#ap mathematics

[inbetweencoffees]

You gave all that sweat and blood, now you think you're gonna drown

Somehow I am starting to like math. I don’t know why but I won’t complain either haha :) Math class was cancelled again so I completed the materials at home + managed to come up with a question to ask next lesson. I got my history exam back (80%) and received an A* for my oral mark, I’m really really proud of that!! That pride was overshadowed by the English lesson I had just before history though. Our current topic is „gender“ and the lesson was spent by my teacher presenting a badly researched, transphobic presentation. He went through the slides beforehand (they were created by one of his students a few years ago) and realised they weren’t correct, but nevertheless decided to use them…thanks for ruining my mood at 8 in the morning.

Finally got ~7h of sleep; physically I’m feeling okay, mentally rather not. School isn’t treating me too well atm.

[chococino]

When to study?

Is it better to study in the night or early in the morning? Either way, I hope my math hw gets done

[sageisntamathperson]

UPDATE

So.

Hi.

As all three people who follow me know (hi guys), I have begun a quest to start actually liking math. You guys came up with some awesome recommendations, some of which I have already checked out (A Mathematician's Lament review coming soon!), and I've decided that I will also use this blog to monologue about all of the crazy things Mathblr is helping me learn.

What will a complete novice such as I think of the tantalizing and mysterious science (?) of (gasp!) topology? Only time will tell!

(It's math about holes. I think? I don't know, folks. This is why I started to learn more about math in the first place.)

However, I'm afraid my original goal of getting into Calc 3 senior year is a no-go. Apparently, you have to take a whole year of Precalc as a prerequisite, which will fill up my junior year -- and I don't think they'll let me jump from Precalc to Calc 3. Not to mention that I discovered that Calc 3 is not, in fact, an AP class; so, as someone who's trying to get as many AP courses as I can and doesn't want to be an engineer, it's basically useless for me to take.

But! This does not mean I'm giving up on math. What I've learned so far is very interesting -- and math is still my only bad grade, so I definitely still need to improve. And not only am I keeping this blog going, I'm expanding it.

I'm the type of person who learns subjects by writing weird, opinionated stories about personifications of them. (Yes... I know.) So I've decided to use this blog to make myself write bizarre, wild things to study for Honors Chemistry and AP World History. You'll know I have a big test when you're slammed with a sarcastic-remark-filled yet educational sketch or short essay about one of the subjects. Sometimes it's the "Meet the Plastics" monologue, but with the Gunpowder Empires instead of Karen, Gretchen, and Regina. Sometimes it's a rant about how hydrogen is such a manic-pixie-dream-girl wannabe. (We get it, you're content with only two valence electrons! Why do you wanna be different so bad?)

I hope this helps not only me, but you guys too :) But you know what is NOT helpful? The fact that I'm doing this instead of math homework. I should probably close this tab now.

[thebluestbluewords]

happy holiday break, let’s talk class schedules

According to the Secrets of Auradon Prep tie-in book, AP runs on a rotating block schedule. Six periods per day, plus lunch. Pretty reasonable for a high school class schedule.

Homeroom once a week feels a little weird to me, but after an unofficial poll of some friends, it’s apparently not too uncommon for American high schools to only have it at the start of the week.

It’s sort of nice that the students get a study period every day, instead of having their free block/study block worked into the rotation with the rest of their classes.

In Mal’s Diary, we get another look at her schedule.

She’s in most of the same classes as the sample from before, but no chemistry class. Is Mal not interested in chemistry, or did Fairy Godmother decide it was more important for her to learn about evil fairies instead? Are there other “cultural history” type classes for other students, or did Fairy Godmother and whoever planned the class schedules for the other VKs just decide to pile on allll of the history/social studies classes for the VK to educate them in the ways of Auradon?

I think it’s funnier for me personally if Fairy Godmother received transcripts from Dragon Hall, looked at the VKs’ classes so far, and decided to say ‘fuck it’ on math and science classes, what these kids need is Auradon cultural education. Woodsmen, Fairies, Auradon History, and straight-up Goodness 101. One singular math class will take care of the rest, they’ll be fine.

[notpoet06]

Discrete Math Conversation

Teacher: how’s the problem set going over here?

Me: it’s going.

Friend 1: no, it’s not.

Friend 2: it’s not going at all, actually. Help

[kimblestudies]

08.27.23📚📐

-> my to-read has been moved to the side of my bed. i want to read before i go to sleep rather than watching videos like i usually do.

-> convergence/divergence homework and practice. working downstairs to keep my dogs company since they're scared of the storm.

-> a mixed media of a broken, burning home. i would rather do math than deal with that chaos all the time- easier to shut myself away in my studies.

-> it's rained all week and this window + spiral staircase is the most aesthetic spot in my house.

[online-physics-tutor]

Are you struggling with understanding complex physics concepts?

