How to drive students batty

Chris Mihos · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 30

Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

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tom_sawyer70 · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 13

On Feb 26, 2:10 pm, Chris Mihos wrote:
> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

Don't you just cut it's hide into 1 inch squares and count them?

Constance Reeder · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 15

On 2008-02-26, tom_sawyer70@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2:10 pm, Chris Mihos wrote:
>> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
>> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.
>
> Don't you just cut it's hide into 1 inch squares and count them?

PETA will lend you their donkey for that if you ask nice.

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Bill Hileman · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 20

"Chris Mihos" wrote in message @71g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

Wouldn't have been more appropriate, then, to ask them to determine the
surface area of a bat?

Emperor Wonko the Sane · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 16

On Feb 26, 2:06 pm, "Bill Hileman" wrote:
> "Chris Mihos" wrote in message
>
> @71g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> > figuring out the surface area of a donkey.
>
> Wouldn't have been more appropriate, then, to ask them to determine the
> surface area of a bat?

Perhaps a praying manits would be even more fun.

Doug

Will Vaughan · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 6

"Chris Mihos" wrote in message @71g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

Drop it in a pool.

Randolph M. Jones · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 69

Chris Mihos wrote:
> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

That's easy. You just melt it down and then submerge it in the bathtub.

Randolph M. Jones · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 69

Will Vaughan wrote:
> "Chris Mihos" wrote in message
> @71g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
>> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.
>
> Drop it in a pool.
>
>

Eureka! But that will only tell you the volume...

Zaphod Beeblebrox · Joined: 02 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

Disculpa Senora Chris Mihos, pero did you really mime the following on
2/26/2008 2:10 PM???
> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

I thought you used goats?

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the_andrew_smith · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 50

On Feb 26, 2:10 pm, Chris Mihos wrote:
> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

BSA of people is something like sqrt of (ht * wt / 36000).

It's in one of my study protocols, but I don't remember it exactly.

a.

the_andrew_smith · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 50

On Feb 26, 4:41 pm, "Randolph M. Jones" wrote:
> Will Vaughan wrote:
> > "Chris Mihos" wrote in message
> >@71g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> >> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> >> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.
>
> > Drop it in a pool.
>
> Eureka! But that will only tell you the volume...

Plus, you gotta get it to the bottom.

Then subtract the volume of the concrete.

a.

John Rogers · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 152

You are only coming through in waves, Chris Mihos
... your lips move, but I can't hear what you're
saying...

>Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
>figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

Just another example of the blatant support of the Democrat Party in
acedemia!

John Rogers
AU Class of 1985
The Al Del Greco of Atlanta

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very
well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive,
we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build
your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a
gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will
follow ours." (General Sir Charles Napier)

Scott I. Ferrell · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Chris Mihos wrote:
>
> Give them a homework problem that involves, among other things,
> figuring out the surface area of a donkey.

Does that count the hooker atop the donkey?

Because I think that's a different equation.

SIF

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