Helpful information for surviving the zombie apocalypse. Image: Todd Hryck, via flickr.
Zombies. They’re everywhere. My dentist and his assistant spent my last visit and chatting about The Walking Dead while drilling into my head, and it seems like every reasonably large town hosts a zombie run. Science education is getting in on the tr [...]
Monthly archives for October, 2013
Zombie Fever: A Mathematician Studies...
Helpful information for surviving the zombie apocalypse. Image: Todd Hryck, via flickr.
Zombies. They’re everywhere. My dentist and his assistant spent my last visit and chatting about The Walking Dead while drilling into my head, and it seems like every reasonably large town hosts a zombie run. Science education is getting in on the tr [...]
Significantly Statistical Blogs
Image: xkcd.
It’s almost Halloween, so I thought it was appropriate to write about something scary: statistics! (That was a joke, statisticians.) As a mathematician, I can get by in statistics, but I am not a native speaker. As someone who writes about math and science for a non-specialist audience, I think that statistics and an accura [...]
On Mathematics Education and Music Ed...
This connection between mathematics education and music education has been made several times, especially in mathematics education circles. Paul Lockhart’s famous Mathematician’s Lament starts with an analogy between math education and music education. We would be appalled if music students weren’t allowed touch their instruments until they h [...]
Carnival of Mathematics #103
I hosted the 103rd Carnival of Mathematics on my blog Roots of Unity. Check it out!
Mathematics, Live: A Conversation wit...
Trachette Jackson: For me, I think, when you talk to people who are doing mathematics as their career, they often start with, “I was always good at math.” That was true of me, but I never thought of pursuing it as a career. I just thought it was something that I liked and that I was good at, until I got to college. I wasn’t [...]
Can a Closed Set Be Open? Can an Open...
A set that is neither open nor closed.
One of the questions on my midterm was: Describe a set in R2 that is neither open nor closed….I thought this was going to be one of the easier questions on the exam, so I was surprised that many of my students made the same mistake on it. Instead of giving me sets that were neither open nor closed, [...]
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