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She bet me $5 she wouldn't learn any mathematics

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 18, 2010

Some years ago I taught mathematical methods to prospective elementary teachers at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. In a class of 30 or so students there might be 2 or 3 young men, the rest being young women, principally from the Seattle area. Many of these prospective elementary teachers would volunteer they were math […]

A little bit of pi(e)

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 15, 2010

My wife likes to eat at Not Your Average Joe’s on Route 6 in Dartmouth, Massachusetss. I’m a vegetarian so my choices are more lmited. NYAJ has passable choices for a vegetarian, inlcuding pizzas. Usually a 10″ garden pizza does me. When I first started ordering pizzas from Joe’s I was still teaching pre-service elementary […]