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New Chapter on Mathematical Literacy
I am quite happy to see that Shifting Contexts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education, a new volume from MAA Press edited by Luke Tunstall, Gizem Karaali, and Victor Piercey. The volume collects papers on mathematical literacy and addresses many ways we can improve it. From the description:
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Howard County Should Free the Zoning Board
The time has come for Howard County to do the easy thing and separate the Zoning Board from the County Council. The business of local government, other than policing, is basically land use. This covers zoning, planning, permitting, and all the associated facets of trying to build something new. There
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A Note on Kanji and Hànzì
This is a really fun little narrow bit of amusement I got out of this, but it is worth sharing. I was watching a video from LangFocus about kanji. I really like the presenter, and this is a neat video: But never one to watch just one video when one
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Howard County Land Use Rules of Procedure
We have a local organization called the Howard County Citizens Association. I have never been quite sure what it is they stand for, but recently, they proposed a set of changes to the rules of procedure for the Zoning Board: Communication Outside of a Hearing – state the recourse the
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I am kind of curious about how posts without images will look on this page. I mean, let’s be honest, finding unencumbered images to use with each post can be quite time consuming…and it is not always clear what image makes sense. So here I am, lorem ipsumming the day
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Blockchain Applications for Distributed Data
I was unable to capture the audio from my talk, but last Friday, I spoke at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings on the Mathematics in the Realm of Cyber Research research track. There, I spoke about an application of blockchain we had here for using blockchain to supplement the domain
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Program Management Course
I am teaching a new course this spring at Central Michigan University. This course, MSA 607 – Program Management in Complex Organizations, expands on traditional project management. The goal here is to understand how, in larger organizations, projects relate to each other and the organization itself. The Project Management Institute,
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