2010-05-28

The Nuclear Option

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For me, this will mark my final entry for the year. Many things have changed in my classes during the last few weeks. Molly had to leave for...
2010-05-10

The Full Monty

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Last Friday I gave a presentation that I had been rather excited about. After seeing kids shoot dice incessantly, I decided that I'd do ...
2010-05-03

Lillian's Lines

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On the suggestion of Max over at the MathForum, I recently did a Problem of the Week called Lillian's Lines (#5180). In our discussions,...
2010-03-11

Causality

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As mentioned in the prior post, some of the students' behavior is disrespectful, absurd, destructive and a whole list of other things I...
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Passer Rating

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Yesterday I finished grading the worksheets I had handed out to accompany my talk. Even being very generous with the points, I believe the a...
2010-03-08

Stemming the Tide

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While not entirely relevant to high school learning, there was recently a House panel on STEM education at the college level. The participan...
2010-03-05

Collisions

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As a much delayed followup to my presentation on sound , today I gave a presentation on how math fits in to football. I worked on the pres...
2010-03-01

Physical Links

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I'm finishing up my presentation on physics in football and have come across a few interesting links that I thought might be nice to sha...
2010-02-24

The Longest Journey

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Sorry for the lack of updates in recent weeks. Thursdays and Fridays have been very popular for teacher development days, wisdom teeth extr...
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2010-01-21

When in the course of human events...

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it becomes necessary to tell a student "Alex!* Get your hands out of your pants," you begin to wonder if self-discipline is som...