by Jim Stitzel | Aug 15, 2013 | General
I was helping the girls with their Algebra II homework last night, specifically with a Challenge question that was stumping them. It looked something like this (actual values changed so as to avoid giving away the textbook solution): CHALLENGE: For any three distinct...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 20, 2008 | General
I love “this post”:http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/2008/11/testing_123.php from Matt Spring on “Built on Facts”:http://scienceblogs.com/builtonfacts/ the other day. In it he describes a mathematical manipulation on a test that “he...
by Jim Stitzel | Aug 18, 2008 | General
Built on Facts : What Work Is..
by Jim Stitzel | Jan 31, 2008 | General
Ok, so in my Real Analysis class, we’re finally getting down into the nitty-gritty of discussing mathematical grammar for proofs. We’ve been discussing statements and their negations, converses, and contrapositives. We began with two statements: P: I eat...
by Jim Stitzel | Jan 27, 2008 | Asides
Signs of a potentially disturbed mind: Not wanting to go to bed because you’re having too much fun performing long division – in binary.
