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Thursday, February 11, 2010

"Jacob" Means "Deceiver"

It really does, which begs the question "Why is it such a popular name then?" During our math lesson this morning we discussed the concept of congruency. I would make a shape and he would then produce a congruent shape on his geoboard. I hyperlinked it to dictionary.com just in case you non-math types need a definition. Just a little service we offer...

Anyway, I would make a shape like this:
and he would produce the congruent shape on his board. I offered to let him be the teacher and make the shape for me to copy and this is what I get:
Congruent effort? I should say not.

1 comment:

EmilyAnn said...

Well I would say Jacob should mean overachiever. Where's the deceit in that??