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Heartwarming: The Thousands Of Texts And Photos Exchanged Between This High School Math Teacher And Her Male Student Were About The Pythagorean Theorem
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (278+ words) Looking to feel all warm and fuzzy? Well, here you go: Awwwww. Just a dedicated teacher working overtime off the clock to help a student understand a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry! When 16-year-old Reno High School student Bryan Clark's…...
The "Plan B" Insult: Why a Student is Heartbroken After Her Advisor Suggested Dentistry as a "Backup" to Medicine
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (555+ words) When taking exams at school to see what job you might be able to get, it is good to try for things you want but also to have realistic expectations. What would you do if you had a student who…...
Approximating even functions by powers of cosine
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (221+ words) A couple days ago I wrote a post about turning a trick into a technique, finding another use for a clever way to construct simple, accurate approximations. I used as my example approximating the Bessel function J(x) with (1 + cos(x))/2. I…...