[Rescued from my old blog.]
I’ve been procrastinating my preparations for co-op classes this week, but I think I’m ready. I almost forgot the scissors, but now I have them in my bag, so we will be able to cut the “infinite pizza” pieces. And I have two fun quotes for the blackboard:
[Rescued from my old blog.]
I thought you might enjoy the quote I’m going to use on the blackboard in math class:
The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
—William F. Osgood, quoted in
Out of the Mouths of Mathematicians
by Rosemary Schmalz
Continue reading Math Quotes II: The Ultimate Goal of Mathematics
[Rescued from my old blog.]
My computer and I seem to have come to a temporary truce: I pretend I’m never going to shut it off again, and it pretends it’s always going to come back if I do have to reboot. (Nope, no new computer in the offing at this point. We’re just at a cease fire here, until the next big thunderstorm throws a power outage at us…) So I thought it was high time for me to get back into the habit of blog posting.
Continue reading I’m Ba-a-a-ack! (Math Quotes of the Week I)
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