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It's All-Natural: Saving Venice & the Foundations of Mathematics

2/26/2016

As a high school teacher I am required to obtain continuing education units - fondly referred to people in many fields as CEUs. Today I just finished a 5-day, 40-hour course called the Foundations of Mathematics.

If that sounds excruciating imagine that there were 20-ish people there with me - and we all found it exceedingly interesting. Note my choice of the word "exceedingly".

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I Climbed Mt. Everest (sort Of)

2/25/2016

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It was March 2014 and I had pretty much oozed into my chair at work. Hadn't worked out much if at all. Whatever New Year's resolutions I had set for improving fitness had faded away a couple months earlier.

So I decided to climb Mount Everest.

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A Life Lesson in ... Trig Identities?

2/17/2016

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Did you take trigonometry? Remember those identities you had to prove?
Something like this…

If you just cringed, I understand. You’re one of the 9 out of 10 people that, uh, “intensely disliked” trigonometry in high school to put it nicely. Good news! You don’t have to solve it to get the point here. Now this will be hard to believe but seriously, there’s a life lesson here.

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