I can kind of understand why people do this, but really, it’s not the work you should be spending your precious time on.
17 May 2019
It’s amazing the amount of “bad” answers you can eliminate just by using the fact that your teacher is making a test.
15 May 2019
Nothing gets me more fired up than those who ignore the fact that students move on in mathematics when they aren’t ready.
10 May 2019
“When do you expect to get to version 1.1?”
“I don’t know, but the person who can figure it out will probably win a Nobel Prize!”
08 May 2019
It doesn’t make it easier that we seem to have a somewhat arbitrary application of this. We articulate NSERC, and LaTeX, but we spell out acronyms like UK or EU.
06 May 2019
“I was never really going to use this stuff anyway, so I actually dodged a bullet!”
01 May 2019
This works well when reading fiction, but textbook authors have an annoying habit of repeatedly referring to past material without giving the full explanation again, so it pays to take it slow.
29 Apr 2019