Episode 25: Monica Geist Ph.D. – Math with a Laugh

In this episode, Alex and Monica talk about…

• Monica’s backstory growing up in Boulder
• How much of life is predicated on written mathematical proofs
• COVID-19 has changed the experience for students and teachers
• Zoom has changed the game for interactive teaching online
• The immediate future of teaching during the pandemic
• People are unique and everyone learns in different ways
• We will never go back to how we did things before
• Monica’s proclivity toward teaching has impacted Alex’s life
• Sometimes Alex uses words that he doesn’t understand
• Alex and Monica throw around some old stories
• Just keep breathing when you face math problems in life

 

Links to resources:

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Difficult Story Problems:

Q: Why was the mathematician late to work?

A: He took the rhombus.

 

Q: What did the mathematician say when she lost her protractor?

A: Where’s my protractor?

 

Q: Why was the fraction apprehensive about marrying the decimal?

A: Because he would have to convert.

 

Q: Why do plants hate math?

A: It gives them square roots.

 

Q: Why was the math book depressed?

A: It had a lot of problems.

Monica Geist Ph.D.: Monica.Geist@frontrange.edu

Asynchronous Definition:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asynchronous

Pythagorean Theorem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem

Law of Cosines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_cosines

Quadratic Equation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation

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