Monthly Archives: March 2017

Command Index to Statistical Rethinking

Posted on March 21, 2017 by jrh794

I am having a great time working through Richard McElreath’s text, Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan.  The focus is on building, testing, interpreting, and improving  statistical models.  It is absolutely empowering and I have begun to … Continue reading →

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FOIL is Verboten

Posted on March 14, 2017 by jrh794

My students and I have a habit of referring to the act of multiplying two binomial forms as FOILing, recalling the acronym FOIL (First, Outer, Inner, Last) for remembering the process.  My excuse for using the term  is that they use … Continue reading →

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Here’s What You Don’t Get to Do

Posted on March 13, 2017 by jrh794

I started last Monday’s Precalculus II class with this little speech(edited). “Here’s what you don’t get to do.  When you have children, you don’t get to say, “I was bad at math.”  Because you are good at math.  You could … Continue reading →

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