Ah exam time. Time to catch up on those books and tv episodes you’ve missed while working on endless projects and studying for midterms. For me, exam time is also one of the few times during the year that my creative muse comes out from where it’s been hiding under my textbooks and smacks me […]

The following is the text of a talk that I gave at this summer’s CUMC at McGill. It went pretty well, and ended with a good discussion on what’s going on in the world of math education at various universities across the country. Hopefully this dialogue will continue - perhaps through a wiki that Andrew Scaaf and I will be working on over the next little while.

I’m not going to let being rejected* by the nserc folks stop me from doing math! Today I went to the colloquium which happens every Friday at 2:30 in Jeffrey rm 234. It was pretty fun, although a lot like listening to someone speaking spanish; I know languages that are similar, but I only catch […]

Math club this afternoon! Thursdays are my favourite days! I wish we could have math club _every_ day!!! I suppose, math classes are math club to some extent, but still.
What we’re learning these days is really neat. It’s like we’ve gone back to being five years old, and we’re just learning to count again, and […]