Do you want to boost your grades and gain confidence in your physics classes?

I’m here to help!

[multi-fandom-magic]

Currently crying over math (Calculus 2 and Stats)🥲

[tomorrowsunrise]

3+11 has such 15 energy

[sciencesolutions]

[northwind808]

Finding derivatives with respect to time instead of a variable be like:

why am i on tumblr. i should be doing math rn. eh

[mrmistoffles]

Guys, how did you make it through calculus cause like I'm just starting my ap pre calc summer assignment (very late I know) and like I had to stop on problem 27 because the goddamn Niagara falls started rushing through my eyelids, I could've filled the red sea with how much 27 questions of what is supposed to be basic algebra made me cry. If you took the class, how did you make it through it, please tell me your secrets

[lethalchiralium]

what is with COD tumblr and not going back to the basics of fanfiction. i want a good ol fashioned university au. i want them to all be different majors but they all are on the school’s athletic team (rugby, football, american football).

gaz is a theoretical physics major, TA for an AP maths class, he’s got a 4.0 gpa and always has. he is often found doing mathematical equations in his head as he works out. soap is a chemical engineering major, his minor in arts and specializing in drawing and ceramics. he’s been often kicked out of the explosives lab for blowing up some of his ceramic creations. ghost is a culinary major who takes it way too seriously, often pulling all nighters to get his creations right. he bakes bread before every important game in the season and rolls his eyes if anyone says it’s good. and price is a doctorate student in business, he’s already building a company from the ground up, yet he stills plays on the team because there’s nothing fun about sitting at a desk all day. (he loves simon’s cheese bread that he makes before every rival game day).

yes and they all share an apartment like shoresy. and yes, they all show interest in the team’s new assistant manager, you.

[cusimmrbrightside]

I have always liked the idea of the school for mutants being very literally a school, and I know yes it is but I mean in the sense of if you want to be an X-men, you have to be a teacher. They have exams at the end of years, they have Ofsted checks (for those who don’t know what they are, it’s essentially people coming to check that the school is good at being a school) and they have teachers for every subject, which brings me to my next point;

“I’m Right You’re Wrong, Here’s What The X-Men (‘97 specifically) Would Teach As Subjects”.

(Also this is based off of UK school system but I use American terms like “seniors” and “AP” and “Midterms”)

Maths Teacher Gambit is surprising, for a guy most assume to not being entirely smart, an idiot goof off who’s the comedic relief. But you need to know numbers to gamble, and that he does with being very well versed in mathematics way past an AP level. He’s made the promise for every senior class that he will teach them to play blackjack on the final day, and has only ever lost once. Which is when the rule of “no betting real money” came into place.

English teacher Jean reminds me of the kind of teacher who would let the social outcasts into her class for their lunch breaks. The kids more likely to be bullied and she will fight tooth and nail to make sure those kids bullies don’t come into that classroom. they’re loud and shout and shouldn’t really be in there but no one has to know and she certainly won’t be telling them to leave any time soon.

Physics teacher Magneto is very specific to my highschool experience I’ll be honest. I had a physics teacher who was an actual Dr with a PHD and he hated being there. His classroom has (well, had since the building was knocked down about 5 years ago now) this one cabinet that was never fully shut, it was always open just about an inch or two, and he’d stand with his foot hovering just above it and then slam down on it whenever we got too loud so the noise would shut us up. That’s very magneto coded. Erik Lehnsherr would purposefully make the cabinet always a little open so he can do that.

Biology teacher morph is just a funny concept, a person whose physical form and change and morph into just about anything. They are considered one of the “fun” teachers, you could easily convince them to let you watch a movie all class as long as it was biology centred, but with classics like Osmosis Jones, you’re not stuck watching a documentary about animals giving birth.

Chemistry teacher Storm does not fuck about with children’s education. She is not strict by any means whatsoever, she just will not bend to someone saying they want to watch a film or should do a practical instead of theory. She has a set curriculum. She knows what she will be doing by the first week of the summer holidays and already has the room set up all pretty and organised.

Geography teacher Scott has the unfortunate job of telling his students that, they just won’t be looking at memorising country flags and politics. But hey!! Rocks are cool!! Beach shores are cool! Lake formations are cool! He’s the vice principal and designated nerd teacher. He once beat the elite four for a student on their copy of Pokémon Red because the student promised they’d do well in their midterms. Yes, he was in his 30s when the game came out, he doesn’t care.

History teacher Logan is a walking fun facts book. He’s exhausted, goes on smoke breaks on every gap of time he has, dislikes his job and will randomly get passionate about one specific topic, and will then dedicate his next 4 classes to that topic. Having been through a lot of modern history with personal experiences, he’s able to bring a lot of souvenirs to show his classes. Bullets, helmets, clothes he once wore hundreds of years ago, his personal memories of basic inventions like the vaccine.

