It happened again. I was focused so tightly on a project that I did not notice the passage of time or hear the chimes on my phone. It meant that I missed an opportunity to spend time with a good friend. I promise it wasn’t intentional. On a positive note, I think I’ ready forContinue reading “March 2 Day 359: Tunnel Vision”
Category Archives: mathematics
March 1 Day 358: Jumping In With Abandon
Twice now, I have been in a webinar/online conference where a presenter used Desmos Teacher to engage the students online. It is similar to Poll Everywhere in that by sharing a link, the audience can follow the presentation and interact using multiple choice, text boxes, free form drawing, or integrated Desmos explorations. It’s really slick.Continue reading “March 1 Day 358: Jumping In With Abandon”
February 27 Day 356: Golden Section Confession
Did you know that the members of the MAA living in Northern California, Northern Nevada, Hawaii, and Pacific US Islands refer to their local region as the “Golden Section”? (Double entendre fully intended. ) They have a spiral in their logo that is made of golden rectangles (in blue below) containing a classic golden spiralContinue reading “February 27 Day 356: Golden Section Confession”
February 25 Day 354: Crowdsourcing Topics for Short Math Videos
The #TacomaMath work group of the STEAM Learning Network is working to positively change the mathematical culture in my city of Tacoma. We’ve employed various strategies throughout the pandemic, see July 25 Day 139: #TacomaMath. Starting this month, our workgroup has been creating Math Around Town recordings—one per week—suitable for school age children. No longer thanContinue reading “February 25 Day 354: Crowdsourcing Topics for Short Math Videos”
February 22 Day 351: In Focus
MAA Focus is the newsmagazine of the Mathematical Association of America, edited by Jaqueline Jensen-Vallin. First, I want to thank Jackie for the tremendous job that she does putting the magazine together with support from managing editor and art director, Bev Ruedi, and the MAA Focus editorial board. The February-March Issue dropped today and IContinue reading “February 22 Day 351: In Focus”
February 20 Day 349: Florida Celebration
I want to give a shout out to all of the executive officers in the MAA Florida section meeting. They were the test subjects for all the virtual spring MAA section meetings to come. The background. The pandemic has stressed everyone. Several members of the FL MAA executive committee resigned this year because they didContinue reading “February 20 Day 349: Florida Celebration”
February 19 Day 348: Tech Lessons
Despite best intentions, it is critical to test everything…twice. Learning technology limitations the hard way is never fun. It’s like the first time you learn that a shared Google document can only accommodate 100 users. Or that a screen shared from an iPad user does not allow for zoom annotation by others but an iPadContinue reading “February 19 Day 348: Tech Lessons”
February 18 Day 347: Transcription Translation
On February 16 Day 345: Transcription Errors 2.0, I posted the following automatic Zoom transcription and asked if anyone could decode it: Durham sandpoint suddenly G one g to be groups and suppose that you want his own workplace. Do you energy to his homework, so if Jesus element of view and such as Jesus finite.Continue reading “February 18 Day 347: Transcription Translation”
February 17 Day 346: The Season of Spring Meetings
The coming weekend marks the first of many MAA Section Meetings to be held this “Spring”. Both the Florida Section (February 19-20) and the Golden Section (representing Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Hawaii, February 26-27) are typically held early in the meeting season. I think, so they can boast about their beautiful and temperate weather.Continue reading “February 17 Day 346: The Season of Spring Meetings”
February 16 Day 345: Transcription Errors 2.0
Automatic transcriptions of Zoom recordings can occasionally miss the mark. I’m just going to leave this here and see if anyone one can figure out the statement of the Theorem that Zoom transcribed as follows: Durham sandpoint suddenly G one g to be groups and suppose that you want his own workplace. Do you energyContinue reading “February 16 Day 345: Transcription Errors 2.0”
Math Belongs to All of Us 