yay finally last part!!!Show me a Sine - Franklin Gervacio (Math Rap 2008)
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So, after almost a month of hard work, and not to mention a couple of roadblocks along the way, I give to you my math rap for the Deer Valley High School Math Rap 2008 Competition.
*Update! I won the math rap contest! Whoo hoo!
Check out Billy Spivy’s!
“Show me a Sine”
Lyrics by Franklin Gervacio
Music by Joshua Ramos & Franklin Gervacio
Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Pak
(Verse 1)
Back to the days of the countin’ on the fingers and toes
Adding, subtracting and multiplying down all them rows
Cause we chill from 93 ’til infinity, feelin’ me
Graphing parabolic functions reachin’ up ’til eternity
The sum of arithmetic sequences, we solve it fast
It’s easy once you add the first term to the last
Take that sum, multiply by half the terms you got
Forget your calculator cause we drop it like it’s hot
Movin’ on dividin’ fractions, easy as pi (3.14)
You just flip the bottom and you multiply
It’s the F to the O to the I to the L
Binomial Distribution, yeah this time’s for reals
So just Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
She don’t know that this is how we chill up here in Nor-Cali
With the points and lines and the numbers through the roof
Side steppin’, double checkin’ postulatin’ my proof
Sound waves in your ear, it must be a sine
I’ll be spittin’ on this math rap ’til the end of time, c’mon
(Chorus)
Hey! Hey! Hey! We solved it
Show me a sine
Hey! Hey! Hey! We got it
Show me your sine
Hey! Hey! Hey! We solved it
Show me a sine
Hey! Hey! Hey! You know it
Mathematical rhymes
(Verse 2)
Spittin’ straight knowledge, I make it my life
I be bustin’ all them fractions like my pencil was a knife
No need to fear, your math savior is here
Calculatin’, Graduatin’ at the end of this year
Shootin’ like a ray, one end point, the other goes
Euclidian geometry, where it ends nobody knows
Complementary, Supplementary, 90 to 180
360 like a circle, triangles don’t even faze me
Permutations, Combinations, Order of Operations
Negative square roots is all imagination
Solvin’ Rubik’s Cube’s with perfect algorithms
Don’t even try to lie, you know rockin’ to this rhythm
So listen, it’s simple once you know
Math is the same wherever you will go
So here’s someone with a little thing to say
Just spittin’ a little wisdom en françias
*(French!)
Je m’appelle Pierre; Je suis l’homme de la Terre
Les Mathématiques, ça çe que j’aime faire
À mon Lycée, yes, every single day
Finis mes devoirs je suis expert de la pays
Duex et duex fait quatre, l’addition c’est façile
La réel problem de la vie, c’est diffiçle
Form exponetielle, j’écrit tout le temps
Isolatin’ variables, leading coefficients gone
Est-ce que vous comprenez the things that I say?
Est-ce que tu sais that I hail from the bay?
Completin’ squares, I swear I don’t swear
Calculations so sexy you can’t help but stare
(Chorus)
Hey! Hey! Hey! We solved it
Regardez-moi
Hey! Hey! Hey! You know it
Les Mathématiques
(Verse 3)
Rocking conic sections from the first to last
Graphin’ out hyperbolas, sketchin’ asymptotes fast
Far from circular with elliptical eccentricity
Casting lucid shadows through the laws of perfect symmetry
Central Limit Theorem, relating samples in the end
Is your graph a function? The line test is your friend
Solve a system and you’ll know just where they intersect
Need help with trig? Haven’t got there yet
Done so many operations I’m doctor Math
You’ll be needin’ serum soon, spreading knowledge like the staph
I’m 3 standard deviations from the central mean
Doin’ all my homework in pen, cause my logic is so clean
Compound interest keeps me goin’, constantly I keep on flowin’
Like an exponential function, I just keep on rollin’ going
Don’t forget to simplify, common factors need to go
Breakin’ down dividin’ right, that’s all you really need to know
Inductively, inductively, this concludes my verses 3
Presented here exclusively, brought to you by Franklin G.
