So. I woke up this morning inspired to add “appeal” to my animation. That would be, to make these numbers and stuff have character and appeal. Except, of course, I don’t have those drawing skills. An hour on google and … hey, if Veggie Tales can give character to vegetables, I can give emotions to… [Read more…]
April 16, 2012
… so, the presentation went well enough at both conference and class to inspire me to dash off a request for being included in our grant request… but too late. (I wasn’t anything like ready until the conference.) However, I’ve graduated from “don’t call us, we’ll call you” to “call us again, later.” My animation… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
http://www.livingmathbooklist.blogspot.com/ Mostly kidlet-oriented but this looks like fun. A Place for Zero, indeed
December 29, 2011
Hacking through cyberspace, I have been. I’ve found “math for grownups” (http://www.mathforgrownups.com ) and “the math mom” (http://www.themathmom.com), and “elevated math.” I’m afraid I deposited my apprehensions about the Magic of Flipped Classrooms on that blog, and once again got the feeling of that void between People Who KNow and Love Math and … the… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
Dry, sardonic comment from across table: “You don’t want to have to have the six talk.” Pause for the spontaneous giggles. “Six is evil, demonic, the devil’s spawn.” It’s the Big Factoring Practice Packet time… about 200 problems… and I was explaining that if the last number is six, you have to be very careful… [Read more…]
May 4, 2012
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