PE (physical education) teacher Rogue is full of fun sports games, you can join any kind of sports team you can imagine and if you ask nicely enough, she’ll put Just Dance on a projector in the sports hall so you can just play that instead of actually play an actual sport. As long as you leave her class exhausted and without time to have a shower before your next class then she’s succeeded in making whoever your next teacher is absolutely miserable (bonus points if it’s Logan with his enhanced sense of smell).

Art teacher jubilee does believe that there is a right way to critique art. And she can be a little in your face about it. She does think you can have wrong opinions especially when it comes to your own art. If she overhears you saying you didn’t something wrong, she’ll scream into a megaphone “adapt, improvise, overcome!”. There are no mistakes! She’s eccentric, bubbly, creative and brilliant, the only one suited for the job.

It wouldn’t be a school without budget cuts. That’s why Nightcrawler is both the languages and religions teacher and he’s beloved at both. He comes up with roleplay scenarios the students can play to help learn their chosen languages, he has varied religious texts in his room and when he says to the students “I’ll pray for toy during exam season” he’s not actually joking.

(I forgot about Hank I’m actually going to cry he’s one of my favourites and I forgot about him. He’ll be in pt two or smth.)

[quasi-normalcy]

So much has been written about science as a disenchanter of the world and technology as the driving force of modern civilization and the proximate cause of so much environmental damage that I think that it’s worth pointing out that a scientific mindset actually helps to situate you with respect to nonhuman nature in a way that a more romantic view cannot. An astronomer can watch the sun rise and fall and be intimately aware of their status as a tiny creature on the surface of a sphere that’s spinning around and around on its axis in vast, vast cosmos. Geologists can look at the inclusions and striations in something so mundane as a granite countertop and read an epic story billions of years in the making. Physicists can look at the waves in the surface of a pond and be overcome with the beauty of living in a universe replete with such mathematical regularities. And on and on and on.

So much about science as a tool for manipulating the world and so little about as a tool for edification. It can ground you against the shock of every grunt and twitch of human culture; remind you that in reality, it’s all just a temporary configuration in the social organization of one particular species of ape on one particular planet in a vast and endlessly fecund universe.

[tigersharkapologist]

Septimius Geta and Septimius Caracalla Headcanons

headcanons for these dorks because if I dont put this out there I’ll explode, also some au things in here⊹ ࣪ ˖

TW: mentions of child abuse and murder 𓃦

Geta 𓃭

- oh the angst on this one

- He grew up very insecure about his complexion, namely his hair. Not many in Rome were born ginger. He’d get compared to the barbaric tribes they were taking over.

- A lot of the elders would whisper about he and his brother being a bad omen from the gods.

“The last time we had an emporer who bore a fire branded mane, Rome was burning while a fiddle played.”.. they would say..

- He and his brother heard the stories of such evil rulers as bed time stories told by their mother, Julia.

- It was tradition for every heir to the throne to hear these in hopes that it would scare them into growing, well, not evil.

- Yeah this just gave them nightmares, caracalla frequently sought his brother for solace, wailing that one of the “vile ones” (past not so great sadistic emperors) was under his bed.

- Geta’s favorite snack is Enkhytoi!

- He and his brother would frequently raid the Head Chef’s kitchen for the sweet pastries.

- They were seldom caught in action, but you could always tell it was them due to the lingering scent of honey and the obvious crumbs on their faces.

- Geta did not care for roughhousing, but he LOVED exploring the outskirts of Rome when Pater and Mamma werent looking.

- He would, of course, bring Caracalla with him on these little adventures, but he usually had to be the cautious one since Caracalla would frequently stray too close to something dangerous.

- Speaking of Pater, they would frequently avoid their father, Emperor Septimius, to the best of their ability. He was scary, mean, and had a temper that would rival mars’ if the twins so much as looked weak.

- Geta was frequently name called “Maculosus” by his peers, as it wasn’t uncommon for him to be riddled with bruises on his arms and chest.

- These bruises are large, not made by tiny fists. It was very clear to those that saw his bruises that they weren’t made by his twin.

- The earliest these marks appeared on Geta and his twin were the age of 9.

- The Praetorian saw these bruises, time after time without fail. They did not like it. Not one bit.

- Anyway! Geta and Caracalla were uneducated in arts, sciences and mathematics. Very strange for up and coming rulers. Mamma and Pater were very neglectful in this aspect (as well as many others).

- Geta and Caracalla grew up longing and seeking for relationships that would fill their mommy issues specifically. (you can see why none of them worked out). They both use indulgence as a way to cope.

- His favorite animals are lions, all big cats (known to Roman knowledge), really.

