Monthly Archives: November 2016

Join My GA Math Book Club

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Beth Malmskog

Reading is a vice for me—I can lose hours, nights of sleep, whole weekends in novels. Often I read non-fiction to keep from getting so  sucked in, and mostly that means general audience (GA) math. Everyone who has read many … Continue reading →

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No Electioneering Beyond This Point: Teaching stats in an election year

Posted on November 30, 2016 by smalec

  This certainly was an interesting semester to teach intro statistics. My students analyzed poll data, linked to in detail on realclearpolitics, to see if jumps were statistically significant, explored the correlation between the way different states vote, and analyzed … Continue reading →

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Saying Something

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Beth Malmskog

I said nothing to my students this week about the election outcome. I just had no idea what to say. I was (and am) a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton. I know that many of my students and colleagues were … Continue reading →

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