#the-irrationals

[alexyar]

the-irrationals replied to your post “hi there, on this lovely saturday night i need y’all to do your...”

would they use it though? like if they knew if was for them I feel like they wouldn’t, being cats and all

my kitty actually likes sleeping in cat beds! boy too, but it’s not often that she lets him

[eelfoe]

the-irrationals replied to your photo “Shelf cats”

how are your plants floating???

i drilled tiny holes in the pots and used fishing line to attach them to the shelves!

[twocubes]

the-irrationals replied to your post “We're starting Limits in our Calculus class today (I am a high school...”

you start talking about x=0 but then talk about the limit as x goes to 1... should those all be 0's?

whoops

thank you, corrected...

[alexyar]

the-irrationals replied to your post “the-irrationals replied to your post: I am PISSED...”

Wait a minute, you cooked up this whole “Pennsylvania” thing just so you could complain about it, didn’t you!

...yes

[alexyar]

the-irrationals replied to your post:

Don’t get me wrong, I LIKE flipped classroom ideas...

What about small-enrollment?

well small number of people in the classroom is definitely a necessary condition for the flipped classroom to even approach working

now, calculus and other foundation courses are never going to be small enrollment courses, even when the number of people in a particular section is small. Whenever you have 900 people taking the same foundational course (a course that has 17 other courses built on it), there is a need for some standardization, and the more standardization, the less there is opportunity for experimenting with methods. A lot of big colleges lean towards “as much standardization as possible”, which is bad for both students and teachers, because oftentimes the standards developed contradict what would be good teaching practices. But there has to be some insurance that students will learn at least this much material by the end of the class, because they literally cannot progress towards their major if they don’t. Like, if we spend 2 months on a definition of a scheme in my graduate algebraic geometry class because it takes us unexpectedly long time to get through problems -- that’s fine, and we will come out of it really really understanding the definition of a scheme, if not much else. But this cannot happen in a calc 1 course, because there’s a departmental final exam, there is calc 2, there is calculus-based physics etc etc.

[alexyar]

wait I need to know if "very me" means you're the one shitting on mozart or you're the one trying to defend mozart?

well neither, i don’t understand shit about music, but arguing about fine art as if it was pizza toppings is #very me

[alexyar]

me visiting a new town: ok so tell me where the cats are

[alexyar]

@the-irrationals replied to your post: @anonymousclone replied to your photo “I am a...

do we know your cat’s name?

her name's Cat