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In a message dated 9/21/2005 6:33:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jlh44music@... writes:

Jann (off on a tangent too - OOOOOH a MATH word!)


lol... I knew that, but darned if I can remember what a "tangent" in math
is!

Jenny
Homeschooling in Greenfield
Danny (5), Kelsey (3) and Evelyn (1)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler
Yeats



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jlh44music

> Jann (off on a tangent too - OOOOOH a MATH word!)

> lol... I knew that, but darned if I can remember what a "tangent" in
math is!>>

Me either (and I'm one of those who loved math!)

Hey, I have the answer"

"go look it up"!
Jann

soggyboysmom

--- In [email protected], Saulithyia@a... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/21/2005 6:33:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jlh44music@y... writes:
>
> Jann (off on a tangent too - OOOOOH a MATH word!)
>
>
> lol... I knew that, but darned if I can remember what a "tangent"
in >math
> is!
>
A tangent is George Hamilton lol "tan gent" get it?

Okay anyhow a tangent is when a curve touches another curve at one
and only one point - like if you laid a board on top of a ball. "A
straight line that touches but does not intersect a curve" per
Webster's (expand line to include arcs and circles too like
balancing one ball atop another).

--Deb

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In a message dated 9/21/2005 11:15:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jlh44music@... writes:

> Jann (off on a tangent too - OOOOOH a MATH word!)

> lol... I knew that, but darned if I can remember what a "tangent" in
math is!>>

Me either (and I'm one of those who loved math!)

Hey, I have the answer"

"go look it up"!


But, I don't wanna... lol
Actually, I'm now curious...
Oh man... here's why I hated Math...
_http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tangent.html_ (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tangent.html)
That's a total foreign language to me!
I can't handle the REAL numbers and then math like that has to throw in
imaginary numbers... That's where I TOTALLY flunked math...

Jenny
Mom to Danny, Kelsey and Evelyn
Happily homeschooling in Greenfield
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese
Proverb


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In a message dated 9/22/2005 8:35:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
debra.rossing@... writes:

A tangent is George Hamilton lol "tan gent" get it?
***LOL!!


Okay anyhow a tangent is when a curve touches another curve at one
and only one point - like if you laid a board on top of a ball. "A
straight line that touches but does not intersect a curve" per
Webster's (expand line to include arcs and circles too like
balancing one ball atop another).

***Lot better than the definition I found! LOL Thanks!

Jenny
Homeschooling in Greenfield
Danny (5), Kelsey (3) and Evelyn (1)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler
Yeats



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Daniel MacIntyre

Wow! they do make it hard, don't they? Try this instead.

To get the sine of an angle, pick one ray of the angle to be the
hypotenuse. Then drop a line from some point on the hypotenuse to a
point on the other line where the other line and the new line are
perpendicular. The new line is considered to be "opposite" to the
angle and the other line is "adjacent" to the angle. Now the Sine of
an angle is the ratio of the length of the opposite line to the length
of the hypotenuse. The Cosine of the angle is the ratio of the
adjacent and the Hypotenuse and the Tangent is the ratio of the
opposite to the adjacent:

Sin = opp/hyp
cos=adj/hyp
tan = opp/adj

Hope that helps!

On 9/22/05, Saulithyia@... <Saulithyia@...> wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/21/2005 11:15:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jlh44music@... writes:
>
> > Jann (off on a tangent too - OOOOOH a MATH word!)
>
> > lol... I knew that, but darned if I can remember what a "tangent" in
> math is!>>
>
> Me either (and I'm one of those who loved math!)
>
> Hey, I have the answer"
>
> "go look it up"!
>
>
> But, I don't wanna... lol
> Actually, I'm now curious...
> Oh man... here's why I hated Math...
> _http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tangent.html_ (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tangent.html)
> That's a total foreign language to me!
> I can't handle the REAL numbers and then math like that has to throw in
> imaginary numbers... That's where I TOTALLY flunked math...
>
> Jenny
> Mom to Danny, Kelsey and Evelyn
> Happily homeschooling in Greenfield
> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
> Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese
> Proverb
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jlh44music

> > Jann (off on a tangent too - OOOOOH a MATH word!)
> > lol... I knew that, but darned if I can remember what a "tangent"
in math is!>>>

> A tangent is George Hamilton lol "tan gent" get it?>>>>>

LOL!

> Okay anyhow a tangent is when a curve touches another curve at one
and only one point - like if you laid a board on top of a ball. "A
straight line that touches but does not intersect a curve" per
Webster's (expand line to include arcs and circles too like
balancing one ball atop another).

