Category Archives: twitter

GPD vs AAPT

Posted on August 4, 2012 by

This week I went to the summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). It was great to see so many friends (some of whom I hadn’t met face to face before) and it was fun to brainstorm … Continue reading →

Posted in glodal physics department, physics, teaching, twitter | 7 Comments

Online communities

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

I just received an interesting email from someone I’m working with who’s interested in forming a virtual community of elementary school teachers: Hi Andy, I was really intrigued by some of the things you said about establishing a sense of … Continue reading →

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More brute force probability

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

Last night a tweep of mine posted this: How many ways can I rearrange the letters ABCDEFGH so that no letter is in its original position? What a deceptively simple question!— R. Wright (@r_w_wright) September 01, 2011 I thought about … Continue reading →

Posted in fun, math, mathematica, twitter | 14 Comments

Brute force probability

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

Earlier this week, a twitter bud of mine posted the following (WordPress is supposed to embed the tweet on the next line but it’s not working right now – let me know if you know why and I’ll fix it): … Continue reading →

Posted in math, mathematica, twitter | 4 Comments

>Wednesday physics chats

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

>Tonight my twitter physics buds and I tried an Elluminate chat. Here’s the recording of some of it. It was a lot of fun as we talked about standards in physics courses, a database of (re)assessments, Momentum as King, and more. … Continue reading →

Posted in teaching, twitter | 5 Comments