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(Message started by: THUDandBLUNDER on Jul 12th, 2006, 2:01pm)
Title: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jul 12th, 2006, 2:01pm
I was asked:
1) Who invented zero? [Would a Platonist ask "Who discovered zero?"]    :)

2) Why is zero important?

3) What is a placeholder?

4) What is calculus?

5) A cube is turned so that a corner is vertically above the opposite corner. It is then lowered into some water. In what order do the vertices enter the water?

Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by Icarus on Jul 14th, 2006, 4:04pm
1) no one.
2) Because it makes a great synonym for "loser".
3) something that holds a place.
4) a small stone.
5) the lowest ones go in first.

Really, what was hard about that?  ::)
Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by astony on Jul 17th, 2007, 2:51am

on 07/14/06 at 16:04:04, Icarus wrote:
1) no one.
2) Because it makes a great synonym for "loser".
3) something that holds a place.
4) a small stone.
5) the lowest ones go in first.

Really, what was hard about that?  ::)



Really Good points you have mentioned Icarus ..... Absolutely agree with you ..

Cheers


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Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by mikedagr8 on Jul 27th, 2007, 3:26am
My answers if i were asked this would my answers

1: the first person who discovered that they were poor

2: so the poor people can show others what being poor looks like

3: Same as Icarus

4: Calculon's younger brother (Futurama joke)

5: Same as Icarus
Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by astony01 on Sep 5th, 2007, 11:32am

on 07/27/07 at 03:26:34, mikedagr8 wrote:
My answers if i were asked this would my answers

1: the first person who discovered that they were poor

2: so the poor people can show others what being poor looks like

3: Same as Icarus

4: Calculon's younger brother (Futurama joke)

5: Same as Icarus


I am agree with mikedagr8 :), thanks

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Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by ThudanBlunder on Sep 5th, 2007, 2:34pm

on 09/05/07 at 11:32:26, astony01 wrote:
I am agree with mikedagr8 :), thanks

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Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 5th, 2007, 2:55pm

on 09/05/07 at 14:34:01, ThudanBlunder wrote:
Agreeing with mikedagr8 absolutely proves that you are only a spammer!


Yet I almost always agree with myself and I still haven't been conceived as a spammer...
Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by ThudanBlunder on Sep 5th, 2007, 3:46pm

on 09/05/07 at 14:55:14, mikedagr8 wrote:
Yet I almost always agree with myself and I still haven't been conceived as a spammer...

Only kidding, mike.
Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by mikedagr8 on Sep 8th, 2007, 3:54am
Look at the person agreeing with both Icarus and I. TB, you really do put double meanings into every opportunity. - Reference to other discussion about this.
Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by tiber13 on Nov 18th, 2007, 4:25pm
1) didn't some guy that's name started like Bracha use 0 to mean nothing?

2) ) is'nt important, after all, it's zero.
Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by HiddenHeart on Jan 17th, 2008, 3:56am
1,2,3,4--> are these trick question or just meant for fun ???


5-->
it was fun to image the experiment.

first the lowest vertex.

then the three 'dry vertices' that can be reached first from the lowest vertex by just walking along the edge.

then the other three 'dry vertices' except the top one.

then the top vertex.
Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by Icarus on Jan 18th, 2008, 8:01pm
I doubt that the teacher training interviewers were asking them for fun, but we were having fun with them.

If you want something more serious:

1) Earliest known references to zero were found in the Indus valley. But I am a Platonist in so far as I reject the idea that they "invented" zero. I would say that they may have first discovered it. There is reason to believe the Meso-american indians actually had the concept earlier, but the earliest definitive evidence we have is much later.

2) As a mathematician, I could spend all day answering this one. Suffice it to say that the real numbers would not be complete without zero. ;)

3) The "fun" answer here is also the correct one. A placeholder is a symbol that you put in an expression to represent a value that you do not know, or is not yet set. Most commonly, we use letters as the symbols for placeholders, and we call them "variables".

4) A "calculus" was a small stone used for voting in ancient times. In modern times it is used for the study of limiting behavior of functions.

5) As you said.
Title: Re: Teacher Training Inteview
Post by Moustafa on Mar 13th, 2008, 11:43am

on 07/12/06 at 14:01:32, THUDandBLUNDER wrote:
I was asked:
1) Who invented zero? [Would a Platonist ask "Who discovered zero?"]    :)

2) Why is zero important?

3) What is a placeholder?

4) What is calculus?

5) A cube is turned so that a corner is vertically above the opposite corner. It is then lowered into some water. In what order do the vertices enter the water?

1)Al-Khwarizmi : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi

2) To easy the counting of numbers, as they were in the indian numbers writing so many letters to say any number


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