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My Thoughts on Teaching Everyday Math
This semester I had the pleasure of teaching a fairly new course at my college called, “Everyday Math.” The class consists of several major units: Management Sciences (Graph Theory) The Science of Data (Statistics and Probability) Voting and Social Choice Fairness and Game Theory The Digital Revolution (Cryptography) Your Money and Resources (Interest) At the…
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Career Day at the Ballpark
On Thursday, May 17, I had the displeasure of being at Comerica Park for Career Day at the Ballpark. I can honestly say that if I would have known it was Career Day (shame on me for not checking), I would have exchanged my ticket for another game. When I got to the game, there…
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Summer Plans 2012
So, this is my annual post where I organize my thoughts on what I need to get done before the end of this summer. If I recall, last summer my plans fell into 5 categories. I will try to sort my thoughts for this summer in a similar manner. 1. Conferences: This summer the conferences…
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Guessing Ages Activity
This semester I tried a Guessing Ages Activity as a first day activity in my statistics classes. My version of the activity is adapted from page 11 of Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks. I found this activity to be a good ice breaker for the first day of class. The students really enjoyed working…
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1.653*Pi Day
Happy 1.653*Pi (5/19) Day! Yes, I know that Pi Day was way back on 3/14 and that 2*Pi Day is coming up on 6/28. But celebrating 1.653*Pi Day is a little more fun, don’t you think? Here are few resources that you may be able to use in your classroom: Pi Day Activity…
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Justin Verlander’s One Hitter
Warning: I don’t normally write about baseball. But you can’t deny that being at Justin Verlander’s One Hitter game is something special. I have to admit that I went into this game not expecting much from the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers should have been able to sweep the Twins and they didn’t. Villarreal shouldn’t have…
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