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Motion Sickness from Math

November 22, 2017Original blog post

A teacher races from squares straight to hypercubes, and a student asks whether you can get motion sickness from math.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-11-22-motion-sickness-from-math/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

Teacher at a board (square: A = s², P = 4s; hypercube: V₄ = s⁴, V₃ = 8s³): "All right, that does it for squares! On to hypercubes…" Student: "Oog… can you get motion sickness from math?"

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