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smash_logs2013-08-02 08:25 pm
trustycrowbar) wrote in smash_logs2013-08-02 08:25 pm
Pre-semester Math & Science 'Stravaganza [Open!]
Who: Gordon, Eirika, Mac, all other interested students, anyone who wants to sit in.
What: The much-requested booster classes in math and science
Where: Gordon's teaching lab
When: Sometime during the summer IDK
Warnings: Improper integrals. Scandalous!
Th summer gets away from us fast. Before we know it, the grass and brushes are looking tired, their blooms faded and unenthusiastic, and the leaves lens-flare green, overblown and spent. Gordon had scheduled the brush-up classes to be around this time, so that his students would have it fresh in their memory for the next semester which was mere weeks away.
They were less structured than his normal classes. Topics came as the students asked about them. Attendance wasn't even required for all sessions; Gordon had faith that if they had something better to do that week, then they'd show up later.
(It said a lot that he actually had faith in his students now. It's a far cry from the privileged trust-fund junior engineers at MIT.)
Basically... it was less a class and more a club. They'd meet up, and chat about science. Gordon himself realized that during the very LAST session in fact, but he kept it to himself with a quiet snicker before he stepped into the room.
"Morning, class. So, what have we got this morning?"
[OOC info: the open-forum structure means any character can tag in with a topic they want to know more about, and Gordon will do his best to answer! Feel free to hijack threads all over the place, have them discuss it between each other, chat about random stuff and disrupt the class, spread rumors, flirt, WHATEVER.]
What: The much-requested booster classes in math and science
Where: Gordon's teaching lab
When: Sometime during the summer IDK
Warnings: Improper integrals. Scandalous!
Th summer gets away from us fast. Before we know it, the grass and brushes are looking tired, their blooms faded and unenthusiastic, and the leaves lens-flare green, overblown and spent. Gordon had scheduled the brush-up classes to be around this time, so that his students would have it fresh in their memory for the next semester which was mere weeks away.
They were less structured than his normal classes. Topics came as the students asked about them. Attendance wasn't even required for all sessions; Gordon had faith that if they had something better to do that week, then they'd show up later.
(It said a lot that he actually had faith in his students now. It's a far cry from the privileged trust-fund junior engineers at MIT.)
Basically... it was less a class and more a club. They'd meet up, and chat about science. Gordon himself realized that during the very LAST session in fact, but he kept it to himself with a quiet snicker before he stepped into the room.
"Morning, class. So, what have we got this morning?"
[OOC info: the open-forum structure means any character can tag in with a topic they want to know more about, and Gordon will do his best to answer! Feel free to hijack threads all over the place, have them discuss it between each other, chat about random stuff and disrupt the class, spread rumors, flirt, WHATEVER.]
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And she's doing better with math than she was when he first began tutoring her. "I understand. Patience and practise, right? Even through frustration." She smiles to him graciously.
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He isn't sure if he's answered her question, but he seems to have encouraged her well enough. "Now then, let's try another one."
He scrawls a simple one on the board.
"What would X have to be that would make the whole thing equal zero?"
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Perhaps she'll be able to use this kind of information for something in Magvel.
"Uh..." Her head inclines to write some of her notes neatly onto her notebook before she looks back at the board. "Well... if it equals zero... 'X' would need to be... uhm. Negative... two?"
Why did negative numbers even exist, again? Math is still dumb.