Bill Wood

Now slip an innocent 1+ in front of the x^2 in the denominator.

I just finished grading exams. My students will be very grateful for this.

Assignment I might try next semester: have ChatGPT do one of my old exams and have the students grade it. #teachmath #mathsky

That origami course sounds quite mathy indeed. Author couldn't be bothered to learn what any of those words mean.

TIL the conversion ratio for miles to kilometers is very close to the golden ratio so you can estimate with the Fibonacci sequence: 5mi = 8km, 8mi=13km, etc

Another failed math pangram, although I’ll concede this one for being proper.

I am at an age where “I’m exhausted because I drank too much last night” means I drank a root beer after 7pm and had to get up three times to pee.

Yep. I teach 9 hours a week, therefore I work 9 hours a week. It's annoying with family, but a real problem that politicians think this too.

Spelling bee rejects the word CODOMAIN

Oh, come on!

Spelling Bee just doesn’t like math.

He's one of those actors who has several "definitive" roles depending on who you talk to -- My Dinner With Andre, Princess Bride, Star Trek DS9, Young Sheldon, and for my kids, Stinky and Dirty.

Boring answer, but Cayley’s Theorem. It was a revelation to me as a student that all groups live in symmetric groups.

Not great to save the porn years for last.

My hint would be: How much grading do you think I want to do?

ln 7x is a good one to wake them up a little.

Handy example I dumb-lucked into today as I had to conjure a vector angle problem on the fly: (1,2) and (3,1) make at a 45-degree angle.

This week gave me an idea for a stats problem: determine whether “missing class for a funeral” and “there is an exam in class” are independent events. I have some data they can use.

I’m pretty sure I have this in my basement somewhere

I often wonder how much good we could do for the world if we just... didn't mow our damn lawns. Or even just mowed them much less often. Such a waste of gas and time.

How do you know he's not Odo?

I never recovered from our utter failure to come together during COVID.

IHOP building at the end of a rainbow.

What’s is happening at this IHOP?

Has anyone had any disgruntled students from their past stir up trouble lately?

I got one from almost a decade ago and I wonder if it's because it's open season on professors right now and he was disappointed that I have no political posts on my socials to report. #teachmath

I feel that. And I’m hearing a lot more of this lately. I think something has changed.

Annoyingly, I think I’d be more popular if I did that.

Pizza pie with 5 cheese slices and 3 with different toppings.

A pie chart illustrating the percentages of the types of pizza left over from dinner.

I’m sort of curious if any disgruntled former students are hunting my socials seeking a revenge opportunity.

My alma mater. I can’t believe what has happened to that place.

One of a very small number of games I think I should still add to me my solo collection

My current favorite show just triggered my pet peeve: 3.141459... is not some secret code to the universe. If you must reference pi when you make alien contact, use the continued fraction expansion in case they don't have 10 fingers.