Lover of math. Bad at drawing.
It’s beyond me why I memorized the quadratic formula as an 8th grader, but didn’t hear the tale of Galois until college. If you ask me, the latter might just enrich the mind more than the former. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that math isn’t romantic.
Suppose you’ve got a pizza. A nice charcoal-cooked one from New Haven, or an oven-hot Chicago deep-dish, or even one of those organic San Francisco artisan pies that somehow make artichoke hearts seem like they belong on a pizza. And, generous soul that you are, you’ve decided to share.
An Open Letter to Students Wondering, "Why Do We Use Radians Instead of Degrees?" Dear Student, Let me start with a question of my own. Did you know that you speak Babylonian? You may not think that you do – you can’t ask for directions to a Babylonian bathroom, or order lunch off of a … Continue reading Degrees vs. Radians
Dear Students Who Think Graphing is Stupid, Right on! Graphs are stupid. Cosmically stupid. Deliberately stupid. In fact - and I hate to pull this rhetorical trick on you, but you leave me with no choice - that's kind of the point. A graph is not an end product. It’s more like a map – a simplified … Continue reading Stupid Graphs!
Math with Bad Drawings 