with that formula until someone had pointed that fact out to her).
It's not that we're missing the obvious. The reason is that math teachers don't (usually) explain the formula for the area of a triangle in those terms, and most people's brains are not wired to make the connection on their own, especially at the point in their development when they are first introduced to these formulas (in fact, the way math classes are often structured can even aggravate the problem, as the formula for the area of a square is introduced much earlier than the formula for the area of a triangle).

L x W = Area, where L is the length of the square and W is the width of the square

1/2 x B x H = Area, where B is the base of the triangle and H is the height of the triangle

For those of you who are more visually inclined:

HOLY NECROPOST BATMAN! Actually, not that bad, but still.  Zera doesn't come around here any more, I don't think.

In my defense, I can't start new threads right now while I'm at school for some reason. And I was kinda wondering the same thing, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to revive the thread. Of course, I also completely missed how oldish the thread was...

Well, my school hasn't started either. It's not unthinkable that hers might be similar.

Mine started yesterday, and my sister's started last week.