Math Related Christmas Songs

12/01/2015

12,012,015 is the hypotenuse of a right triangle: 12012015^2 = 7207209^2 + 9609612^2.


MATH RELATED CHRISTMAS SONGS:

If you haven't yet started gathering some festive songs to sing before you take your "Christmas Break" (you don't think they're really doing it for Isaac Newtons Birthday or just because it's winter - did you?) it's time to get on it.

Here are some web sites to check out:



Calculus Collapse (Winter Wonderland)--Jennifer Brevell

Calculus the Killer Math Course (Rudolph)--Russ Tilton

We Three Math'maticians (We Three Kings)--Clay Janca

We Three Students of Calculus (We Three Kings)--Edward Coles

Calculus Christmas Carol (Winter Wonderland)--Lisa Judkins

Calculus (Jingle Bells)--Ryan Barlow

Leibniz the Unknown Founder (Rudolph)--Jenna Hartmann

12 Days of Sir Isaac Newton

Samples from Math Horizon Magazine (This includes “Fill the Boards with Differentials” and “Oh Calculus, Oh Calculus”

http://www.calculus-help.com/calculus-carols/ (This includes “Riemann Sums”, “Derivatives, Derivatives”, and “Calculus Class”.

http://sites.csn.edu/gcohen/182/31_christmas.pdf “The Calculus Christmas Carol”

http://www.math.ucla.edu/~barnicle/carols.pdf (This includes: “Twas Just Before the Winter Break” ('Twas In The Moon Of Wintertime), “The First Derivative” (The First Noel), “We Three Dimensions (We Three Kings), “What Function Is This?” (What Child Is This), “Hark! The AP Proctors Sing (Hark, The Herald Angels Sing)”, “O Sum All Your Data” (O Come, All Ye Faithful), “O Little Open Interval (O Little Town of Bethlehem), “Look at the Board” (People, Look East), “All the Spivak I've Forgotten” (Of The Father's Love Begotten). “Joy to the Set” (Joy to the World), “Creator Alme Siderum” (Complex Analysis version), “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly” (Mathematical Logic version), “The Friendly Beasts (Abstract Algebra version), “The Gentzen and the Hilbert” (The Holly and the Ivy).

http://www.pleacher.com/mp/mpoetry/calcsng5.html  One song, “A Calculus Christmas Carol”, sung to the tune of Jingle Bells, and it’s a version I haven’t seen before.

http://homework.zendog.org/songsfall2004.html More calculus songs, and a few carols.  Worth checking out.

http://cchsindy.org/bird/Smart/Calc1/CalculusSongs01_17.pdf is a collection of Calculus songs, but not necessarily Carols.  Worth checking out.

http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com/2010/12/12-days-of-calculus-carols.html  This web site is hard to read (for us old folks) but it looks like you could copy the text and print it out in a much clearer form very easily.

https://sites.google.com/site/gdscalculuscarols/  Many interesting and original songs.

 David

Brain-0 Quiz Answers

11/30/2015

Answers to Last Fridays Brain-O Quiz:

1.  5 x 5 x 5 – 5 x 5 = 100.

2.  3 + 4 + 5 + 6 = 18.

3.  252 times.

4.  The letter “I”.

5.  He was wearing his uniform.

Update

11/28/2015

Sorry I haven't posted much lately.

I am dealing with issues with a stroke that I had.

I have a few more posts that I have already scheduled.

I expect to be able to start posting again soon.

Thanks

Mr. B's Brain-O Quiz # 35

11/27/2015

Mr. B’s “BRAIN-O” Quiz

Guaranteed to unclog clogged up brains!

NAME:__________________ DATE:____________ PERIOD:_______

Directions: Carefully read and answer the following questions.  Print your answer clearly in the box next to each question.  Questions are worth one million nano bonus points each.  However, if you get all five correct, we will double the points for a total of ten million nano bonus points.

1.		Write an expression that equals 100 using five 5's.
2.		Write 18 as the sum of four consecutive integers.
3.		A clock strikes the hour on the hour. It strikes twice on each half hour and once on each quarter hour. How many times does it strike in each 24-hour period?
4.		In New York City and in Chicago you would find the same thing in the middle of every taxicab.  What is it?
5.		A man went into a restaurant and ordered a plain cheeseburger with onion rings.  The waiter noticed that the man always picked up his cheeseburger with his right hand, but he always picked up his onion rings with his left hand.  The same thing happened the next day, right hand cheeseburger, left hand onion rings.  On the third day the waiter the waiter just had to ask, “Why do all policemen eat like that?”  How did the waiter know the man was a policeman?

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

- Voltaire

WARNING: For Educational Purposes Only.
Please do not attempt to answer any of these questions
unless you are willing to learn something.

Answers will be posted on Monday.

David

Happy Thanksgiving

11/26/2015:

11,262,015 is a composite, odd, deficient, and when written in binary using only 1s and 0s.

It is the short leg of a Pythagorean triangle: 11,262,015^2 + 1,764,562,728^2 = 1,64,562,719^2.  Remember this one for the SAT.

On the Fifth Day of Thanksgiving My Grandma Gave to Me
Five __________  ___________,
Four Crescent Rolls,
Three Servings of of Stuffing,
Two Turkey Legs,
and a Pumpkin Pie in my tummy.

Question: What did my grandma give to me on the Fifth Day of Thanksgiving?



David

Brain-O Quiz Answers

11/23/2015

Answers to Last Fridays Brain-O Quiz:

1.  It is true, five times $4.20 plus $2.00 is $23.00.

2.  888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000.

3.  They can have baby kangaroos.

4.  “wrong”.

5.  10 cents.