Caveat: I am probably the last person who should think about math education. Not only do I have little experience teaching the subject — help-session-tutor TA-ships in algebra and calculus in undergrad — but through most of my own schooling, math came easily to me. There’s a real sense in…
MATH TIME!!!! (Originally, I put that as filler in the draft of this blog just so I’d remember what the title was supposed to refer to. But then I decided it was a much better first line than anything else I could come up with.) So I’m sure everyone has…
Since I’m going to be out of the country and possibly without Internet for a couple weeks, I decided to post early. Here’s the follow-up to last week. I hope to get something posted next week sometime, but, if not, see you Sunday, June 28! For a lot of people,…
I try to post blogs only about works that make me feel something strongly, whether that something is outrage or admiration, melancholy or joy. Today, I’ve decided to go with “joy”. And that means… math!
Are you an earnest young actor? I ask only because so many of the actors my own age that I see onstage seem to be of the impression that eyes-wide, gulping-down-air, semi-innocence is the only way to go. I know Oscar Wilde was all about the importance of being earnest,…