A Math Teacher’s Guide to Explaining Technology to Your Parents

And so was born that tragicomedy of 21st-century life: young people trying to explain technology to their parents.

Statisticomics

Sometimes I worry I listen too closely to the polls. Do we have any polling data on that?

Ring the bells, beat the drums, and summon the presidential candidates to “weigh in,” because your clocks will never be the same.

Adults recall math as a sort of NCAA tournament. Everybody gets eliminated. It's only a question of how long you stay in the game.

It seems obvious. You’d be crazy to leave the guaranteed $1000 behind, right?

Our teacher's gone utterly crazy, and no one can fathom her wrath. She wants us to do the impossible...

In college, I was one of those compulsive read-everything kids, except in one subject: my major.

When it comes to area, everything is rectangles.

with sincere apologies to Wallace Stevens

So if "applied" means "useful," doesn't it follow that "pure" must mean... "useless"?