Education and Statistics
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Weekend gaming -- mutant sprouts
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A while back I posted a recommendation for a popular pencil-and-paper game: On the subject of topology, my game of choice is Sprouts, inven...
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Monday, December 5, 2011
If you first heard about your alma mater through spam, you may be dealing with a diploma mill
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I got the following piece of spam a few days ago. It was immediately notable because it appeared to have been sent from and to my email addr...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
"[T]he numbers show that wage inflation is — literally — the least of the problems when it comes to university cost inflation"
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The quote comes from Felix Salmon and it's part of an excellent discussion (nicely summarized at Rortybomb ). If you're interested...
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Dismembered Puppy Math
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There's a class of simple math problem that most fourth graders will get right and most tenth graders will get wrong. You can come up ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The good and bad sides of charter schools in N'Orleans*
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NPR gives us this good and nicely balanced report : MELISSA BLOCK, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block...
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
The worst example of curriculum dead wood?
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One of the first things that hit me when I started teaching high school math was how much material there was to cover. There was no slack, ...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
"I am not now and have never been a constructionist"
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(This post also appears at Observational Epidemiology.) After my last post thought I should run this titular disclaimer. For those of ...
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