I would like to lodge a formal complaint against the words “numerator” and “denominator.”
If we wanted people to hate fractions more, we could not have picked better words.
If we wanted people to hate fractions more, we could not have picked better words.
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Num and nom
Denominator = Down = Bottom
I don't know why this ridiculous "pneumonic" works for me, but it's the only way I remember it.
And technically, the English version is the same... just with some needless Latinization sprinkled in.
Tell me im wrong...
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They're either straight from Lord of the Rings or a WWF match.
"Denominator has him by the legs!"
Do you think Dividend and Divisor are better? I hate saying divivend
Reading A/B as "pick A from B" would have been great, but binomial coefficients took that from us and they also deserve it
I would like to say, that they make perfect sense to me. For elementary school students, not so much.
see this is exactly his point it's confusing
It's better than grammer!
Simple rly
True..... so many people learned this and remembered it differently
I don't think my child brain would go there though 😳
Ok, in certain contexts…
When you have 2 percent, 2 is the number-ator and 100 is de-name-inator
Or when you have a quarter, one is the numerator and 4 is the denominator
Hearing the "why" of something always anchors it in my brain.
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Dibs on “arch-numerator”
if we want to live in a world where Trump is president, then keep making it unnecessarily hard to educate people
s(t) distance
s'(t) velocity
s''(t) acceleration
s'''(t) jerk
See! Math CAN be fun!!
That's all you need to know & it's fine
分子 = fraction child = numerator
分母 = fraction mother = denominator
Also "The son is normally smaller because it hasn't lived up to its mother's expectations" number of points for you
Obligatory -inator
But I also hate math
Tho, for my purposes, "subtrahend" and "radicand" would be better, I suppose.
it still has many of these traits to this day.
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Look, my cats laughed.
So mainly we just say it in his voice, the words already sound like something he’d say.
As a Spanish speaker, both sound so natural. Sorry I also speak in meters, kilograms, m/s, etc.
- A Math Teacher
The thing I don't like is the precedent/antecedent distinction.
and it's no more intuitive which is which than numerator and denominator.
except as words they both classically get presented in top-then-bottom order.