Shortest Survey Ever*
I’m doing some guerrilla math-ed research for an upcoming paper blog post. Mostly because no research institution will have me (I smell like corn and bacon). So, without further ado:
Be honest, it’s anonymous, and you’re not in trouble if you answer “No.” You are if you answer “Yes.” Kidding. Sort of. Nerd.
I’m looking to collect the largest N that I can, so feel free to spam this along with the amazing new finding — that they don’t want you to know! — that you can unlock your car with your remote key and two cell phones! (In other news: Unicorns are real, they’ve just always been aquatic!)
* I am aware that is not actually the shortest survey ever. Also, because of the nature of this blog’s readership, I feel like I’m going to get answers skewed toward “Yes,” so please send this link to your friends and family outside of education. Pets are legit, too.
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I /used/ to dislike “math for math’s sake”. Some teacher in my past really turned me off of math…sometime around the “memorize the times tables” or “no you can’t learn algebra yet, you’re only in second grade” era of my life. So I loved science, and begrudgingly used math as a tool to do science.
That lasted until /graduate school/. Thanks, whoever you were, for setting the tone for a decade and a half of my math life.
Sometime around grad school, I began to explore some of the math I was using (and, no surprise, became much better at it). And it led to other topics in math. And those led to other topics. Did you know that math is not just a linear sequence from counting through multiplication through algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and differential equations? There’s number theory, and group theory, and combinatorics, and statistics, and chaos theory, and fractal geometry, and topology, and probatility theory…my GOD, it is such a diverse and beautiful world!
And sometime late in grad school, I ran across a copy of Lockhart’s Lament, and I wept quietly for the injured and repressed mathematician inside me that just needed a little love. And number theory.
And now I /love/ math.
37 replies on my blog. 35 yes, 2 no.
I can see percents here, but not how many responded.
A friend put the poll on facebook, where she has lots of followers, but no one replied. (I asked 2 people to put it on their blogs.)
I think this poll needs to go on a widely read blog, that doesn’t cater to math-science folks, so we can see the differences. Hmm…
Thanks, Sue! I’m sending it out further and further. It’s going to take a while, but I’m going to get more than a million N
97 replies on my blog for this poll. 83.5% yes. Interesting that our results match up so well.
Math is a language I love to speak and I think in that mode a lot of the time!
I don’t think a peer-reviewed journal would have Bill O’Reilly either. Wait – has Rupert Murdoch purchased a climate journal yet?
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Hello! I’m a new teacher that just finished up my first year. I stumbled across your blog from ActiveGrade and I am SO excited to see how you’re thinking about standards based grading and teaching through inquiry.
I want to completely turn around the way I teach 5th grade science so that it is standards based, rigorous, and the students are creating the knowledge, not passively receiving it. However, it’s difficult because there’s no one else in my professional circle that’s thinking like this or is an expert at this.
When it comes to standards based grading, where do I begin to figure out best practices for making standards for fifth grade general science? Is there any blogger that I should be following? Any potential mentor I can contact?
Thank you so much!
Love me some Geometry and Trig!
What kind of math? I DO like basic math (addition, subtraction), but not anything beyond that. So I answered “NO”. Also, not a regular reader – got this poll as a spam from my sister. :)
Don’t worry. I’m here to vote no.
I think we should do separate polls for different blog audiences. (Same poll, separate instances of it.) I’ve asked a homeschooler friend to do that.
Shawn, Check out Tiff’s poll results, here.
Classic Bill O’Reilly poll.
Are you saying you watch Bill O’Reilly? I think you guys can see where I’m going with this.