Concrete Ideas

Oliver Wendell Holmes:

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas.

Seneca:

The best ideas are common property.

Lauren Bacall:

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Archimedes:

Eureka!

Grace Hopper:

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

 Brain Game HOWTOs 

Links to sites that provide useful, free tutorials on playing the seven most popular games of mental skill in the Western world.

Howard Aiken:

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

George Brandes:

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

Yes, well then.

This site is small; it will grow (slowly).

Here's what there is so far:

K-12 Math Curriculum — Where's the Probability Theory?

The ability to evaluate probabilistic claims thrown at us is a life skill that needs to be taught starting in primary school. Two probability problems are analyzed to bring out some of the issues.

K-12 Math Curriculum — Where's the Statistics?

Students need to learn to evaluate the statistical claims they will encounter in real life.  A concrete example illustrates the kind of analysis people should be able to carry out.

 

 

Last updated March 31, 2011