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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Join My GA Math Book Club
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
No Electioneering Beyond This Point: Teaching stats in an election year
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
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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Tagged social justice and mathematics, Talking about election
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