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Why I teach math through knitting
Sara Jensen, Carthage College One snowy January day, I asked a classroom of college students to tell me the first word that came to mind when they thought about mathematics. The top two words were “calculation” and “equation.” When I asked a room of professional mathematicians the same question, neither of those words were mentioned; instead, they offered phrases like “critical thinking” and “problem-solving.” This is unfortunately common. What professional mathematicians think of as mathematics is entirely different from what the general population thinks of as mathematics. When so many describe mathematics as synonymous with calculation, it’s no wonder we hear “I hate math” so often. So I set out…
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Jason O’Connor: Watching NFL v MLB
Watching the NFL versus MLB Imagine placing two flat screen plasma TV’s side by side in your living room smack dab in front of your couch. You’ve got beer, snacks a-plenty and fresh batteries in your clicker. One TV has an NFL game on and the other has a Major League Baseball game and they both start at the same time. Besides this being many sports fans’ idea of hog heaven and even better than clicking back and forth between games with only one TV, it’s fun to watch the differences between these two pro sports. Watching the NFL on TV is a…
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Dave Smith: My thoughts on why Donald Trump is doing as well as he is
Even though I think most of us are tired of being sold, hoodwinked, or basically lied to just to get our votes, we’re pretty much fed up with the normal politician, no matter who they are. But, there are some Americans that still believe some of them are really honest and care…….I’m not sure I know what to say to you guys there, but, how has that been working out for this country? OK, never mind. Anyway, here are some points that may spin a light on why people in the thousands are hopping on the Trump Express: Intense verbal attacks on police officers labeling them as racists who hunt…
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The Home Team by David Collins
Most of us are born to our allegiances. Especially for the home team. Our fathers taking us to our first baseball game, the perfectly manicured green grass and white on white of the baselines so precisely laid out before us as giants warmed up under the brilliant summer sun. From then to eternity that team was mine. It binds us to a town a city, an era, it becomes who we are, it defines us in ways beyond rational explanation. We wear our loyalty in game jerseys with our hero’s name emblazoned on the back, we paint our faces our team’s colors, we name our children after our favorite players.…
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Top 10 reasons why I love baseball
by Aron Wallad 1. The Ultimate Challenge Hitting a round ball with a round bat. The feeling I would get when I hit the ball. Just think of a baby that is crying for food. When that baby gets her bottle the first thing you hear is that ahhhhh sound. Oh that ah. When I hit a ball perfectly I would have that ahhhhh. 2. I call it contentment at a high level. I played all the time when I was a kid. Some of my favorite memories were from the diamond. When I hit two home runs in one game off the star pitcher form our High School team. I rounded…
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San Diego
I loved living in San Diego. I moved there in 1990 to begin my freshman year at UC San Diego, a school that I would probably never get into today if I applied! UCSD was perched on the cliffs of La Jolla, and if you had the right dorm room, like my friend Natalie did, your dorm room might even have an ocean view. I met my now husband, Greg, at UCSD in 1992. He’s from the Bay Area, but I did not hold that against him as long as he didn’t limit my paper towel usage. We are a mixed marriage-I’m Catholic and he is Jewish, he is a…
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Baseball and How It Relates to Life
By Colby M Brown Baseball has been my favorite sport ever since I can remember. The crack of the bat, the sound of the ball hitting the glove, all bring me joy. Baseball also has a lot of lessons that can relate to life. A strong work ethic, learning from failure, and having fun, are three valuable lessons I have learned from baseball that I apply to my everyday life. Lessons that I will never forget and try to improve on daily. Having a strong work ethic is vital in baseball. How do you expect to be good at it if you don’t work hard at it? The key to…
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Moms in a puddle of goo…
5th grade promotion, 2013 Windrows Elementary, Rancho Cucamonga CA Picture a video of our little cherubs while these tearjerkers played in the background. Not nice, Windrows!
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The Long and Winding Road
Alex passed his driving test!
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Where did the time go?
Alex takes his driving test on Friday. He is not all that excited, probably because driving adds an entirely new level of responsibility that he is not eager to embrace. While I am excited to have Alex drive for practical purposes, like his baseball games, I am sad too. He was a little boy five minutes ago, right? 2018-Alex could not even deal with his mom taking her annual “first day of school” picture, but since he got his driver’s license over the summer and he was driving to school for the first time-I was going to take his picture no matter how irritated he was. …
