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Feel free to smack him for me
It actually took me a second to get it – how annoying that a web comic would actually be subtle enough to challenge a little :-). Tags: bias, discrimination, Education, feminism, Mathematics, Science Related posts We invest in research, but what about teaching? (2) We have to help them understand: Science matters! (1)
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Nerds on parade
A wonderfully nerdly performance of mental arithmetic. I found his use of word mnemonics to remember large numbers quite cool. Tags: Mathematics, performance, TED, Video Related posts What can dance tell us about intellectual property? A lot, it turns out (2) Transforming our thoughts about teaching (2)
Transforming our thoughts about teaching
This wonderful little video (produced by some U of M Twin Cities mathematicians) has apparently been viewed over 1 million times now, which is a lot more views than it would ever get in class. I frequently run into faculty that are very intent on holding on to their teaching ideas and techniques, and certainly [...]
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High school math = Teh Good
Pharyngula has a nice discussion of report looking at the impact of high school math and science classes on performance in university science courses. The short version? Definitely take math, as that improves performance in all the sciences in the study (biology, chemistry, and physics). Taking science in high school tends to help performance in [...]
But what about “Moon Unit”?
WeatherGirl tipped me to an Observer article entitled “Names really do make a difference“, and I keep wavering between “Oh, surely not!” and “Well, duh, that was pretty obvious”. Apparently giving a girl a “girlie” name significantly reduces her likelihood of studying math and science: Both subjects [math and physics], which are traditionally seen as [...]
LaTeX for WordPress!
I just discovered via Abstract Nonsense that there’s now built-in support for LaTeX in WordPress! Now that’s way cool… No tag for this post. Related posts No related posts.
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Memes-ville: Five things you don’t know about me
This is arguably a poorly formed concept since its meaning can vary wildly depending on the referent of “you” but, hey, if Mr. Tozier is silly enough to tag me I’ll play along :-). I’ll start with something really random and meaningless: I have short pinkie fingers Actually, the fingers themselves are proportional to my [...]
There’s a Carnival of Mathematics!
math Originally uploaded by Akash k. I just stumbled across the fact that there’s a new Carnival of Mathematics, with their first edition up a bit over a week ago. The next edition is due to be posted on the 23rd on Good Math, Bad Math. Thanks to The Science Pundit for the pointer. As [...]
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Do we need to be requiring more math/science in high school?
As I mentioned before, I took part in a panel discussion on women in science and math last week. One of the issues that came up in the discussion was the importance of requiring math and science courses, at least through high school, and perhaps into college. The argument was that as long as technical [...]
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