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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

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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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Time Saver: Automated Course Journals

I’ve always had a terrible time keeping track of how well my classes run from one semester to the next. I always mean to make note of a typo on a handout, or an activity that needed tweaking, or a … Continue reading

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