Rational Acrostics
Kudos to Mrs. Armstrong for turning me on to the idea of acrostics in math.
Blogging Prompt
Your task is to create an acrostic "poem" that demonstrates an understanding of rational expressions related to any one of these concepts:
RATIONAL
SIMPLIFY
RESTRICTION
FRACTION
FACTOR
ASYMPTOTE
As an extra challenge (worth an additional bonus mark) try to make a Double Acrostic, that is, each line should begin and end with a letter of the word you are working with.
Remember, this is a bit of a race. Your answers have to be posted to the blog in the comments to this post. If someone has already used a word or phrase in their acrostic you cannot use the same word or phrase. i.e. It gets harder to do the longer you wait. ;-)
Here is an example of an acrostic that Mrs. Armstrong wrote:
Always in 2 dimensions
Region between the boundaries
Entire surface is calculated
Answer is in units2
Be creative and have fun with this!!
posted by Darren Kuropatwa @ 11/28/2005 09:27:00 PM
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R atio
A rithematic numbers
T he whole numbers, fractions,
mixed numbers, and decimals
I ncludes division of a
denominator
O nly the square roots of the
square numbers
N umber that can be expressed as a
fraction
A lgerbraic number
L ogical number
Kristin, typo there.
O - Only the square root of PERFECT SQUARE numbers.
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F ragment of a whole
R ational number
A mathematical "friend"
C ombine to form a larger sum
T win of a decimal
I ncludes a numerator and a denominator
O nly zero is restricted as a denominator
N umber involving integers as numerators or denominators
F ind the greatest common factor (GCF)
A number that evenly divides a given number
C holesky factorization
T rinomials are factorable
O ne of two or more numbers that multiply to give a third number
R ational coeificents must themselves be nonconstant polynomials with coeficents that are rational numbers
Uh, SAMUS? Do you know what a "cholesky factorization" is?
And that last one?
If you don't know what it means maybe you should redo C and R. ;-)
mr k.. who gets bonus so far?
C annot factor sum of squares
R ational numbers are used
Cholesky factorization has to do with a matrix that is like symmetric. And something else to do with some upper triangular matrix. It's named after Andre-Louis Cholesky. I looked it up in my math dictionary =).
I hope the new entries i put up are exceptable. If not, then I'll try to make up another one.
S -Solving questions is easier when you can simplify
I -Illuminates another way
M -Makes a problem easier to understand
P -Puts a question in perspective
L -Less difficult and complicated
I -Ideal to simplify before solving
F -Fundamental parts are reduced
Y -You can simplify x^2/x to just x
augh. you bums! lol
I agree with you anonymous! Everyone took all the good stuff!
sweet man this is the best page ever....(im a math freak)lol
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