As guiding principles go, “carpe diem” seems to have all the intellectual heft of a Dos Equis commercial.
Category: Reflections
The Voldemort of Calculus Classes
16B is merely Franken-calculus, stitched together from the corpses of actual classes.
Wealth, Acclaim, and Fancy Catered Lunches (or, Why I’m a Teacher)
Are my reasons romantic or pedestrian?
Ray Bradbury is My Anti-Vonnegut.
Vonnegut growls. I want somebody who sings.
When Not Memorizing Gets in the Way of Learning
Monday, we memorize. That way, we’ll know. Tuesday through Friday, we think and we grow.
Mailbag: STEM Stereotypes, Intellectual Inadequacy, and the Crocodile Tears of the Math Student
If you’re worried that labeling yourself as a math major conjures up a specific, inflexible image in people’s minds, then the best thing you can do is gently push back against their stereotypes.
I think the SAT’s scoring system is gibberish.
If even hyper-selective schools like Yale don’t care about small differences in SAT scores, why should anyone?
Star Trek with Bad Drawings (by me, age 6)
I found these drawings in the basement of my childhood home. I was 6, already a Star Trek fan and a terrible drawer.
Does hating math make you bad at it?
Even in math class, excellence is a journey, and natural ability is only a starting point.
Math is always hard… until it isn’t.
"I like counting to ten. But the teens are just too hard, and I can't imagine they have any real-world significance." -Preschoolers
Math with Bad Drawings 