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Spinach
Dr. Crazy has a nice discussion over at her place about battles over curriculum. As she details it, her department...
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Lost and Found in the Classroom
Ellen Goldberger considers ideas of the labyrinth and the maze -- and experience with mediation -- as she thinks about reaching her students.
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Math Geek Mom: Risky Parenting
Today I taught about Bay’s Theorem and Bayesian Statistics in my Advanced Statistics class. As I was lecturing, I talked...
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Four, Going on Thirty
The Girl is four, with big innocent eyes and a smile that could melt the Grinch. She also has juuust...
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Balloons, bathtubs and (fill in the blank)
While we're on the subject of visual presentation of information, I just want to point out that part of the...
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An Essay in War, Literature
A longish essay I wrote last year has appeared in the twentieth-anniversary issue of the terrific literary journal War, Literature...
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The End Is Near
Carolyn F. Segal considers why so many pundits predict the demise of so many things.