Tag: humor

  • High Fives: A #TMC15 my favorite

    At #TMC15 I shared my favorite of the “High 5”. Richard Villanueva is awesome enough to record them all and post, so I will just share the video of what I said. It is short and sweet: There is the video. I want to stress a few points. Giving high fives to my learners absolutely changed me.…

  • Central Limit Theorem Love

    Besides the usual quote on the board today, I also have this math pickup line: How can I know hundreds of digits of pi and not know your phone number?  I am featuring a new math love / pickup line each day this week (some days will have more than one). If you want the…

  • Doonesbury blew my mind yesterday

    I admit it, I read the funny pages first thing on Sunday morning. Okay, maybe I should first admit that I have a daily subscription to the newspaper and read it cover to cover every day. But, on Sundays, I read the comics first. Yesterday’s Doonesbury was an instant classic in my mind, worthy of…

  • The best blog you probably haven’t read

    “Tom Johnson” has a blog about the introduction of some nasty piece of technology into the schools in our country. It is horrible, disruptive technology that is changing the learning and teaching that is taking place in schools in a dramatic manner. This tech is that horrible and dreaded No. 2 pencil. Yikes!  Can you…