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Mathematics is not a spectator sport
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: April 13, 2013
In the video below, Aziz Belhassane Sensei is demonstrating Aikido at the Sugano Shihan Memorial Summer School 2011. Whether you know Aikido or not, the thing you will notice, especially if I point it out to you, is that Aikido is not a spectator activity. You cannot learn Aikido simply by watching someone else. Watching is critical, paying attention is critical, but doing is the essence. Currently […]
Geogebra and statistics
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: April 4, 2013
The Geogebra folks continue to work at developing the capabilities of this lovely open source software. In February this year they added a spreadsheet capability to the software I have a bunch of fairly naive questions about the use of Geogebra for statistics. Probably the main questions are: Who is using it to teach statistics, and at what levels (elementary school, middle school, high school, college, […]
