Hello mathematicians, puzzlers, and other curious people!
It\’s Thursday afternoon, between teaching at The Day Job and meeting with tutoring clients, and I\’m thinking about next week.
On Monday at 11 Central Time (less than four days from now, where does the time go?) I\’ll be at the public library in Nacogdoches with students in the Prealgebra Module A: Whole Numbers beta test group. And a bit before that I\’ll be there to set up and be findable as people arrive.
Since we\’ll be meeting from a public location, with their wifi, we\’ll have to see how well it holds up to livestreaming. If it doesn\’t, I\’ll make a video offline instead and schedule a separate watch party + chat session for students who want as close to a real-time class experience as possible.
None of this quite expresses how flippin\’ excited I am.
On Monday we start breaking a hole through one of the two big walls of math, algebra. Calculus is the other one, and for less cause — for many math majors\’ classes hidden behind the calculus wall, there\’s no need to know calculus to do the work. In comparison, skill with handling formulas genuinely helps in many classes where algebra is a prereq, such as stat, geometry, and number theory.
When people don\’t get a grip on algebra as it flies by them in school, and trying to teach themselves from the book doesn\’t work either, they think they can\’t do math.
We\’re done with can\’t.
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