Monthly Archives: November 2012

AMA (11.15.12)

“Why do people like symmetric things? What’s a cardioid? Why does the Fibonacci sequence show up in plants? What makes e so special?” There aren’t unequivocal answers to the first and third ones, but some speculations are more reasonable than … Continue reading

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Reading, writing, and understanding

I’m trying something a bit different in senior English today.  As I started writing some questions on the board for them to answer, one of my students said, “We have to discuss this reading before we get assessed on it. … Continue reading

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