Three things struck me when I looked at this:
Archive for September, 2008
Awesome
Posted in Math on September 29, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Musings on Math Education, part 2: “Math is not about being creative!”
Posted in Math, Musings, Personal, Teaching on September 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Part 1 was one of my best experiences with learning math; this is one of my worst.
Senior year of high school my best friend and I had our last classes of the day in the same part of campus, so at the end of the day we would meet up before heading home. Her last class [...]
This post made my day.
Posted in Computer Science, Knitting/Crocheting on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over at Learning Curves, the best thing I’ve seen all week: using knitting as an example in computer science class.
Some people might think that I was knitting a sock.
However, I was really working with an abstracted version of a data structure. Each stitch points to the next stitch, and the working yarn points to the [...]
Aack! How did a month go by already?
Posted in Musings, Personal, Teaching, Topology on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yikes, I’ve been in grad school for four weeks! It’s going quite well, although I have to say two of my three classes are rather easier than I’d like. My Intro to Analysis course is actually far less rigorous than the real analysis course I took at Union (to be fair, I had the best [...]