Thanks for looking it up Deb, I was just too lazy!
Jann (who admits she LIKES math.....)

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In a message dated 9/22/2005 1:11:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
daniel.macintyre@... writes:

Wow! they do make it hard, don't they? Try this instead.

To get the sine of an angle, pick one ray of the angle to be the
hypotenuse. Then drop a line from some point on the hypotenuse to a
point on the other line where the other line and the new line are
perpendicular. The new line is considered to be "opposite" to the
angle and the other line is "adjacent" to the angle. Now the Sine of
an angle is the ratio of the length of the opposite line to the length
of the hypotenuse. The Cosine of the angle is the ratio of the
adjacent and the Hypotenuse and the Tangent is the ratio of the
opposite to the adjacent:

Sin = opp/hyp
cos=adj/hyp
tan = opp/adj

Hope that helps!





lol... my head is spinning... I still stumble on 7+5... seriously... I have
to think about that one.

Jenny
Mom to Danny, Kelsey and Evelyn
Happily homeschooling in Greenfield
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese
Proverb



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soggyboysmom

--- In [email protected], Daniel MacIntyre
<daniel.macintyre@g...> wrote:
> Wow! they do make it hard, don't they? Try this instead.
>
> To get the sine of an angle, pick one ray of the angle to be the
> hypotenuse. Then drop a line from some point on the hypotenuse to
>a
> point on the other line where the other line and the new line are
> perpendicular. The new line is considered to be "opposite" to the
> angle and the other line is "adjacent" to the angle. Now the Sine
>of
> an angle is the ratio of the length of the opposite line to the
>length
> of the hypotenuse. The Cosine of the angle is the ratio of the
> adjacent and the Hypotenuse and the Tangent is the ratio of the
> opposite to the adjacent:
>
> Sin = opp/hyp
> cos=adj/hyp
> tan = opp/adj
>
> Hope that helps!
>
This is a whole other use of 'tangent' in math/geometry/trig - that
makes it extra confusing because they use one word in two different
ways. I remember learning about SOHCAHTOA as a mnemonic to figure
this stuff out (and I've actually used it since high school!). But
that didn't seem to match the 'off on a tangent' discussion as well
as the 'touching at one point' definition. 'Off on a tangent' seems
to fit well to the idea of touching the conversation on one
point/idea/word/concept then going off in another direction instead
of intersecting, crossing into, following along with, the whole
conversation.

--Deb

soggyboysmom

>
> Sin = opp/hyp
> cos=adj/hyp
> tan = opp/adj
>
> Hope that helps!
> lol... my head is spinning... I still stumble on 7+5...
>seriously... I have
> to think about that one.
>
> Jenny
> Mom to Danny, Kelsey and Evelyn
Works best if you MAKE a triangle (cut your sandwich into two
triangles, that should work great). The hyp (Hypotenuse) is the oozy
side of your PBJ.

--Deb

Andrea L. Roher

On 22 Sep 2005 at 18:27, soggyboysmom wrote:

> --- In [email protected], Daniel MacIntyre
> <daniel.macintyre@g...> wrote:
> This is a whole other use of 'tangent' in math/geometry/trig - that
> makes it extra confusing because they use one word in two different
> ways. I remember learning about SOHCAHTOA as a mnemonic to figure
> this stuff out (and I've actually used it since high school!). But
> that didn't seem to match the 'off on a tangent' discussion as well
> as the 'touching at one point' definition. 'Off on a tangent' seems
> to fit well to the idea of touching the conversation on one
> point/idea/word/concept then going off in another direction instead
> of intersecting, crossing into, following along with, the whole
> conversation.

I'm in the "hate math" league with a weird twist. I loved Algebra.
I don't do the real numbers things well at all, but found that I
could manipulate those fake things pretty well (solve for x) until
they had me put real numbers in.

I had one good math teacher during my schooling (guess what part of
math he taught? :) ) who was a psychology major. He used to run on
intentional tangents whenever the class seemed to be mostly
distracted because there was a decent chance that we'd become engaged
in the tangent and follow him back when he went back on topic.

I will ALWAYS remember the definintion of a tangent, because of this.
:)

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In a message dated 9/22/2005 2:39:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
debra.rossing@... writes:

Works best if you MAKE a triangle (cut your sandwich into two
triangles, that should work great). The hyp (Hypotenuse) is the oozy
side of your PBJ.



Ok, if school had done THIS for me, I might have "gotten it" better LOL...
Thanks!

Jenny
Homeschooling in Greenfield
Danny (5), Kelsey (3) and Evelyn (1)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler
Yeats



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