Continuous Reflection

"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries." - Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Trigonometric storytelling, Part 1

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…


Radian Resources

On her blog, My Web 2.0 Journey, Kristen Fouss links to a collection of documents that can be used in a class studying trigonometric functions. I’m interested in trying the radian cut-ups and Marsha Hurwitz’s sine cosine game (which in it’s current form needs degree Read more…

Radian cut-ups