This math is… different…
Sometimes the math looks different from what most of us remember, and if you’ve sat down to help with homework lately, you know exactly what I mean. You come to the table ready to be useful, and the page is…
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To Know Me is to Know My Starbucks Order
Do I truly love my venti cold brew with oat milk? Is it force of habit? Could I even handle a morning without it? All questions I often ask myself. Another question that came to mind recently was what is…
Early Numeracy at Work
Early Numeracy at work! The math just shows up, when you look for it, in small moments. My nephew gets major credit for being the only one of the cousins willing to help me set the table for pizza night…
June 21st: Solstice Geometry and Uncle Woody
Today is the summer solstice. I am in Gloucester, Massachusetts, north of Boston, the part of the world from which my family harkens. We had a lovely dinner tonight overlooking Ipswich Bay, where the sunset is spectacular. It is one…
Smoots, Kleins, and … your ‘you’-nit!
I came across this most charming article the other day, about a funny new unit of measurement called the “smoot” and named after Oliver R. Smoot Jr. who was in MIT’s class of 1962 who in 1958 lay his body…