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Thales’ triangles: Name change and originality
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Wednesday, July 05, 2006. Name change and originality. I originally launched this blog as “My Thirtieth Year.” Because, y’know, that's when I started writing it, and as I mentioned in my first essay. So I went looking for a more “individual” name for my blog, one that wouldn’t end up leading people to someone else’s musings. 8212; from the opening line. 8212; a kind o...
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Thales’ triangles: geometry at the fair
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Saturday, October 11, 2014. Geometry at the fair. Last month, West Springfield once again hosted the Eastern States Exposition (or “The Big E”. Each square contains a star-shaped figure. The star itself has fourfold dihedral symmetry. This quilt also shows fourfold dihedral symmetry in the shapes, which is broken into cyclic symmetry by the colors. It hints at eig...
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Thales’ triangles: big mistake or little mistake?
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Big mistake or little mistake? One of my friends shared this picture on Facebook—. Which came via mathtricks.org. The teacher is doing something rather sophisticated—solving a more general problem—which is what makes it easy to trip up on the apparent simplicity of this question. Consider the following similar questions:. In the case of th...
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Thales’ triangles: thinking about thinking about thinking
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Friday, January 04, 2013. Thinking about thinking about thinking. This spring, I want to make the metacognitive aspect more explicit in my classes. I will be teaching a multivariable calculus class and an “advanced calculus” class (which will be focused on the geometry, topology, and calculus of manifolds in Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension)....In place of tradi...
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Thales’ triangles: whiteboard comparison: Educreations vs. Doceri
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Thursday, August 30, 2012. Whiteboard comparison: Educreations vs. Doceri. Which is to say, if you’re reading this in 2015 or later, you shouldn’t accept my take as definitive, but try these apps (or their other competitors) for yourself and decide what features you like. Produced by Educreations, Inc., and Doceri. Produced by SP Controls, Inc. In short, both are very...
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Thales’ triangles: standards for analysis
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Monday, August 18, 2014. Writing standards for a proof-based class is a different beast than for introductory calculus. In my last post. While considering these questions, I determined that there are six standards. I want students to actively develop during the semester, and on which I want to be giving targeted feedback. These skills will be grounded in the conte...
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Thales’ triangles: probability skills
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Teaching and doing mathematics in a liberal arts context. Exploring the meaning of life. Occasionally posting chronicles and observations. Tuesday, September 03, 2013. Tomorrow I start teaching my first probability class. At 8:30 am. So that’s a thing. (I’ve done 8:30 classes before, and they’re fine. In fact, I suspect upper-class students will be more amenable to them than the first-years I’ve taught in the past.). We can understand the long-term behavior of random processes. Although it took me a whil...
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