Invasion of the Prime Numbers by Norm Milstein (aka Number Line Nomad)

[flowertrue]

When I was in school we never had teachers bring guitars and sing songs! Substitues just kind of sat there and waited out the clock

[lexinaut]

@flowertrue Thanks for the thoughtful comment. Life is too short to wait out the clock. I feel fortunate that I am not burned out regarding helping students. I hope we can dream better dreams in the infinite classroom of life. Balloon bears sometimes can help. They are definitely light on their feet.

[lexinaut]

That's true! I couldn't bring the balloon bears to work today (they were in Bear Valley over in Point Reyes), but I did sing Invasion of the Prime Numbers.

[fr12ish]

we had you as a sub today in english

[lexinaut]

Well, actually the bear was NOT harmed. The bear that fell is an accomplished stunt bear. It was definitely ready for . . . Prime Time!

[blansetalex]

the bear WAS harmed

[betweenthelyons]

He Was My Substitute

[knabend]

@empaws do you go to white hill, because he sang that in class today!

[betweenthelyons]

@knabend Same w/ me

[empaws]

THAT IS MY SUB. TEACHER!!!!!!!!! HE SANG IT TO US IN PREALGEBRA

[csricket]

this helped me pass my test! thanks!!!

[lexinaut]

@csricket That's great! I'm very happy the video helped. That's what we made if for.

May the Math be with You! --Number Line Nomad

[megasuperblast]

@lexinaut norm you are so nice smart and funny...and have a great voice! you were always the only substitute at our school that EVERYBODY wanted. thank you for all of your help!

[lexinaut]

@megasuperblast You are certainly welcome! Thanks so much for your kind words. They mean a great deal to me. Have a great summer!

[AAAAAAAAAA42]

The teddy bear has fallen due to your poor maintenance. THIS NOBLE CREATURE HAS DIED.

[lexinaut]

@AAAAAAAAAA42 Fear Not! We used a highly trained Stunt Bear.

[AAAAAAAAAA42]

@lexinaut Great! However, there is still the horror of the army of prime numbers invading towns across America! What will be done about these thugs known as 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 3137, 41, 43 and 53? Can the bear defeat them?

[lexinaut]

@AAAAAAAAAA42 Alas! WOE UNTO US! We cannot defeat this remorseless army of primes nor can our heroic allies, the bears. Large rewards are offered for subduing mega- primes, but even these monsters are microscopic compared to primes that follow them unto eternity. The primes, unlike the bears, ARE BOTH unPOPPABLE AND unSTOPPABLE! Our best hope is to surrender and beg pathetically for mercy!

[AAAAAAAAAA42]

@lexinaut I don't think these primes have any mercy! Howerver, as long as they do not use their incredinly powerful weapon only known as the "Sieve of Eratosthenes" then perhaps the much larger army on non-primes could defeat this menace!

[lexinaut]

@AAAAAAAAAA42 The sieve! Don't even say that! It is a terrible threat to numerical Sieve-ilization! It removes everything BUT primes! If they bring that out, we are definitely DOOMED! However, the composites are MADE UP of primes, so attacking the primes with composites would, sadly, be a lethally self-destructive approach. Perhaps the irrationals or complex numbers can save us. However, they definitely come with their own unending set of problems.

[AAAAAAAAAA42]

@lexinaut I know! Perhaps, with our imaginations, we could dream up an un-ending armada of imaginary numbers! An unstoppable force of pure combat, which will be used to crush this unfathomable army of numerical power! Imaginary numbers are why Lewis Carroll wrote Alice In Wonderland! Imaginary numbers will now birth another wonderland, rid of these invading primes!

[lexinaut]

@AAAAAAAAAA42 If we can join forces from various number sets, our situation may be less pathetic. The hugely powerful Euler Identity might help in this dire battle with the primes. e, pi, i, and the number 1 all team up in this friskapeppy equation with the power series, sines and cosines, and factorials used to prove the darn thing! If we can't destroy the primes, we may be able to battle them to a weird infinite draw. I wish I could email Lewis Carroll to get his take on this.

[AAAAAAAAAA42]

@lexinaut Dare we invoke.....HIS wrath?

I speak, of course, of the one and only Stephen Hawking.

[lexinaut]

@AAAAAAAAAA42  Well, the Hawking matter may have to wait. I do think you might enjoy the following News Flash: The Largest Prime Number has escaped. Authorities briefly had it in custody, but it shattered the jailhouse to smithereens and stalked off into the night. If you see this Mathematical Monster, you are hallucinating! Get help immediately!

[AAAAAAAAAA42]

@lexinaut I saw the largest prime number, and I haven't been quite right since then. Some people call it "crazy" or "insane" but I like to call it "pretty fun since I saw the number the number the number." The sheer size of the largest prime number was...well, infinite.

[lexinaut]

@AAAAAAAAAA42 Infinity, that geometric and numerical mystery! I once dreamed that the Euclidean plane spoke to me. The results are below:

The Plane

I am an infinite membrane, flatter than you can know.

I am thinnest, a mindwisp, metaphysical wallpaper.

If you were me, drunk with power, you'd laugh,

For I have cut infinity in half!

I actually use this in classrooms at times, asking the kids to close their eyes and really think about the strange awesomeness of the ideas involved.

[katydidmail]

Love it! Fun for kids and adults.....

[Mlikwepower]

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