Few modern people can get away with a single name. A few may come to mind, but ancient history are full of those one named wonders. Euclid is one of the most recognizable names in history, and all he did was write a single book. It may have had 13 volumes, but it was a
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Euclidian geometry conjures up images of shapes with all of their angles, lines, tick marks, and sides. The most picturesque branch of high school mathematics is geometry. Geometry after all is the science or art of measuring the earth. It started with the images of the created world around us and is often learned using
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My algebra 2 class started rubbing elbows with Calculus this past month. Do the students know how close they got to the infinite God? Do they see that their discovery of an asymptote of a rational function is the beginning of the study of calculus? No. Except that I told them. I cannot let an
Pragmatism is not the enemy of a classical education. And yet… Somedays I bounce from practical to theoretical faster than a ping pong ball. I relish the delight and wonder of pondering the “deeper magic” and the beauty of the mathematics of calculus or even exponential functions. I want my children and students to glory
Change is everywhere. Beyond the sudden change of children’s growth and maturity, there is the slow change of aging. Everything seems to be in a constant state of flux. As Heraclitus famously said, “you can never step into the same river twice.” because the water is always changing. This concept of change has pondered and
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