https://www.fallinmathlove.com/blog daily 0.75 2021-03-15 https://www.fallinmathlove.com/blog/the-dream monthly 0.5 2021-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1617379142823-58WDZOX13FLR6AEXBHAV/Queen+of+the+snow.jpeg Blog - The Dream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1617377986850-UKBF2QHQRLO3UGUHSGVP/Screen+Shot+2021-03-11+at+5.12.11+PM.png Blog - The Dream https://www.fallinmathlove.com/blog/happy-pi-day monthly 0.5 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1615767640323-RWHNZSCXFEQV7VWG8DWM/Rhubarb+Pie.jpg Blog - Happy Pi Day! I made a delicious cherry pie this morning, with cherries canned from our trees last summer, and my family pod celebrated by eating the entire thing. I did not manage a picture of it before putting it into my belly, but it looked a lot like last year’s rhubarb pie (aka: Queen Of Pies) at the top of the page, only redder and stickier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1615767706933-VGFQDHZ46UHSATFSSHFM/Screen+Shot+2021-03-14+at+8.09.16+PM.png Blog - Happy Pi Day! https://www.fallinmathlove.com/blog/risk monthly 0.5 2021-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1614962907184-WYZJCLR0XAY44LWLAH9Z/icicle+.jpg Blog - Risk https://www.fallinmathlove.com/blog/on-falling-behind monthly 0.5 2021-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1614356740064-4XV2EV32CIM565JF570V/Succulent+Scree.jpg Blog - On Falling Behind A succulent strains for the screen-filtered sunlight from a spot on my home desk, right next to the computer that served as my classroom last Spring. https://www.fallinmathlove.com/blog/love-story monthly 0.5 2021-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1613146327740-K4BMZ0SSNBC4FCMFPMIE/feathercrystal.jpg Blog - Love Story The geometric fractals of these crystals branch into fans, inches long. Strong mathematical resonance between the ice on the reeds and the feathers on the song birds, who watch me freeze my fingers from their perches in the marsh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1613146414499-KMCHH4XB0QHZD3CVYACH/10+fingers.jpg Blog - Love Story There is diversity in digit numbers within our species. I know a precious a little boy who was born with 12 and a colleague who lost one-and-a-half to a lawnmower for a new total now of 8.5, but the commonest configuration is 10. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1613146491797-8OE2WG3RF5U04FDM2RFY/Base+10+breakdown+253.jpg Blog - Love Story Note that I use roman-numeral-influenced symbols as shorthand, c for hundreds place, x for tens place, and a dot for ones place. 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Thermodynamics connects calculus to physical states of matter and their transitions. The math tells a story. Once upon a time, a winter day turned to colder night. As the temperature plummeted, it squeezed water from the air like a sponge. But it was cold enough, dry enough, that the water skipped its wet stage entirely. Each molecule found a nucleation sight, its new home as an ice crystal. Together, one after the other, they built this frost in two stages — perhaps even two days. Big, clear crystals, small, white feathers, all dependent on temp, pressure, time, and the landscape beneath them. I love this image especially well for the springtail photobomb. 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Written by Sam Smith. Illustrated by Jenny Addison, Michael Hill, Carly Davies, and Joanne Kirkby. Edited by Sam Taplin. 2016. 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Transform your relationship with math and find joy and lightness in learning. https://www.fallinmathlove.com/fun daily 0.75 2020-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1604089734371-KQN73WV15NW1SR2P6NKE/pea+tendril.jpg Fun - Enrichment Coming soon! Tune in here for some fun problems and learn to see the world differently through the power of numbers. https://www.fallinmathlove.com/tlc daily 0.75 2020-12-04 https://www.fallinmathlove.com/who daily 0.75 2020-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4a635c063c1828e566800e/1607091179202-QW5H8MZF4L0P58VR2LMX/Kate+Fells.jpg Who - Hi! I’m Kate Carson. I’ve been teaching since I was in grade school myself, leaning over the desk to help friends learn fractions. I have taught in public schools and independent schools and tutored extensively in private homes and at my own kitchen table. I have worked as a scientist and engineer in industry, applying all the calculus I teach (yes! some of us really do use calculus regularly in adulthood!) but always make my way back to my students. I specialize in teenagers (14-18) from algebra to calculus, chemistry and physics. My favorite teaching tool is an old-fashioned chalk board. Beyond the classroom, I am mom to two spunky, living daughters, 7 and 11. (Currently homeschooling. Thanks, Covid.) Wife to an outdoorsy Kiwi, grief-support leader to an online babyloss community, storytelling activist for women’s rights, practitioner of mindfulness and yoga, and a lover of nature. https://www.fallinmathlove.com/book-a-class daily 0.75 2020-10-30 https://www.fallinmathlove.com/book daily 0.75 2020-12-04