The High School Juggling Act
It may be cliché, but it still holds as a solid metaphor. The act of juggling all the responsibilities, obligations, and other things that life requires is a delicate art that matches that of real...
View ArticleProcrastination
Sometimes I’m not really sure if I’m lazy or a masochist. Procrastination is an art from. It is practiced by everyone at some point, although some more than others. It causes an unhealthy amount of...
View ArticleWho Knew Pi Could Mean Stress?
Everyone I know who takes a math class always seems so stressed about it. That included me until June of 2011. I have been in advanced math since the sixth grade. Because of this, I finished all of...
View ArticleX = Haiku?
I’ve mentioned this before, and I will mention it many more times. I. Hate. Math. Everything about math makes me want to jump off a bridge: the numbers, the notes, the endless hours of hearing the...
View ArticleStuff Zack Likes: Webcomics
I am obssesed with web comics. Most people probably don’t even know what they are, let alone read them. Well, low and behold, web comics are comics that are on the web. They aren’t the super hero type...
View ArticlePi Day Video
(Words by Devin Wallace.) It’s the Holy Grail of holidays for bespectacled math teachers everywhere. Once a year students are subjected to a stream of numbers, the haunting calls of “3.14….” over and...
View ArticleArtistically speaking
Is mathematics art? Music, literature and even drawing all use numbers and numerical functions to make them into beautiful pieces of splendor and awe. But is the math behind them an art form itself? Or...
View ArticleIs the math taught in high school really necessary?
Kara’s expressionless eyes bore vacantly through the whiteboard before her, which was cluttered with foreign symbols, graphs and charts. Through the fog of her daydream she could almost hear the...
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