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2016-02-26
Link: Math Circles at the Atlantic
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An article this month at the Atlantic on the explosive rise of extracurricular (and expensive) advanced-math circles and competitions, to ma...
2016-02-19
Link: Common Core Battles
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A nice overview of the history of the battles around Common Core. Starts with a surprising anecdote about Bill Gates getting the brush-off w...
2016-02-15
Hembree on Math Anxiety
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Reviewing a 1990 paper by Ray Hembree on math anxiety; a meta-study of approximately 150 papers, with a combined total of about 25,000 subje...
2016-02-12
Link: The Learning Styles Neuromyth
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A nice article reminding us that the whole idea of teaching to different "learning styles" is entirely without any scientific evid...
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2016-02-05
Link: Study Time Decline
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An interesting article analyzing the history of reported study time decline for U.S. college students. Point 1: Study time dramatically d...
2016-02-01
When Dice Fail
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Some of the more popular posts on my gaming blog have been about how to check for balanced dice, using Pearson's chi-square test ( testi...
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2016-01-30
Link: Tricky Rational Exponents
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Consider the following apparent paradox: \(-1 = (-1)^1 = (-1)^\frac{2}{2} = (-1)^{2 \cdot \frac{1}{2}} = ((-1)^2)^\frac{1}{2} = (1)^\frac{...
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