Natural Blogarithms

This one’s a new one for me. It is definitely intuitive but I would have never thought of name for it!
You cannot comb a hairy ball.
The Hairy Ball Theorem states that if you take a ball that is evenly covered with hairs, no matter how you comb the ball, there must be a part [...]

Click on the image above to play a video, from Multitouch Research at NYU. HT: Gaussian Nodes
So now that they’ve got a “Star Trek”-like interface, I’m ready for the Holodeck and the replicators!

Did I ever tell anyone how much I love grading? No? There’s a reason why I haven’t. So, I like to know where my students stand but there comes a point that I begin to lose my patience. Recently, the world of downloadable music and playlists on my IPAQ has helped [...]

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I love teaching mathematics! (Good day)

I’ve created another blog that a few of my readers may be more interested in. The content on Natural Blogarithms will continue to be a mix of math, education and faith. I am moving my personal entries regarding family and parenting stuff over to a new blog. Check it out, if you [...]

I am not a huge fan of blonde jokes, but every once in a while one tickles me. This just might be the greatest blonde joke, ever.

I was wrong. In class this morning, I seemed have fabricated a memory. I could have sworn that somewhere in either reading or my many math classes over the years that I was taught the name of the components of a subtraction problem. We most all still remember the names of the [...]

As I told two of my classes yesterday, “I love the first day of class each semester!! It’s like standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon, a magnificent, beautiful, breathtaking scene. You’re on the edge of all this new information, new skill, new knowledge. It’s just sitting there waiting for us [...]

I am becoming a goal oriented person. That’s not been true my entire life but having just finished some major long term goals this year, I am now in a bit of a vacuum when it comes to life goals. I had a few big ones, such as finish my Ph.D., have a [...]