M's game today didn't turn out too well. She was kicked/trampled (?) after having already blocked the ball, which is not kosher in soccer. She ended up coming out of the game (it was right before halftime) and never went back in, and the other team scored afterwards and the final score was 1-0. Such a bummer. This meant no Game 4. Also the team manager got into it with the ref after the incident and that didn't end well either. Daddy was at the game and it sounded dramatic. M was a good sport about it but ugh. She seems unscathed other than a sore nose.
The girls participated in something called National History Day for their history class. A and Ellie did a presentation board about Henrietta Lacks and M did a paper about the women's suffragette movement. M's paper was chosen as a finalist for the school-wide National History Day competition and she has now moved on to the city-wide competition with a group of other students. Congrats!
Tomorrow the girls go to NCS for an open house day. ("Lord thy daughters pray thee, fit us one and all." That is the first line of the NCS school song, "Like A Polished Corner"). I predict they won't be hearing or singing that tomorrow.
The girls have written a rap for their math class, and they are now performing it to the tune of "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air". They are doing a lot of retakes and it is 11:29 PM and at some point they just have to wrap it up. Here is the rap:
Maddie and Alexa Feldman
March 12, 2018
Team Reykjavik – 6
Trigonometry Rap – to the tune of the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” Theme Song
Now this is the story from A to Z
About sin, cos, and tan – trigonometry!
And we’d like to take a minute just sit right there
While you learn about trig – which is what we’ll share
Music Break (18 seconds – 16 beats)
In NW Washington, born and raised
In a math class is where we spent most of our days
We learned about sine, a triggy function
It’s used with respect to an angle – a junction
In a right triangle to find a missing side
You multiply a known angle by the sine
To isolate the side use opp over hypo
To answer, use a calculator – go to Home Depot
Now, cosine is a little bit different
It does not mean it is insignificant
Instead of using opposite and hypotenuse
You’ve gotta put ‘a’ over ‘h’ to good use
Use the cos function and enter the known data
It solves a triangle, you can use this lata’
This last function does not include hypotenuse
It is the tangent and that’s used to deduce
You have to divide the adjacent by the opposite
This triangle-solving method is truly predominant
This can be remembered with SOHCAHTOA
It can help with your studies from here to California
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For example, when you’re staring at a tree with your face
You’ve gotta use tangent to find the length to its base
Multiply tan by the angle of elevation
Use the length from you to the tree in your computation
Multiply that by the product of the prior
You might want to double-check as a qualifier
That, my friends, is how you use tangent
Hopefully, this assists you on your mathematical mangent
Music Break (9 seconds – 8 beats)
Used in a right triangle – you must be thankful
Use the inverse of sin, cos, or tan to find a missing angle
That was the story from a to z
About sin, cos, and tan – trigonometry!
