This is Why I Love Graphs!

This graph appeared on one of my favorite websites – Statista. Given the “breaking news” of the day, that the President wants to impose new tariffs on steel imports, it is fascinating to see from this graph the countries most affected, certainly not the ones we might have thought. It is a perfect example of …

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Revolutionary Math

Cape Cod in the winter is one of those marvelous places filled with interesting shops and people waiting in the quiet winter time for the soon to come crowds. It was on one of those pretend spring is here days in February that we went to visit a dear friend on the Cape and then …

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The Bit

The key to the digital age is also the key to learning algebra. Despite what many of us may believe, our digital age did not began with the microprocessor, or the personal computer, or even the iPhone; it began with a single amazingly simple idea by a quiet man who few of us would today …

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Exhausted

Teaching done right has always been a hard job, but it is now substantially harder. Talk to any teacher and they will tell you that they are overwhelmed. Blame it on kids more distracted, on parents more demanding, on the misery of an over reliance on testing that saps creativity and judges teachers on things …

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