Monthly Archives: April 2011

This unit was a good one during which to start my blog.  Puns galore. Today was the first time the students saw the “therefor(e)” symbol – three dots in a triangle, with the bottom two dots determining a line parallel … Continue reading →

Okay, so I’m making lots of connections in the classroom.  Not necessarily to the “real” world quite yet, but at least with current topic (radicals) to previous topics. How?  When I wrote the radical symbol, I had several questions – … Continue reading →

Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is. —Paul Erdös I know this is a … Continue reading →