Jessie Oehrlein ⛸️🥌

#MathsToday: Still some work to do with percentiles in Applied Stats. Not sure the intro to standard deviation today landed, but mean & median vs shape and probability distribution tables both seemed to!

#MathsToday: Had some folks missing in Principles of Data Analysis and decided to expand one activity and push back another one based on the group I had. Some good conversations about balancing succinctness, clarity, and thoroughness of analysis. (Though I need to work a little on balancing voices.)

#MathsToday Still really working on figuring out the dynamics of this group of Stat Analysis students. But some good conversations about data wrangling and evidence in experiments today.

We made it through the women’s and men’s shorts with NO FALLS! #MilanoCortina2026

Yuma's short might be my favorite program this year (at least among the men). So glad this was excellent. ⛸️

#MathsToday Bifurcation day in Math of Climate! Lots of playing around with systems, getting more confident with stability, figuring out things.

No falls in the whole woman team short program. ❤️

Ioulia 💗⛸️

Really solid last couple of ends from Thiesse/Dropkin 🥌 and almost pairs time! ⛸️

Yoshida/Morita are such delights ⛸️

why did the curling feed briefly start showing the figure skating? I promise, Peacock, I have two screens going 😂

Steal of one for Brett and Joc! 🥌 and Peacock being annoying and wrong

The tech box just doesn't say the element, does it 🙃⛸️

So it's not as imminent as the "no tenure going forward at regionals and two year colleges" but... don't love the trend.

It's a thing several states have allowed (including MA, where I am now): basically cutting down bachelor's degrees in some fields by 25%, really focusing on job relevance.

The OK executive order asks for a feasibility study on it which would have to be taken into account in evaluating programs.

#MathsToday
Not a lot of energy in PoDA for talking about data visualization choices and meaning, but making a data dictionary for a dataset about themselves that they'd created on Day 1 went well!

In Applied Stats, not sure that splitting introducing diff sampling methods across days worked.

but on the tenure bit: so many of these schools ALREADY do annual performance reviews, but that's not the point

The tenure thing is getting most of the attention on here, but the 90 credit bachelor's degrees aren't great either!

days since Oklahoma higher ed made national news: back to 0 again

would love to say I have some direction or coherent thoughts from there but. no. just some yearning to be able to do this better.

Tormented by an Urn Teaching, learning, love and fear; the aesthetic sensibility of math

And it has me thinking again about this year and a half old post by @economeager.bsky.social. Especially the line "We should teach them the best things," which has felt like a rearranging of my brain in a way I can't quite handle or live up to ever since.
rottenandgood.substack.com/p/tormented-...

The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ...

A weird thing about me is that I read A Well-Trained Mind at age 12 despite having no experience with classical education.

Anyway, I read this a few days ago and keep thinking about it.
thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

A whiteboard with a problem about diffy boxes in the center, lots of student work to either side.

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The problems of the week I post in the dept vary a lot in how much attention they get, but this week's *really* caught a couple students. Diffy boxes/ Ducci sequences are great.

#MathsToday Started doing some data visualization with ggplot and exploring data dictionaries in PoDA. Could have used more structure on both of those, I think.

Pretty smooth intro to histogram descriptions in Applied Stats! Starting with something polygraph/guess who style is always solid there.

#MathsToday Stat Analysis students settled into R pretty well today! For Applied Stats, intro to histograms went well, but it seems like population parameter vs sample statistics will take a bit to solidify.

all we do affects, for good or ill, all other lives

My dad took a 6-4 load for many years (to be better able to umpire in the spring), and even that idea now feels awful to me.

I hope this team stays together another quad. They're *so* close.

again: KERRI

Kerri Einarson raises her own team's stone to score a point to force an extra end at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts