Mathematician and writer

Monthly archives for December, 2019

The Math Reading Challenge 2020

Dec 30, 2019 ~ Written by evelyn
I was one of those kids who always had a book at the table or on a road trip, and although I’m now too polite to read over dinner with people, I’m still an avid reader. I try to read books from a wide range of authors, genres, and time periods. For a few years now, I have used the Popsugar Reading Challenge as a way to inspire me to read outs [...]
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Math Reading Challenge 2020 tracker

Dec 27, 2019 ~ Written by evelyn
Here is a pdf you can download and print out to keep track of your progress in the MathReadingChallenge2020.
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Eight Degrees North

Dec 08, 2019 ~ Written by evelyn
Eight degrees doesn’t sound like much. It’s only 1/45 of the way around a circle. On a globe, it’s about nine percent of the angular distance between the Equator and the North Pole. Today, I live eight degrees farther north than where I grew up. As one would expect, the climate is a bit different. Latitude is part of that: on any given day, i [...]
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