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See you at #MichMATYC13
As part of MichMATYC’s Fall 2013 Conference coming up on Friday, October 4 – Saturday, October 5, I was asked to create gift basket to be used as a raffle prize during the conference. I gladly agreed to help out by making a donation! A picture of the basket and a description of what’s all…
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What I Learned at #BloggyCon13
This weekend I attended my first blogging conference ever: Bloggy Conference 2013. My intent for attending was as follows: I wanted to get tips for becoming a better blogger myself. I am considering having my students write blogs themselves (similar to this idea), as I truly believe that if my students write about what they…
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Resources for Teaching Integers
I was recently contacted about whether or not I had any resources for teaching about Integers. Of course, my answer was a resounding, “yes!” But I was actually a little embarrassed when I had to admit to the person that I had never taken the time to organize them all into one easy-to-find place on…
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The Mathematics of Weight Loss
The picture below was taken in college when I was around my heaviest weight ever of 314 lbs. I’ve always been a big person and I there is a lot that goes into why this is the case as well. Was it the way I was raised? Was it genetics? Was it just me eating…
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Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test Using TI-84+
There was some recent confusion about a problem in MyMathLab. http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/b6e4b7ce-ad65-424f-adae-163680259876/jingswfplayer.swf
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Golden Ratio Calculations using TI-34Multiview
Even with a nice calculator like the TI-34Multiview, some expressions can still be tricky to enter into the calculator. http://content.screencast.com/users/Mallwalker52/folders/Jing/media/b17851b3-4550-497d-a4b7-808f14946576/jingswfplayer.swf
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