See this fun video of Chloe Epstein’s class demonstrating the difference between Angular Speed and Linear Speed.
In Defense of High Stakes
In setting students up for success beyond school, is there merit to high-stakes forms of assessment? Read this post by Nick Zufelt, Instructor in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science and Tang Fellow for the Tang Institute’s blog.
Unused Business Cards Become Menger Sponges
The Menger sponge is a fractal which is the three-dimensional analog of the Sierpinski carpet. As the number of iterations approaches infinity, the construction’s volume approaches zero while it’s surface area increases without bound. Mr. Lisa’s 575 classes ended up building a level-2 sponge entirely out of business cards.