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Musing Mathematically: A Tour

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

Musing Mathematically is a blog written by Nat Banting, a mathematics teacher, and mathematics education lecturer at the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.  His blog, which began back in 2011, is centered around the ideas … Continue reading →

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Hot Hands and Tuesday’s Children

Posted on November 10, 2015 by evelynjlamb

People, especially sports fans, seem to believe that players can get “hot,” that they will hit more baskets (or succeed in whatever metric is of interest in their sport) more after a series of hits than after a series of … Continue reading →

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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

Posted on January 27, 2014 by evelynjlamb

Last semester, my university put on a production of Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead that got me thinking about the likelihood of flipping a lot of heads in a row. I wrote about it on my other … Continue reading →

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