…are what’s keeping me away. Don’t worry, I’m still here and planning to post a lot more often than I have the last few months. However, between starting grad school (which is going swimmingly so far!) and not having internet access, my ability to post, look at comments, etc., is sadly limited. I won’t have [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Grad school and lack of internet…
Posted in Personal on August 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Musings on Math Education, part 1a
Posted in Math, Musings, Personal, Teaching on August 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my last post, I told the story of how my parents taught me about logarithms on a pizza box. I’ve been thinking about that more in the last couple days, and I realized I had a few things to add.
Musings on Math Education, part 1: Logarithms on a Pizza Box
Posted in Math, Musings, Personal, Teaching on August 20, 2008 | 19 Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about teaching math lately, as I prepare for my entrance into grad school. I’ve tutored a lot of calculus and a little bit of lower-level math, and in a year I’ll be teaching classes of my own. I’ve worked with a number of students, and had a few friends, who [...]
Is Infinite Regress a Problem?
Posted in Atheism on August 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
On the most recent episode of The Atheist Experience Podcast, which I was listening to earlier, one caller asked about the hosts’ feelings on infinite regress. It was a pretty open ended question, but it’s a subject that comes up in a variety of different contexts when we’re arguing about religion. I’ve been thinking about [...]
