June 2007 »

I just finished watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and in the course of cruising around the web for commentary about the movie and the science presented therein, I stumbled across this.

It is a short film about mathematics curriculums titled Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth, put out by a parent advocacy group in Washington called Where’s the Math? In particular, the film is arguing against the use of two particular curriculums, TERC and Everyday Math. Go watch the film (it’s about 15 minutes) and come back.

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Yep, I’m posting from an iPhone in the Apple store.

It’s pretty cool.

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So the latest news here at La Casa de Thought Bubbles is that I had all four wisdom teeth extracted last Thursday. They were all non-impacted and the oral surgeon assured me that it would be relatively painless and recovery would be easy. I had him put me under anyways, because I’m a big sissy. And because I have a serious needle phobia and really had no desire to be conscious for twelve injections of Novacaine.

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