Retirement Celebration... I am retiring from the math department at my college after 29 years. Twenty-nine most enjoyable years. I am retiring along with my friends Cathy, Jim, and Joe. A few weeks ago, my colleague Brad asked the math faculty if they would like to have a retirement celebration for us. They said yes and I said,...

Dimensions and Ghosts?... I teach at least one algebra class every semester. I always spend some extra time on finding equations of lines and graphing lines. I like to give my students the “big picture” of how graphs are constructed, what graphs do for us and what they mean. This spring 2009 semester I had two algebra classes...

The Distributive Property... Last Friday, May 8, 2009, I met my friend Guy at the King Salad fast food Chinese place for lunch. We meet there often as they have a great buffet with a real good Mongolian Beef and all the diet coke you can drink. We discuss this and that and are often able to solve many complex world problems. Most...

Little Big Thoughts... One day, a few years ago, I saw a little bug walking around in my bathtub. It would walk over here, then over there, then decide it needed to be over here again. Sometimes, while walking, it would turn at an acute angle, sometimes at an obtuse angle, and sometimes it would just turn 180 degree and walk...