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...competition between Hugh and a really, really ridiculously good-looking statue, resurrected for the purpose. The literal deification of the dork and the lovelorn trials of geeky girl and resident accountant Roseanne (Derek S. Mueller ’10) make for a show that joins frat boys and math puns. Writers Alexandra A. Petri ’10 and Megan L. Amram ’10 opted to limit the offensive one-liners in the all-male Parthenon-era performance to pokes at a capella groups, and the jokes flow unhindered by the cringeworthy jabs that have plagued past...
...most difficult part of this proposal. While many financial institutions would immediately discount the plan, ultimately persuading them to accept it is not unreasonable. It is true that for those institutions that hold physical mortgages, their maximum potential profit will go down. For a 30% decrease in principal, the math works out to some $3 trillion potentially lost on residential mortgages as of mid-2008, according to the Federal Reserve. But if Americans keep defaulting on these mortgages and asset values continue to crash, the total loss to the financial world will be far greater than $3 trillion...
...course, I know it isn’t fractions—or my frequent, terrible math jokes—that brought Rick into my classroom. He wandered in because he knows that I’m always teaching something, making something up, throwing something out there. I don’t always do it well, and my kids don’t always get it, but they do always respond to energy and creativity...
...moment I’m less than one year out of college, still amazed that, with my History and Literature degree, I’m teaching math to students who are usually five or six grade levels behind where they should be. I’m still discovering all the places inside our copier where a sheet of algebra problems can crinkle and jam (six and counting...
...always want to learn all day, and they certainly don’t want to be lectured to or, even worse, “preached at.” But even the worst schools in the country are filled with kids who would, if they could, be math juggernauts and masters of English grammar—if they have the right instructor...