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This is a guest-post. I’ve never had a guest-post on the Math Mojo Chronicles before, but I’m open to anything that fits in with the Math Mojo Manifesto, and had real value for readers. Jeremy Fordham has written just such an article, and I’m happy to present it to you here: A Look at 9 [...] There is a phenomenon that I call, “self-induced retardation.” This simply means that a person is, in genteel terms, “an assh@le” – someone who is so sure that they are right, but are so wrong, that they are absolutely oblivious to the anything that approaches sense. This video will illustrate what I mean… [...]
There is a post about “Why I Love Mathematics” at AnAmazingMind.com . Go there and check it out. It is short, but it is right on target. If you have any lingering doubts about the beauty and fun of math, it should clear them up.
Really. It’s a great article. I know that in the last post I mentioned that it is pretty much impossible to explain to immature minds what the benefits of learning math or any other skill is. But I assume if your a Math Mojo reader, you have a pretty mature mind. (Cool sentence, eh? I get to flatter both [...] What the heck does writing backwards have to do with math? For me, it’s a sort of warm-up exercise to get me into the creative, non-judgemental flow of opening my mind. This helps let answers come to me that my mind would otherwise have blocked out. It makes thinking less of a chore and [...] While surfing some of the other math blogs in the blogosphere, I ran across a post in Michael Paul Goldenberg’s Rational Mathematics Education blog. In a recent post of his he mentions an article written by Paul Lockhart entitled, “A Mathematician’s Lament.” It was written in 2002, but has only gotten mass coverage recently, since [...] (Continued from the previous three posts.) What if I Fail 9th Grade Math? (Part 1) What if I Fail 9th Grade Math? (Part 2) What if I Fail 9th Grade Math? (Part 3) The reader replied to my answer: thank you professor for answering all of my future qustions, but u never answered my old [...] Have you ever been somewhere and people are talking about something and there is one bumpkin who doesn’t have a clue what the others are talking about? People sort of feel that person is a bit of an idiot. [...] Here’s how it works (and I wish to God someone had filled me in on this when I was young): To beat them at their own game, you must rebel by excelling. Don’t hurt yourself by being a loser. Hurt them by being a winner. Then stick it to them. [...] You must decide for yourself to excel in that which you previously sucked at. Get a book called “The Realm of Numbers” by Isaac Asimov out of your library (ask them to order it if they don’t have it.) and READ IT! It is old fashioned, but don’t mind that, the information is great. [...] |
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