mars 2016

By Laura Tropp. I recently read this post in The New York Times about Charles Duhigg, who was working on his book Smarter Faster Better that focuses on productivity in life and business. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. I sometimes am greeted by strange looks when I say that I have my students dance in one of my math courses. Combining an experience of the proprioceptive sense (which tells you where you are located in space) with that of the visual sense gives, I believe, an entirely new way of understanding concepts. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. I recall a Statistics text book that presented a question about probability, asking what was what the chance of a randomly selected person having a birthday in the month of March. Immediately after posing this question, they followed it up by specifying that all the months have the same number of days in them, probably because the original question had an intrinsic flaw in not recognizing this. Read more...

By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I was in graduate school, I sometimes used a program that came to statistical conclusions using an iterative procedure. If I remember correctly, these iterations, where the results are derived from earlier results, reminded me of the process we are about to enter in the next few weeks, often called “March Madness.” For, in the next few weeks, basketball teams will meet and play games, with each moving on to the next level depending on who wins games at the previous level. Read more...

By Laura Tropp. I came home from a long day at the office, and my children told me I should come into living room for a play performance that they had been working on all day (they were on February break which always falls just when my semester ramps up). Read more...