Ratios in a virtual world
Don’t underestimate the power of suggestion. After standing in a bus shelter for fifteen minutes, directly in the path of an exhaust fan from a pizza place; is it unexpected that we had a large all-dressed pie for supper? Now extrapolate to the hundreds of flush with cash students that congregate there every afternoon.
A sign that my work list is shifting into neutral: next week I’m scheduled to sort through a carton of older remote control units for long gone VHS and DVD machines. Bottom of the barrel. Maybe I’ll discover something rare, or at least, not covered in leaky battery goo.
We’re into ratio exercises. If 3/4 of an inch equals 1 foot, then is there space along that wall for the bookcase in the downstairs bedroom. Or something like that. The floor plans are in, and even if there’s a clear marking of “not to scale”…
Akin to the latest YouTube craze for Canadians. Does a large cup from Timmy’s hold the same amount as an extra-large? To which one should answer “it all depends!” I remember from an undergrad course of Piaget that some people never master the concept of a volume remaining constant even when the second container is a different format.
Sure, it doesn’t resolve the coffee riddle, but pouring in that double-double business changes everything. As does posting to YouTube. Life in the twenty-teens.
And now the weekend is upon us. Son #3 has to buy a pair of steel toed workboots before Monday morning, and he’s playing choosy about the merchant.
