Slope Dude

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Daquan has a passion for skiing. He also dearly loves to teach math, particularly the characteristics of lines. That's how he earned his street name, Slope Dude.

Every day, Daquan went skiing in a different place. Some days, he took his skis to the desert dunes of Egypt. Other days he went to the canopy of a tropical rainforest. He rarely went skiing in actual snow since he was bothered by its fluffiness.

One day, Daquan decided to go skiing on a regular old line. He marveled at the beautiful scenery of graph squares as he got his skiing gear ready, and then he started to ski.

Daquan had a lot of trouble pushing himself up the hill. Lines were different than the regular terrain he was used to. His math instincts kicked in and he noted that it was a positive slope.

"Puff puff positive," he puffed. Daquan continued to puff until he reached the peak of the hill. He started to slide down the line.

That's when Daquan started to speed up. As he picked up speed, he realized that the slope if this section of the line was negative. As he sped down the slope, Daquan shouted "Nice, negative!"

Suddenly, the ground beneath him flattened out until there was no hill left to ski down. Daquan had to push himself across the flat line, which had a slope of zero.

"This is zero fun," he grumbled as he approached another slope to ski down.

But what Slope Dude didn't realize was that the hill he was moving towards wasn't a hill at all. It was actually a vertical cliff, which meant he would fall to his death.

As Daquan fell over the edge of the cliff, he panicked and screamed out the worst curse word in all of math and da hood:

"Undefined!"

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