We have a love/hate relationship with math in our house. Much like our fickleness about the weather, we love math when it is fine, and hate it when it is gray and cold. Recently, I have discovered the joy of the order of mathematics and how it is reflected in my daily life. When a
Mathematics spreads like wildfire. The more you understand numbers, the more you see them everywhere, and the more you wonder why it took us hundreds of years to create numbers. I jest, of course. For the concepts of mathematics and numbers were being used by humans many years before anyone wrote it down. That is
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Tolkien says that everything that we experience is a myth. It is not that what we experience isn’t true or factual, but that there is more to our lives than what is in front of us. There is more truth in the world than what we can measure, because myth is more than the sum
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The cost of saying yes is an analysis that mathematicians are always exploring. What does this purchase actually cost me? What kind of fruit comes from this relationship? or work? class? How do we know when to say yes and when to pass? Learning to observe, predict, and calculate possible benefits and drawbacks can help
Time has performed its magic yet again. It seemed that we merely blinked and the beginning of the school year with all of its hopes, dreams, promises, and adventure, has faded into the rearview window. Or maybe not. Maybe this year finds you reflecting on that young sprite from September as one full of potential
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