Category Archives: Links

September 28, 2011, 4:00 am

Midweek recap, 09.28.2011

Good stuff from the internet this past week:

John Golden (Mathhombre) shares an #edchat conversation about mathematical misconceptions of all sorts.
Maria Andersen (Teaching College Math) emphasizes a point you can’t make strongly enough: Failure is a NORMAL part of learning.
Ben Deaton (jbdeaton.com) has a great article of advice for surviving your first year of graduate school.
ProfHacker is starting a sweet-looking series of articles about using the command line interface. Talk about a lost art.
On the technical/math/crypto side, Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security) describes three emerging cyber threats. None of them have to do with hackers squatting over a computer in their dorm rooms or parents’ basement.
Danny Caballero (Think Like a Physicist) follows up a post featured on last week’s midweek recap by announcing (somewhat reluctantly) that they’ve gone with…

September 21, 2011, 9:00 am

Interesting stuff from elsewhere on the web this week:

Danny Caballero, who does really interesting research on physics education at UC-Boulder, has just started up his own blog. Every post on it so far has been excellent, but his article “Which computational tool should we teach?” in particular is a great analysis of three major computational software tools from the standpoint of teaching physics students computational modeling.
John D. Cook examines the question, what point on the Earth’s surface is farthest from its center? Hint: The answer involves trigonometry and is not Mount Everest.
Dave Richeson looks at an interesting probability rule (of thumb).
My GVSU colleague David Coffey considers the role of remuneration in the motivation of teachers.
Profhacker introduces us to Codeacademy, a sort of Khan Academy for computer science. On a related note, my afternoon just …