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Category Archives: Creativity
Video Killed the Radio Star
It’s almost time to return to fall classes, such as they are. I feel very lucky to be where I am: my institution is not forcing us to teach in person if we do not want to. The students also … Continue reading
Posted in classroom design, classroom management, Creativity, online homework systems, teaching, technology, technology for teaching
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Recreational Mathematics for Fun, Sanity, and an Sometimes Even Papers
In life on the job market and pre-tenure academia, it can seem that no math is worth doing unless it results in a paper, preferably a very fashionable and serious one. This can be a real soul crusher when the … Continue reading
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Tagged puzzles, recreational mathematics, shuffling
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Learning to say no
Probably the biggest problem I’ve had in my “early career mathematician” life is that I do too many things. I wrote a bit already about my over-functioning issues in an older post. In part, this is how I have always … Continue reading