"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries." - Carl Friedrich Gauss
August 4, 2013
We’ve just had a good week-plus of precalculus lessons built around a story, inspired by Daniel Willingham’s tweet and the article by Julie DeNeen about which he tweeted. [embedit snippet=”willingham-tweet”] The tweet came at an opportune time. It was Thanksgiving break, I was away from Read more…
We’ve just had a good week-plus of precalculus lessons built around a story, inspired by Daniel Willingham’s tweet and the article by Julie DeNeen about which he tweeted. [embedit snippet=”willingham-tweet”] The tweet came at an opportune time. It was Thanksgiving break, I was away from Read more…
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