| Teacher : | I went to see my folks over the weekend, and ah, I might have told you this before... |
| Teacher : | my parents live out in the middle of the sticks. |
| Teacher : | To get from here to there, there's no good way, it takes two hours, it's a big pain, |
| Teacher : | and that's why I don't go there very often. But they live, you know, |
| Teacher : | here we are, on the map, they live up here in Calhoun County. Has anybody here been to Calhoun County? |
| Teacher : | Probably not. |
| Student1: | I have. Me. What's near... |
| Teacher : | Harden. Jerseyville is near there. |
| Student1: | Oh, I've been to Jerseyville! |
| Teacher : | Anyway. So I'm driving there on saturday with my wife, |
| Teacher : | and I'm thinking about geometry a little bit. Not a lot, you know. |
| Teacher : | Heh. But I'm thinkingã I see some of those grain silos, |
| Teacher : | anybody who farm have those? |
| Teacher : | on your farm, like the blue, harvestor ones, or do you have the the short fat ones? |
| Student1: | I've seen the short, fat ones. |
| Teacher : | So, I'm sitting here thinking, what if I take ...where'd it go... |
| Teacher : | what if I take a piece of paper, and I was thinking to myself |
| Teacher : | if I were going to model what one of those silos look like, as far as... |
| Teacher : | Hopefully they don't do that, or you're going to have a mess, aren't you? |
| Teacher : | So I took this piece of paper, and I taped it up, and I was thinking to myself: |
| Teacher : | could I calculate the area that the piece of paper made, to form that cylinder? |
| Teacher : | Could I calculate that? Just the piece of paper's area? How would I do that? |
| Student1: | Take the um, height from the paper's height... |
| Teacher : | Of the paper before I did that, right? So what formula would I use to do that? |