Nick Straka

One of my favorite quotes twitter.com/johndcook/stat…

Oppenheimer on higher education

Temple Grandin has a piece in ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ called “Against Algebra.” Since everyone is going to be discussing it in the next few days, I guess you should read it. It’s full of both interesting ideas and exasperatingly wrong ones. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Getting ready to teach line integrals of vector fields: Work done by a force dynamicmath.xyz/math2001/chapt… Images made with @geogebra + Slides @revealjs #iteachmaths #opensource #mathematics #education

If a linear ODE has complex eigenvalues, solutions oscillate. If real parts are negative, oscillations decay exponentially.

An oldie but a goodie

Life begins at conception and ends in an elementary school classroom.

D203 board members, Superintendent Dan Bridges, and all the teachers and staff, it's another tough day but you made the right call keeping the layered mitigation plan. Parents appreciate it as we all navigate through this week.

Proofs without words: arctan 1 + arctan 2 + arctan 3 = π 📝 bit.ly/2Uw6QhG #math #science #iteachmath #mtbos #visualization #elearning #calculus

Happy 2022nd birthday Earth 🌍

medium.com/age-of-awarene… 🤣

Is there an inverse relationship between how knowledgeable and analytical someone thinks they are and how knowledgeable and analytical they objectively are? Serious question, can't find any good research on this.

@madsreda 100% but orange also acceptable for social studies

Ramanujan discovered the following identity in the beginning of the 20th century

The Von Neumann Randomness Extractor: How do you construct an unbiased coin from a biased one?

@RachelFruin @RobPorterNCHS Twins

@strakamath @RobPorterNCHS Looks like mine, but cleaner!

@strakamath @RobPorterNCHS How would you solve this problem?

@RachelFruin @RobPorterNCHS That's what I have exactly, sorry used \ for latex not division!

@strakamath @RobPorterNCHS I was thinking c by c(sqrt{2}) which is the same depending on which side you label as c. Thanks for your response!

Here's an interesting integral involving the Golden ratio ϕ

Result by Bernoulli, 1697.