MadMath
"Beauty is the Enemy of Expression"
2025-01-27
The Death of Chegg
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One of the silver linings of the boom of LLM AI's such as ChatGPT is the very sudden demise of one of the worst companies in existence, ...
2024-10-09
Retention and Interventions
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I saw a new report on retention for freshmen students at CUNY recently. This chart of CUNY Guttman (formerly the New Community College) rete...
2024-09-02
A Strange Commitment
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I was recently reminded of this anecdote from Junaid Mubeen, originally in Bright Magazine. Juniad recalls a time where he assisted his 12-y...
2024-08-26
Phonics Makes a Comeback
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As a long-time instructor of remedial math at a community college (among other things), I've always felt strongly that our discipline is...
2024-08-05
Duality of Floor and Modulus
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Have you ever considered the duality of the floor and modulus operators, in that either one can be expressed in terms of the other (along ...
2024-07-08
Yes, Euclid's Proof of Infinite Primes Uses Contradiction
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It's common nowadays in conversations about the method of proof-by-contradiction for someone to pop in and say, "People think Eucli...
2024-02-12
A Game for Bored Math Teachers
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Let's say you're an instructor in a low-level math course; maybe something like college algebra, a liberal-arts math course, or some...
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