(Note: as I struggle with learning a foreign language, I wrote this little piece. It’s supposed to be humorous – or is it?) This semester we have learned how to ask for directions to the library, analyzed passages by the greatest of the foreign language’s authors,and parsed details about the proper uses of the subjunctive… [Read More]
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Equations are the grammar of finance
One of my big challenges in teaching is to get students to think about equations as a way of communicating, as the grammar of finance, rather than as facts to be memorized. I learned how to crochet as a child, a thing I did with some friends to kill time in the summer. I’ve taken it… [Read More]
