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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
70. 67% 67% it says, 2, 3 […] I have just seen something about “Integrating Differentiated Instruction”. Given the inverse relationship between integration and differentiation, surely “Integrating Differentiated Instruction” is just “Instruction + c”? (This is one of those puns for which the size of an appreciative audience is likely to be rather small*. It may even be less than 2.) * It lies within the […] I have just spent a day attending a conference on sustainability in education. This is not an issue for us mathsy folk as there is an infinite supply of numbers. And we can […] This year I have done the “Barbie Bungee” activity with my pre-service secondary maths teachers. In the confines of the classroom the students gather data about the length of a Barbie doll’s fall for each of a variety of different bungee lengths (with this length given in terms of the “number of rubber bands” making up the […] Q. Why do zombies love calculating slope in maths class? A. It involves […] Today was a Saturday, normally a day to seek excitement, adventure and really wild things*. So I did. I was in Launceston for day 2 of the annual conference of the Mathematical Association of Tasmania, where I presented a session for teachers on “Fermi problems” and getting students to engage and work with large numbers and mathematical modelling.** […] I have marked my territory. I had a grumpy day on Monday (it started with the fact that I was obliged to go to work on a public holiday and went downhill from there) and in the afternoon I decided to give up doing serious work and spend some time building a tesseract to hang outside the […] Some of you may be familiar with the so-called “Platonic solids”, which are the five “regular” solids in three-dimensions. “Regular” means that they are made up of flat shapes that are “regular” in the sense of having sides of equal length and angles that are all equal, and then these flat shapes are stuck together to […] Okay, it was a clever solution — or so I thought — but I forgot a key condition. My “The barber was a woman” was, as some* of you realised, my novel solution to the famous problem of “Who shaves the barber if the barber shaves all those, and only those, who don’t shave themselves?”. In fact, this […] The barber was […] |
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