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Subject:	Re: Look what you can build in twenty minutes!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.edu
Date:	Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:04:11 GMT
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In lugnet.edu, Edward Welsh wrote:

Perhaps I should elaborate. Last semester, our Calculus III students learned double integration the old-fashioned way. They each built slices out of Lego bricks using instructions I whipped up; when they lined up their slices (with the help of letter tiles), they ended up with the surface defined by z=7+6cos(x^2+y^2). Isn’t that great?

Geez, if my instructor used LEGO to demonstrate integration, I’m sure I wouldn’t have struggled as much in my university math courses...

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		Look what you can build in twenty minutes!
Here's the result of a twenty-minute building frenzy: (URL) What is it? A big blue castle? A very wobbly ocean? A sombrero? No! It's a cosine. Really and truly. Here's how I built it in twenty minutes: 1) I didn't build it. 2) I had students build (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.edu, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!

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