St. Nicholas On Christmas morning, when I was a boy, if my memory is accurate, my three brothers and I would wait for permission to burst from our rooms and rush to the Christmas tree and rip open our presents all at once. Pretty soon there’d be a mess of gifts (four boys with a […]
My daughter, Katie, comes home from college today so I get to go to the airport to pick her up in half an hour! My children She’s the one on the far right. I can’t wait to see her!! The rest are Larissa, David, Matthew, and Andrew. Merry Christmas to all who will be seeing
In their 1920 book How to Measure, Guy Wilson and Kremer Hoke describe what they call “the newer psychology in arithmetic.” They say (the bold parts are my emphasis): The arithmetic of a generation ago was based upon a belief in formal discipline. The purpose was to develop general powers. While arithmetic is doubtless as
