We farewelled some of our students yesterday—students who are finishing their four-year Bachelor of Education program and who are about to embark on careers as primary school teachers. I was asked to say a few words at their farewell function, and although I wanted perhaps a little sentimentality, being me I also wanted to do something […]
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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 |
I’m not entirely sure to what extent or for how long I’ve aspired to reach the lofty goals of the title of this post, but I can say that the first part was achieved quickly and easily: I have been vague for longer than I can remember. The second part has just been attained as well, so […] Apparently Benoît Mandelbrot passed away last week. He is famous for introducing the world to the idea of “fractals” — shapes that are so crinkly that their boundaries are not lovely smooth lines or planes, so that their dimensions are not whole numbers — and the “Mandelbrot set” — that famous heart-shaped blobby thing with circular […] We had a Scout camp scheduled for this weekend, and despite the fact that it had become very chilly and that every time I looked outside the rain was bucketing down (the rain radar was even worse than the image shown at right) I was still intending that we would go. We were packed, the food […] What to do? What to do? What to do? This month’s 12 of 12 landed on a work day again, and I wasn’t expecting much in the way of “excitement, adventure, really wild things, and awesome photo opportunities*”. As a result, I decided to pick a theme for the day and work with that. The theme I chose […] Ten years ago, not long after satellite signals for navigation became publicly available, a guy named George hid the first cache in Victoria. Another person to blame! At 60km from Melbourne, the name “Melbourne’s 1st” is a bit of a misnomer, but he picked a good spot in the hills above Strath Creek, and the cache has survived […] With my students off on their mid-semester break I felt that I deserved a day off to go caching, since it’s been over a month since my last plastic box (“My name is SamCarter and I am addicted to caching”). My caching friend Muzza was able to swap his day off and so we headed up […] |
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