Time marches on. So the saying goes as we desperately try to keep up, balancing our books, kids, chores, homes, communities, and everything else this modern life throws at us. When it comes to my game of Christmas catch up this year, I am forced to reevaluate my personal expectations. My specific struggle is related […]
Christmas is coming and with it is college application finalizations. Most college applications are probably submitted by now, but then come of the post application requirements. The official transcripts need to be sent, letters of recommendation, scholarship applications, and a host of other documents that serve to give a college a clear understanding of who
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The mathematical arts, also called the quadrivium and liberal arts of quantity or number, are arithmetic, geometry, harmony, and astronomy. Nicomachus tells us that arithmetic comes first, since “…the others logically presuppose it.” And “The universe seems to have been created using numbers. It is fitting, therefore, that numbers are harmoniously fitted together.” So understanding
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A couple of weeks ago I reminded you that patterns allow us to predict outcomes in the world around us. Whether the outcome is as simple as the total cost of buying multiple items at a store or as complicated as calculating the height that a ball reached when thrown, we can use mathematical models
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Logic has surfaced in all of my math classes this past week. I know that technically there is a logic class at Scio, albeit not live, so it shouldn’t surprise me, but I’m still pleasantly surprised to find logic alive and strong in my math students. How did this happen, you may ask? Graphing. In
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