Just when you think you are safe, school math comes back to haunt you!
When I was in Grade 8 I had a particular dislike for math class. I even went as far as creating a picket sign declaring “UP WITH LEARNING – DOWN WITH MATH!” Which now that I think of it, didn’t make sense at all!! That all changed in high school when my teachers suddenly parted the clouds for me and math became fun.
Naturally after graduating high school and then university (where my best grades came from calculus and French – conflicted brain, yes?) I figured I’d never use math again….
… UNTIL TODAY!!!
Imagine the panic when I sat down this morning to design a triangle die-cut cover for our in-house Jade Prints Portfolio book. I had the lengths of two sides of the right-angled triangle…hang on a second…this sounded familiar!
Where is Pythagoras when you need him?
This of course opened up a whole conversation about our other good friends: scalene, isosceles, and equilateral. In the end I have a mathematically exact template on which to build my spectacular cover. The satisfaction derived from using junior school geometry is way out of proportion but if the little things can’t brighten our days, what can??
It will certainly brighten our autumn day as well when the portfolio book arrives. We have just partnered up with a new top-end book maker (think lay flat, rigid pages, and spectacular cover materials!) All those details when the books arrive.
And here I thought I’d left all my math buddies behind. How obtuse of me! 🙂