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Weekly Math UpdatesDecember 6, 2006 Contents:
Well, as the most observant of you noticed, last week I didn't send out a weekly update. I actually had a pretty nasty taste of spyware that corrupted my registry and knocked out my ability to boot into windows so I had to do an upgrade (much to my wife's chagrin :)) and I'm finally back up and running. No data was lost though. I lost data on a hard drive crash a few years ago and now I run five hard drives to ensure I never lose anything. Two drives are mirrored and then I had two other local drives that I could back up to and then one external box if there was ever a fire or anything I could grab and run. Yes there are certain things I'm paranoid over....loss of data, communists, and school district administrators. :) So what has happened in the last week? There's been a couple of developments that I don't have enough information on to report to you yet. There's motion on the committee to revise Utah's math standards which is of course the best thing to happen to Utah since the pioneers settled. Then there's some activity to help break up the really big districts into more manageable pieces that will give citizens a greater ability to participate in the system and make them more responsive to parental needs. I would still love to have you take my survey if you didn't. Here's a link: Parent Email Response After sending out the email a couple weeks ago about Mountain Ridge I got two letters. The first:
And from another parent:
Media Articles Charter Enrollments Double by Laura Hancock How to End the Math Wars by Claudia Wallis Non-Math Items of Interest For those of you that missed or never even hear about Glenn Beck's CNN special on radical Islam and the threat Iran poses to Israel, the U.S. and the rest of the world, you simply must watch this free video. It's been uploaded to YouTube which could be removed any time so try to watch it soon.
This will help you understand the real threat the Middle East poses to America. For those of you with daughters, you need to show them this amazing transformation from a girl off the street to how she gets *made up* and photoshoped to appear on a billboard. This is from a campaign by Dove to help girls have better self-esteem and understand that what the media portrays is a false reality. According to Dove's site, 67% of all women age 15-64 avoid normal daily activity because they feel bad about their looks. They are comparing themselves to faked pictures in the media. Please pass this on. The Watchmaker Video Archive: http://www.weaponsofmathdestruction.com Till next week, Oak Norton |
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