Humans are cyclical. We live in cycles. Whether it’s the seasons, everyday needs, or health, we tend to require the same things over and over: lather, rinse, repeat. I have been contemplating the importance of thinking and taking time to process lately. It’s so easy for our tasks to swallow up our growth, like a […]
Fifth mondays in the month mean throwback blog posts and since Easter is fast approaching, here is our reminder from the great Blaise Pascal about why we follow Christ: Jesus Christ has verified that He was the Messiah, never in verifying His doctrine by Scripture and the prophecies, but always by His miracles. (Pascal, 808)
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Now that we’ve determined when procedures are necessary and how to not be entangled in the mindless following of said procedures. Let’s go ahead and review a few simple key steps to making a good procedure. First, when you are faced with a series of problems that appear to contain a hidden truth and consistency
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I recently urged you to not lose beauty for the sake of mastering a procedure. I still hold to this, but I want to remind you not to fall off of the horse on the other side. Procedures are important. While it may be true that focusing solely on procedures reduces are children to computers,
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The whole is the sum of its parts. This is a property that we learn and rely heavily upon in our study of Geometry, but we practice its usefulness in Algebra, especially when learning about polynomials. Most students of algebra can look at the figure on the left above and calculate the area of the
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