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Month: July 2017

Poetry

sometimes

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

sometimes i feel like tearing my chest wiiiiiide open because that way you could see my soul gasping in the great expanse sometimes i feel like staring into the...

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Keeping an Eye out for Ableism

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I have a prosthetic eye. I have had it since I was about a year old, before I could speak. I don’t know what life would be like without it. More importantly, I ...

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Number values and multiple representations

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

One of the questions my mind keeps returning to is: What is a number? I don’t mean this in a high-level set theory way. I’m not talking about aleph-...

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Speaking English vs Speaking Math

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

One of the challenges that I see with students learning mathematics is their confusion with what qualifies as the content of mathematics and the language of mat...

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Enough is Enough: The Hoarding of the Ultrarich

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Many years ago, I saw a documentary on a tribe somewhere in the third world. This tribe’s diet relied heavily on taro roots, a vegetable similar to a potato. Af...

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Fat Jokes about People We Dislike are Still Fat Jokes

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Last weekend, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had a Marie Antoinette moment: Having closed the state’s beaches to the general population, he and his family r...

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Three and a half methods for finding square roots

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

The easiest way to find a square root in this technological age is to use a calculator. That’s a fine method if what you want to do is simply calculate a ...

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Why We’re all Fragile Snowflakes

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I’m a fragile snowflake. So are you. I don’t mean this ironically, and I don’t mean it in the same sense as “We’re all racist.” I mean that, in the eyes of some...

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De Gua and the Pythagoreans

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

The Pythagorean Theorem states that, given a right triangle, the areas of squares placed along the two legs will have the same area as a square placed on the hy...

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