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An Intriguing COVID-19 Question – A Mathematics Answer

“Suppose the COVID19 test is 97% accurate, and you’re in a room where everyone has just tested Negative.  With that 97% confidence-level percentage, how many[…]

Teaching Fish to Climb Trees?

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole live believing that[…]

Cartoons, Numbers, and Mathematics

Within roughly 24 hours in this past week, I ran into two cartoons that dealt with topics we have kicked around before, one of them[…]

Learning to Hate Math?

Drawn Into the Fun It all started with one of those “if you get this, you are a critical thinker” brain teasers posted on Facebook. […]

Hell Weeks, Pandemics, and New Paradigms

A College Memory Thankfully, this is no longer politically correct, but way back in my college days, college fraternities had Hell Weeks.  In my case,[…]

Impossible Choices for Impossible Times

It was a microcosm of the difficult world we now navigate daily, and apparently it was extremely difficult, even sad, to watch.  One knew it[…]

School Reopenings: Three Key Questions

            I feel like a ping-pong ball when reading/hearing all the opinions on school reopenings.  So many valid points, yet[…]

A Dozen Years Later . . . The Gap Year Phenomenon

I received some interesting comments related to the previous two columns about starting school at different ages.  One of them had an unexpected twist: “.[…]

Starting School at 5, 6, 7, or 8?

“You can’t start school at 7 years old.  You can’t make that time up.” So says Missouri state legislator Ian Mackey, from St. Louis County. […]

Mrs. Schumacher and My Brother

Previously, I mentioned my 8th grade math class, fearlessly led by our beloved Mrs. Schumacher.  We discussed an extra credit Bonus Problem the class had[…]

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