Photos And Fun

Happy little blog full of photos and fun.

[teemcd]

Fillmore and Piru

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Seniors

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Pumpernickel Pictures Headshots

[road2nf]

A chance encounter with @wilwheaton leads @teemcd down a winding road to Nerdfighteria with stops at @matthewgaydos’s Fort Awesome and @michaelaranda’s Arandavision.

[matthewgaydos]

See you guys at NerdCon: Nerdfighteria this weekend!

[teemcd]

Check and check!

[pr1nceshawn]

Movie Scenes Inserted Into Real Life by François Dourlen.

[teemcd]

Nerdcon: Nerdfighteria

[chronicpain09]

LOOK AT THIS OTTER

[teemcd]

When you take responsible steps to take a nap and a Girl Scout kills your nap time. 😕oh well.

[thought-cafe]

As a Crash Course Patreon supporter, you could be getting these adorable Sabrina & Catbot paperdolls this month - from Crash Course Kids! 🤖+ 🐱

[teemcd]

Must own!!

[the-errant-mycorrhizae]

First flower ever grown in space bloomed today!

[goose-dad]

Yay!

[just-shower-thoughts]

You never really become an adult, you just get really good at pretending

[bob-belcher]

[teemcd]

This looks like my dog!

[stay-yourself-0]

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[teemcd]

Blissful

[kalany]

Look, can we quit it with the conflation of arithmetic and higher mathematics?

I have dyscalculia. My teachers gave up on teaching me to perform basic arithmetic in tenth grade. I struggle with anything below trigonometry, and even trig is hard for me.

I have a bachelor’s in pure math and a master’s in statistics. Calculus? I can do that. Abstract algebra? I’m there. Topology and probability theory? Awesome. (Don’t ask me to do combinatorics, though. Don’t know why, but my brain nopes out on that one.)

I am SICK AND TIRED of reassuring kids I teach who come into our intro stats or calc courses going “I’m bad at math” and expecting to fail. A good three quarters of the time I probe further and discover they failed or nearly failed algebra because they struggle with arithmetic, and now they’re convinced they’re going to fail anything that even looks like it might possibly be adjacent to math.

WE HAVE CALCULATORS NOW, PEOPLE. Inability to do arithmetic is not even close to the end of your mathematics career. So can we please quit discouraging kids now?

[teemcd]

Which is why I allow my young students to use a multiplication table during tests. It's not a test of multiplication facts. Would math fluency help? Sure, but it doesn't work for all of us. I try so hard to make my students love math as much as I hated it. Which is a lot.

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If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree.

Sherihan Gamal (via cinderlea)