Pascal’s triangle is one of the most recognizable patterns that a student explores in algebra. It’s also an essential pattern that comes up over and over again. Pascal, the man behind the triangle, was nothing short of a genius. Rumor has it that his brain worked so fast that he would write little bits of […]
The first step to getting a good memory is to remember! Isn’t that helpful? No? Think of it this way: Have you ever had a friend that can raise only one eyebrow? Can you raise only one eyebrow? Have you ever tried? Do you hold one down, while moving your eyebrows to try to get
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Assessment, as you can imagine, is different for each student and each class. An elementary student is assessed for mastery in different ways than a high school student. We assess a student’s mastery of woodworking differently than we do his mastery of chemistry. These observations leave us no assistance in grading our high school level
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Memory as a culture is even more important than memory as an individual. After all, as an individual, I will die. When I do, my memory will be gone as well. Unless I pass the things worth remembering onto my children and my children’s children, my memories will cease. Keeping memories alive from one generation
Last week, we explored rhetoric a little. I say a little, because the study of rhetoric is vast and this is a little blog. One of the canons of rhetoric is memory. Of all of the canons, memoria seems to be the canon that most people gloss over. We spend months or years discovering what
