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after the con 1 Aug 2013 | 04:53 am
07/14/13 more fun with yin and yang what was the question? 07/15/13 i got a dance… philosophy 101 07/16/13 behind the curtain dad was a magician 07/16/13 symbolism supression the horror… 07/21/13 ...
(a=b)\implies( f(a) = f(b) ) 27 Jul 2013 | 03:51 am
so. a poor workman blames his tools and i’m about to get right back to it. recap: i’m just as guilty as anyone else. when there’s stuff i think i’d *like* to know… but that i *don’t* know… there a...
none so blind 25 Jul 2013 | 05:26 pm
now at least part of the point of me going on about *my own* “bullshit commitments (BC’s) will have been that i’m about to start looking at somebody *else’s*. and i am. so why make a fuss? well, ...
more about bullshit commitments 23 Jul 2013 | 06:26 pm
a (pretty commonplace) math-ed BC nurtured by me at various times: “never memorize what can instead be calculated out from first principles.” (particular examples: *the quadratic formula i’ve e...
bullshit commitments 21 Jul 2013 | 11:54 am
BC’s are a certain species of what are (annoyingly) called “rationalizations”: excuses to avoid looking at something we… umm… fear? no, let’s not bring *that* into it… something we *aren’t will...
selected posts (a compilation) 18 Jul 2013 | 04:12 am
VME: Vlorbik on Math Ed 2007 june 06/07/07 First Post hello, world 06/08/07 Why I Teach Such Good Classes (2003) short zine piece 06/12/07 Eliminating The Middle, Man “and” versus 06/22/07 {X:X ...
set symbolism suppression 16 Jul 2013 | 10:54 pm
eliminating the middle, man (06/07) was my third post (in vlorbik on math ed, as this site was first known [to 01/10. next was MathEdZineBlog, to 01/13; then a grader's notes]). my fourth post w...
the man behind the curtain 16 Jul 2013 | 09:35 am
dad was a magician. by the time i knew him, he was also a life-of-the-party singer-&-piano-player; also an outstanding classroom lecturer. so quite the performer all-around. but he’d been a magic...
i got a dance, ain’t got no steps 15 Jul 2013 | 08:07 pm
when i was back there in philosophy 100, there was a person there (earl, if i remember correctly, conee… something like that). young guy, probably a grad student as i understand now, shaved cueba...
to whom it concerns 15 Jul 2013 | 02:37 am
i’ve just posted a bunch of emails to people i’ve never emailed until now. all by itself, this would be a good thing. but it now occurs to me that because most of them have at least a couple URL’s...
