Senior Talent Show - Finite Simple Group

first act of the night - it was definitely an icebreaker!! :D

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• JFKS
• Berlin
• Talent
• Show
• Acapella
• Finite
• Simple
• Group

[vaprsnake21]

This was performed at a high school talent show? LOL at the audience only laughing at the puns/jokes related to arithmetic operators and elementary properties of numbers/functions.

Not the best choice for a high school, no one will understand the song, as demonstrated from the audience response (every single line in the song is a pun in some way). To a high school student, all of mathematics is contained within a TI-89 calculator, or 83 (plus, if you like). Again, lawl.

[KiNeTiCLigHtEnInG]

the zoom made me jump out of my seat every time

it scareded me...

:s

[rlinfinity]

@vaprsnake21 Haha true. I mean you need to have done a fair amount of abstract algebra to start getting to the meat of the song.

[EmilianoDuque]

@inchen44

Don't take it bad, dude. He's right, most of the math jokes in that song are pretty advanced for high school students, those things are for college level. I seriously doubt that the girl on the very left can understad all of that... Except if she's from a high gifted secret school in North Corea or some shit like that hahahahahaha.

Any way, good for you if you like math!, keep it like that!

[EmilianoDuque]

@KiNeTiCLigHtEnInG

Holly crap!.. Yeah!.. I felt the same way hahahaha

[jMerliNz]

I highly doubt outside of it being "math" and some of it algebra that you had knowledge of most of the topics mentioned. Google doesn't count, either.

[blipster888]

Cool stuff. I'd be surprised if a high school girl knew more than I do if only because of age difference (I'm a little over a year into Michigan's math grad program), but I guess you never know.

Anyway, if you guys actually understood all that stuff when in high school, I'm impressed. I took a lot of math in HS, but I certainly didn't didn't know about differential forms ("drove a wedge between our 2-forms") or algebraic topology / the fundamental group ("simply connected").

[inchen44]

actually, it WAS our idea.. and we certainly knew what we were singing about. the girl on the very left could probably kick your ass at abstract algebra any day ;)

and yeah, bummer the audience didn't get more of the jokes, but we made sure there was at least one math teacher present who could appreciate the text =)

[erikzb]

Either they have no emotion to speak of, or they don't get the jokes.

[magicsparkleviolin]

..intonation is way out.

[rainspeaker1]

I dunno. I mean, it was cool, but I prefer the original. I don't think that their voices were very adapted to the musical style. And yeah, a lot of the puns fell way flat.

[blipster888]

Whose idea was it to sing this anyway? I'm guessing not the kids, on the basis that they almost certainly don't understand all the stuff they're singing. Must have been a weird experience all around - like singing in another language or something.