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Bob Gotwals began today's MEC by taking the class outside for an interactive demonstration on the behavior of electrons. He explained how the electrons repulsed each other and how atoms have different energy levels, each with a certain number of electrons that it can hold. Valence electrons also came into the discussion, as did level jumping.
Next Maria took over, and the class went outside for another activity. This activity was to show the students how conversion rates and exchanges can be abused. The final part of the course was an in depth introduction to paradoxes. A paradox is a conditional or series of conditionals that contradicts itself. Paradoxes are divided into four categories: self-reference (recursive), circular reference, predicting the future, and non-member sets. The class worked through and discussed two worksheets on paradoxes, and they learned how to make their own.
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