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Math Reading Challenge 2021
Even though I didn’t complete last year’s Math Reading Challenge (the shame!), I’m back at it again this year. Below are 12 prompts to guide your math-related reading in the coming year. Feel free to interpret the prompts in any way you wish and count one book for multiple prompts if that’s your style. I’ve set up a public G [...]
Memento Mori: A Cemetery Game
During this strange time when we are staying distant from each other, a long walk is a good way to get some exercise and a change of scenery. Cemeteries are great places to go for walks because they are peaceful and usually not too crowded. We have been going for a lot of walks in our local cemetery, and I put together this scavenger hunt for [...]
Math Reading Challenge 2020 tracker
Here is a pdf you can download and print out to keep track of your progress in the MathReadingChallenge2020.
Young People’s Singing flyers
This is a place where Utah Sacred Harp singers can find copies of a flyer and a poster for the all-day singing we are hosting at the end of September.
Flyer (prints 2 per page)
Poster (prints 1 per page)
Lots of people in Utah are looking for a family-friendly, free activity that engages the body, mind, and spirit and lets them connect with o [...]
The Funniest Math Joke
No disrespect to “why was six afraid of seven,” but “base 10″ is the funniest math joke.
I have made the mistake of unironically writing the phrase “base 10″ before, and I recently cringed and also laughed at an old post of mine that used the phrase “base 60” over and over again. I almost caught myself writ [...]
What I Wrote in September 2017
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
This is what I wrote in September 2017:
The Public Domain Review highlights weird and wonderful old books and other media. I wrote about some of its mathematical offerings.
The AMS Notices aske [...]
What I Wrote in March and April 2017
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
This is what I wrote in March 2017:
Being a trans mathematician: an interview with Autumn Kent March contains both International Women’s Day (the 8th) and Trans Day of Visibility (the 3 [...]
Help Me Solve a Geography Mystery
I got this cool bracelet recently. It’s made with part of an old globe. I bought it both because I like maps and because it has Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos on it, and we took a trip there last year.
Little did I know when I bought it, the bracelet also contains a geography mystery. Towards the top, there’s a little sliver of pink between Mo [...]
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, [...]
Making Maps
I’m at a ScienceOnline session on map tools. I’ve just gone through two tutorials so far. Here’s a map I made in ArcGIS that shows where a dam used to be in West Bend, Wisconsin.
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And here’s a map I made in CartoDB that shows countries’ deforestation from 1990-2010.
I just downloaded some census [...]
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