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Woo hoo fastt math!

June 11, 2010

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So the college president dropped off Fastt Math at my office today.  Oy, I hate  patiently waiting for the tech people to come install it. Looked at the stuff and there’s a whole booklet in there that Kate Garnett has put together… okay, that sounds like I know her personally when really I’m just a […]

conceptua

June 4, 2010

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There’s a nice site called “conceptua math” — but in a fit of pique, I read the terms of use when I signed on and per what it says… I won’t like to it.  THat’s right, I agree *not* to link to the tools therein.   I suppose that it’s to keep me from making it […]

That snobbery thing

June 1, 2010

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If you care about spelling, you’re a “spelling snob…” It bothers me (and I’m resisting saying “I’m sorry” before that, because I’m not) that the all so cute page at http://www.teacherweb.com/NY/Arlington/AlgebraProject/hf2.aspx says that pi is approx. equal to 3.1415 . In math, the tradition is that you round the number to that last place and […]