(Chorus)
Hey! Hey! Hey! You know it
Show me a sine
Hey! Hey! Hey! We solved it
Show me your sine
Hey! Hey! Hey! You know it
Show me a sin
Hey! Hey! Hey! We got it
Mathematical rhymes
*Translation:
My name is Pierre; I’m the man of the land
Mathematics, that’s what I love to do
At my high school, yes every single day
Finish my homework; I’m the expert of my country
Two plus two is four, addition is easy
The real problems of life, that’s difficult
Exponential form, I write that all the time
Isolatin’ variables, leading coefficients gone
Do you understand the things that I say?
Do you know that I hail from the bay?
Completin’ etc…
Duration : 0:4:44
Please give me a few mental maths questions for a Mental Mathematics Competition ?
Author: admin // Category: maths competitionsThey should be of a good level for Grade 9 or 10 ie. Class 9-10th of a really high level ie. for 14 -17 years old students.
You could do conposite functions, maybe? or possibly find the area of a circle on the cartesian graph. using linear equasions and trig fundamentals. Or i dunno, precalculus stuff? or higher.
Would I have much chance of completing a mathematics degree without being naturally good at it?
Author: admin // Category: difficult mathematics problemsFrom reading personal statements it seems that a lot of people who apply to do maths at unis do so because it's what they're best at… personally I only became truly interested in mathematics when I was 16 and immersed myself in the beauty of it outside of school (the internet is indeed a great resource for self-study). Since then (I'm 17 now) I've become crazy about it, completely turning my maths grades around from bad to excellent at school, and always reading about new things at home. Thing is, I don't think I have a great "scientific mind" - I can solve difficult problems but I imagine I probably take longer than most people. I am also easily "intimidated" by complex maths on first impression sometimes until I can have time to think about it properly. I'm afraid that I'll end up being surrounded by people who can breeze through on natural ability while I'll struggle to get a decent pass, but I don't want to do anything else. Any advice would be appreciated…
A) did you learn your multiplication tables? really well? if not, it's time !!!!!!
B) when you take your first calculus course, you'll know. it's new for everyone — you start out even. if you have serious trouble there, you might consider switching.
Trailer for the film Hard Problems: The Road to the World’s Toughest Math Competition. Hard Problems is a feature documentary about the extraordinarily gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world’s toughest math competition—the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
hardproblemsmovie.com
Duration : 0:3:47
“Fermat’s last theorem is strikingly different and much more difficult to prove than the analogous problem for n = 2… The fact that the problem’s statement is understandable by schoolchildren makes it all the more frustrating, and it has probably generated more incorrect proofs than any other problem in the history of mathematics. No correct proof was found for 357 years, when a proof was finally published by Andrew Wiles in 1994. The term “last theorem” resulted because all the other theorems proposed by Fermat were eventually proved or disproved, either by his own proofs or by other mathematicians, in the two centuries following their proposition.”
From Wikipedia
This is Part 4.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGOxGEbaik
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZliJKFWzLYw
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYL9B_rfrY
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXkES1bY0SI
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WTcZr-_PWM
Duration : 0:9:51
Are there any math competitions?
Like AMC8, 10, 12…etc
I want to try those competition because I want to have good things for my college application. I'm in 7th grade, and I want to try some math competition(again). Well, AMC 8 is the most common one, but is there anything that is not that common? Something that I can try right now. Or any math competition before September, 2008. If you have an enough information, I will give you 10 points!! Please, help me help me and help me!
Oh, I'm in California, US
Not sure where you are located, but there is an interscholastic competition called Mathletics in the US, UK and Australia.
Physics/mathematics historical trivia question?
Author: admin // Category: difficult mathematics problemsA young female student, because of a particularly difficult calculus problem and an insensitive professor, turned from mathematics to physics. Who was she?
If you copy and paste this sentence: A young female student, because of a particularly difficult calculus problem and an insensitive professor, turned from mathematics to physics. into Google the 2nd hit on the list will give you the answer. Hint: she has an element named after her.
FunnySesame Street - As I Was Going to St Ives
Author: admin // Category: difficult mathematics problems
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/As_I_Was_Going_to_St._Ives
First Appearance: Episode 0045
January 9, 1970
As I Was Going to St. Ives is a nursery rhyme which has been around since the 1700s, though the subject has been thought to originate from the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.
It was performed as a song in the first season of Sesame Street. Two Anything Muppets, a boy (performed by Jim Henson) and a girl (Frank Oz), test each other’s wits as he tries to get her to solve a difficult math problem. She ends up turning the tables on him by asking him how many were going the other way.
Duration : 0:2:35