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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Procedure. When we get bogged down in the weeds it’s often in the weeds of procedure, and it’s procedure that gets us out. We search longingly for the one magic step that will save us from the slough of despond. As though we simply missed a step and fell. Maybe we did. Yet maybe, it
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Every once in a while I peruse past blog posts. Honestly, I think that the Lori of 2020 was probably smarter and had more to say than the Lori of 2025. Here’s the setting for you: I am at my desk after a great Algebra class trying to think about polynomials and what I can
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I have been reminded recently that life is full of cycles. It’s cyclical, which from a mathematician’s standpoint, means it’s repetitive and predictable. I find myself less than thrilled to be embarking on college admissions and all of the expectations that come with graduation again. Just as I spend large portions of the summer reminding
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Large families do everything together. They visit museums, go to parks, bike, hike, ski, everything. At some point though you find that the older children maybe don’t want to visit the same museum again, for they go every year. Like those dreaded Christmas movies that we watch in December out of some unspoken sense of
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