- He has a “pet” lion named Mel. Mel is an undefeated champion in the Colosseum. He’s constantly pampered and overfed. Kinda chunky but that’s how Geta likes him. Sometimes, when Caracalla allows it, Mel gets to sleep in their room.

- Geta was a peanut allergy kid but grew out of it.

Caracalla 𓃸

- oh the angst on THIS one.

- favorite animals are monkeys and apes. Hence, Dondas.

- neurodivergent

- Dondas was given to Caracalla at the age of 15 and has stuck with Caracalla his whole life.

- Dondas is a comfort creature for Caracalla. She can tell when Caracalla is entering or is in one of his episodes and her presence alone is enough to comfort her hurting owner.

- Caracalla feels immensely guilty and angry towards Geta for his sacrifices. Geta, almost every time their Pater entered one of his rampages, took the hits meant for him (this is canon so not really a headcanon but still)

- Caracalla feels like he owes Geta something and he hates it. Many times he wishes it was him that took the blows, not Geta.

- Due to the pressures of the time, being protected in such a way instead of receiving the strikes himself made him feel “less manly” and weaker than his brother. He came to resent Geta instead of their abusive father.

- if I didn’t list stockholm syndrome before—the stockholm syndrome on this one somebody help him

- To protect himself, Caracalla’s mind has completely forgot all of his childhood (except the beatings and the—albeit rare—good times. This led him associating the good times with the beatings, that they must have done something bad to deserve “discipline”. That their Pater was very loving and cared for them deeply. )

- He developed syphilis at the age of 18 and dimentia two years later.

- He started suffering from lead poisoning at the age of 22.

- He has frequent visits with the medicus and healers. They tended to feel like family the more he went. They genuinely cared about his wellbeing, how strange. This was nice.

- His favorite food is anything from the sea. Snapper, grouper, flounder, if it swims it’s fair game. He also loves shellfish! He has had every type Rome could offer,, except for shrimp, which he has an allergy to. He will refuse to eat anything raw, however. Not for safety precautions—he couldn’t care less—it’s just gross to him.

- Yes, he shares his seafood with Dondas.

- Caracalla takes very good care of his hair! He spends 30 minutes every day preening it. Unfortunately, his efforts are to no avail when it comes to bed heads. He wakes up? Every effort wasted. But at least his bed head is fluffy and not at all crusty. Think highland cow.

- Another insecurity? Acne. He’s extremely insecure about it and hates the way it looks and feels. It hurts sometimes.

- He’s had acne his whole adult life, it just won’t go away.

- Back to his hair, like Geta, he’s insecure about its color. Even when many women have insisted that they thought it was gorgeous, with its red and gold hues, he still didn’t feel any better about it.

- Caracalla and his brother like to wear extravagant and expensive clothing to distract from the hair. They often wear their laurels for the same purpose (also they just think it looks awesome—it does).

- On a side note, Caracalla and Geta are terrified of the Praetorian. Yes, their very sworn protectors that are here only to serve them. The guard does a pretty good job, and the twin emperors have used them when necessary (for example when they almost got shot by a stray arrow)! But they both just cant shake the feeling that the Praetorian have it out for them (they do not). Though they would never admit it, the two see themselves as some of the worst emperors Rome has seen (the worst they’ve done is spend millions in tax payer money to fund for their Golden Parties and daily extravaganzas, not to forget the gladiator fights), and the Praetorian are notorious for taking out such emperors.

- They’re literally not that bad, there have been LEAGUES worse than them.

- Caracalla often has staring contests with random Praetorians to like? assert dominance I guess? A sort of “hey!! Im not afraid of you!! yes I am someone hold me.” The guards dont get scared by it they just get immensely concerned and confused as to why one of their emperors is death staring them into oblivion. It actually freaks them out so I guess the staring works.?

- As you can see the two have major paranoia issues.

- He commissioned a local carpenter to make Dondas a mini palace. Yes, he paid with tax money 💀

- He wishes he could spend more time with Geta. He’s usually out partying and indulging, but Medicus’ orders have put a restriction on him recently.

- He has night terrors often, one specific night terror involved him slitting his brother’s neck with the help of a certain Macrinus. (STOP LET ME HAVE THIS IT WAS JUST A DREAM CARACALLA KILLED GETA IN A DREAM THERE IS NO SEVERED HEAD SHUT UP SHUT UP Cries Sobs Vomits Throws Up Pees My Pants)

- Caracalla wants a mom

- Caracalla can sing very well! It’s a talent that very few know of—even his brother doesn’t know

- Impatient with himself and others

- Was accused of being the murderer of his father (he is not and actually heard his father’s dying cries at the age of 16, he was a floor above the murder. He was heavily affected by said murder. Geta was not.)

- Deep fear of dogs and anything resembling canidae features. He tried to order the removal of any and all Capitoline Wolf statues but was denied due to it being an integral part of Roman culture.

- The two above are related