October 2010
8 posts
viva voce: On teenagers ... →
hermionedanger:
nanner:
A whole lot of my work (when I do direct services, which is a whole fucking lot) deals with teenagers. I’m an advocate for teenagers. Whenever we have a new grant or program in the queue, I always ask how we can get teenagers involved.
Why? Because no one gives…
TRUTH.
Man, I work a lot these days
Whenever someone asks me what’s new, I want to say something like, “I realized I could do induction on the degree of a polynomial over ALL fields at the same time, rather than just picking an arbitrary field and only working with polynomials over it, and BOY has that made my life easier.”
Because really, except for occasional climbing wall excursions or exercise classes (I love...
Inspired by Geddes, who was inspired by vivavoce...
Why I find the binomial coefficient so exciting
There’s a story I want to tell about calculus, but there’s some background storytelling I need to do to set it up. So here goes.
I have a favorite sequence of integers. Do you? You might like the fibonacci sequence, or the primes. I like the triangular numbers. The nth triangular number is the sum of the first n integers, so they go 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,… and I’ve preferred...
9 year old gems
I hang out with this nine year old and his friend kind of a lot. I want to have a twitter of the things he says—it would be like preschool gems.
Except deeply disturbing. This is a sweet lovable kid with sweet lovable friends. And they have picked up LOTS of messages about the world that make me sad. Or just confuse me, like the Hitler with a horse’s body incident of a few weeks...
Tutoring
I started out just to talk about how much fun it is to tutor, but it turned to thinking about a philosophical problem I have with the concept of teaching. It’s one of the more important questions for me, and I don’t at all know what to do about it. Overview: teaching is one of the most fun and most intellectually stimulating kinds of work, and people need and want good teachers. But...
Smith, finally →
I never posted about what I’m doing this year, and I should, because it’s math. Math! A post-baccalaureate program for women who are considering math grad school. It’s an amazing opportunity—tell your friends.
