Articles Tagged with mathematics

Still behind

Published on December 12, 2023December 11, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

A fragile system?

Teachers are still seeing the effects of the COVID lockdown.  Why?

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Common sense

Published on November 7, 2023November 6, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Everyone has it

We consider common sense as a philosophical principle.

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Teaching fractions

Published on September 5, 2023September 4, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Elementary does not mean easy

Our tutor confronts a challenge.

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Rewriting the textbooks

Published on August 8, 2023August 7, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

When, and why

We take a tired cliché seriously.

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Big Bang vs. Steady State

Published on June 20, 2023June 19, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

A misremembered episode

The Big Bang won.  But not the way it’s normally presented.

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Has it been done?

Published on May 30, 2023May 28, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The literature search

We describe a necessary but sometimes tedious step in scientific research.

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Beware 2038!

Published on March 28, 2023March 27, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Numbers and the sky

We describe a year when the rules don’t work.

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Factoring

Published on February 14, 2023February 12, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Four ways

Our tutor is faced with too many alternatives.

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What are the chances?

Published on January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Some Bayesian statistics

Mathematics isn’t always counterintuitive.

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Programmable (II)

Published on August 23, 2022August 22, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Victory of the geeks

We note one time when the computer-engineers won over the marketers.

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