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Reading the dial (I)

The graph and the digital clock

How do you tell time?

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Knowing too much (II)

Mind the gap

Sometimes there’s a space between too little and too much.

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Knowing too much

Experience and word problems

Who makes the best teacher?

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Knowing your limits

The art of the possible

We consider being more realistic in education.

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The sky is gone (II)

A long history

The stars have been getting harder to see for a long time now.

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The sky is gone

And it’s not coming back

Something you didn’t know you had is going away.

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The inefficient astronomer

Learning and relearning

We ponder an example of wasted time in science.

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Unnatural mathematics

Horizontal and vertical

Learning math involves unlearning many obvious things.

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The problem problem

A pursuit curve

Answering the problems you get in class is less difficult than posing them in the first place.

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Tilting at windmills

The vanishing knight

Where did Don Quixote go?

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