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Nowadays, I'm anti-factoring trees. It's funny, because they're not usually part of the classes I teach, but they've come up...

Like a drunk uncle Stumbling towards the bathroom door Mistakes will happen More anti-PEMDAS proselytizing here.

Previously observed -- Operations on powers with the same base effectively shift one place down in the order of operations. Examples: Exp...

On the subject of students not understanding equals signs -- probably not the first time someone pointed this out, but -- How much of this i...

I find that students in my statistics class are almost totally bewildered by the logic of hypothesis testing and P-values (for hypotheses ba...

Another fabulous anecdote from the RJLipton Blog , regarding the Higgs Boson (what's popularly called "The God Particle"): ...

An excellent MadMath-approved quote from Freeman Dyson: If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve ...