Oct 2023 RSS Feed

1. SIMIODE Director's Blog - The Wisdom of Willie Nelson

   Entry #3452

   23 Oct 2023

   12:21 am

   Brian Winkel

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   The Wisdom of Willie Nelson In spending time on FaceBook I found the following quote from Willie Nelson, the great American country and rock and roll musician, “If you can be content right now, then you’ll always be content, because it’s always right now.” When I was...

2. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Wish I Did Not Know Now What I Didn't Know Then

   Entry #3451

   23 Oct 2023

   12:19 am

   Brian Winkel

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   Wish I Did Not Know Now What I Didn't Know Then We were in a "saloon" restaurant in Grand Marais MI USA recently when the juke box started to play a song whose refrain and title were "Wish I Didn't Know Now What I Didn't Know Then." It was sung by the country...

3. SIMIODE Director's Blog - This says it all - student feedback

   Entry #3450

   23 Oct 2023

   12:12 am

   Brian Winkel

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   This says it all - student feedback Just rediscovered this from an old web site for a course, Math in the City, at University of Nebraska home page. Most important line under Student Feedback: "I liked the fact that we didn't know what we were capable of doing until we did...

4. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Purpose of education is to change what you believe

   Entry #3449

   23 Oct 2023

   12:10 am

   Brian Winkel

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   Purpose of education is to change what you believe. Brandon Busteed, Chief Partnership Officer and Global Head of Learn-Work Innovation interviewed Daniel Kahneman (whose name you have been hearing lots with respect to role of AI) and posted his reaction to what Kahneman said, namely “The...

5. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Asking Questions

   Entry #3448

   23 Oct 2023

   12:07 am

   Brian Winkel

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   Asking Questions Under the story title, “The Power of ‘Why?’ and ‘What If?’” Warren Berger writes in The New York Times  on 2 July 2016 about the importance of asking questions. In talking to a senior manager, she told him, “They were smart,...

6. SIMIODE Director's Blog - What's In Your Learning?

   Entry #3447

   23 Oct 2023

   12:01 am

   Brian Winkel

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   What’s in your learning Years ago, close to our founding time of 2013 at our SIMIODE Staff Meeting held at SIMIODE World Headquarters (the dining room table at our home in Cornwall NY USA) I had shared with SIMIODE’s two technical directors, Leigh Noble and Mark Tourtellott, some...

7. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Power Series Solution - LLC and Textbook

   Entry #3446

   22 Oct 2023

   3:24 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   From time to time we get information about new ventures. Recently,  Jim Sochacki (sochackipowerseriessolutions@gmail.com), President/ Owner of Power Series Solution, LLC, at http://ps-solns.com/ shared with us news of  a new textbook, Applying Power Series to...

8. SIMIODE Director's Blog - Wave of the future and it is good for mathematics

   Entry #3122

   20 Oct 2023

   1:29 am

   Brian Winkel

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   Wave of the future and it is good for mathematics I was working in the food court area several years back at a MathFest Conference and the huge area was silent. No doubt because others were not redoing their presentations for tomorrow as I was, but rather were out enjoying the culture in the...

9. SIMIODE Director's Blog - How we teach applied math

   Entry #3121

   13 Oct 2023

   1:28 am

   Brian Winkel

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   How we teach applied math "Is it better to teach pure math instead of applied math?"  That is the question used as a title for a column by Jill Barshay, of The Hechinger Report:  Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education. The column begins, "Abstract, pure math...

10. SIMIODE Director's Blog - A sock came back from the other side

    Entry #3120

    06 Oct 2023

    1:27 am

    Brian Winkel

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    A sock came back from the other side I had four pairs of compression socks per my doctor's suggestion so that circulation in my legs would be better. They are not cheap, but they do make me more comfortable, as they keep down the swelling. Several months ago, one of the socks went over to...

11. SIMIODE Director's Blog - What makes it great

    Entry #3119

    06 Oct 2023

    1:24 am

    Brian Winkel

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    What makes it great   When living 50 miles north of New York City my wife and I attended many musical events each year. One series we liked is entitled, "What Makes It Great." These lecture/concerts are held in the Merkin Concert Hall of the Kaufman Music Center in Manhattan, New...