…were in rare form today. (Well, just the 2pm and 3pm sections… the 9am class is still waking up at that time of day, I think.) Maybe it had something to do with the Strong Bad jack-o-lantern that I brought in today..
Someone in my 2pm class had a foam-dart gun, which was fired [...]
… isn’t for a couple more months. but, while doing some research for my calculus class, I found out that:
I share a birthday with C.S. Lewis, Mariano Rivera, and Jacques Chirac
my birthday is the 333rd day of the year – except in leap years, when it’s #334. (one third, anyone?)
my birthday was the [...]
Today’s the day we watch Donald in Mathmagic Land in class. Seriously, this Investigations class is the most enjoyable course I’ve ever taught. There’s something very fulfilling about doing math with people who don’t normally like to do math, under the auspices of not doing math at all. … On my way back [...]
I’ve been amazed at the baseball statistics that appear on espn.com due to the “people at retrosheet.org”… so much so that tonight, while proctoring a math test, I decided to do a little research of my own.
There’s an immense amount of data that one can sift through at one’s leisure… want to know the team [...]
In the Investigations in Mathematics classes, we’ve been looking at the topic of infinity in some detail this week.. specifically, we’re leading up to the idea that there are different sizes of infinity. But Tara posed an interesting question to me yesterday afternoon: Why does it matter? Why make college students [...]
This week’s emphasis, both in chapels and in seminary classes, has been holiness. All semester, in fact, I have been studying the holiness movement that began in the early to mid-nineteenth century as part of my Constructive Theology class. I have found that portion of church history very interesting, because it serves as [...]
to have come so close to the playoffs… to have reduced a 15-game deficit by a factor of 10… to have an incredibly successful second half of the season… to inspire hope and excitement in the hearts of fans around the country…
and then to lose six out of seven and consequently knock [...]
