Archive for March 2011
Numeracy and Twitter
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: March 31, 2011
This is a humorous post with a numeracy message that seems to be useful – especially for teachers. The website The Print Effect will print out a bunch of graphics helping you visualize the output of your entire Twitter timeline, which means your Tweets and those of your friends. Let’s suppose it’s @republicofmath we want […]
The changing nature of textbook publishing
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: March 28, 2011
I was told some juicy information about academic textbook publishing last week. A sales representative of a major textbook publisher discussed the medium term plans of the company as it re-thinks its role in publishing. We discussed the high price of calculus texts for students, a topic close to my heart. The new calculus book, […]
