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Month: June 2017

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Write This Down Now

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I am able to communicate with you right now because of one of the oldest and greatest inventions of humanity: Writing. Prior to writing, humans had to keep thei...

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Pascal, Pacioli, Probability, and Problem-Based Learning

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I’m currently reading Howard Eves’s Great Moments in Mathematics After 1650 (1983, Mathematical Association of America), a chronological collection ...

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The Fourth Dimension (Thoughts)

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I’ve had two recent thoughts about the fourth dimension. The first relates to Euler’s Formula, which says that the difference between the sum of the...

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Moment

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I used to go by a different name. It’s been so long that I’d nearly forgotten. The other day, I was out somewhere when someone said the name. I turn...

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Being a Son, Being a Father

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

As I write this, it’s Father’s Day. I wish a Happy Father’s Day to every decent person who identifies as a father figure in somebody’s life, be it as a parent, ...

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Geometry for multiplication, division, and roots

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Contemporary plane geometry of the sort taught in the standard American high school is most heavily informed by two books and a third mathematician. The first o...

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Factoring and long division

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

This morning, I’ve been watching YouTube videos. I started with Tarleen Kaur’s video on Middle Term Splitting. What I find interesting about Kaur...

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Positive numbers and absolute value

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 3 Comments

They say that when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Since I’m currently thinking about conceptual vs procedural teaching, I’m no...

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The smallest angle

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I have been thinking about procedural vs conceptual thinking, which Skemp’s seminal article refers to as relational vs instructional. One of the questions...

Good Men Project

Bill Maher: Typical White Male Liberal

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

On Friday’s episode of Real Time, Bill Maher provided a clinic on some of the worst white male verbal behaviors, and in how not to take full responsibility. In ...

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