Things that make my job easier...

[probably_lost]

I'm teaching a summer section of Mathematical Problem Solving. Sometimes, I struggle to put a lesson plan together and to find real-world stories and examples to relate to the material

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[naomikritzer]

Oooooooooooooh, I wish more newspaper reporters had taken your class.

I got the "correlation <> causation" lecture from my statistician father when I was, I don't know, eleven? Unlike a lot of things my parents said, that one really did sink in.

[cnoocy]

It's always neat when you get material like that. It's like a sign that you're doing the right thing.

[tahnan]

As a reader of Language Log, I fear I've gotten jaded about bad science reporting, especially misrepresentation of scientific studies.

I wonder, with respect to Boys learn they should be relentless in pursuit of women, and girls learn to view themselves as sex objects, how they quantified what makes a song's message "sexually degrading". I feel like I could come up with any number of songs from, say, the 60s and 70s that fit that description. (Including a verse of Schoolhouse Rock's "Interjections".)