Just What You Have All Been Waiting For! Common Core Information Night with Mrs. PF!

I receive e-mails, messages, and tweets pretty regularly regarding the Common Core math curriculum. Folks feel pretty passionate about it and I really love that! How fortunate are our kids that we are involved in advocating for their education?

On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 from 6-7 PM I'll be hosting a Common Core Information Night here at Brassfield. We are pleased to announce that childcare will be provided by A.E. Finley YMCA, so you don't even have to get a babysitter. Make it a date night! (How much more romantic can you get than this? I mean, REALLY). 

I am asking that participants let me know that they are coming so that I can be sure to have seating available and enough space to make you all comfortable. I'll be able to gather this information via a quick and easy survey I'd like you to fill out so that I have a little background on your relationship with mathematics and with the Common Core curriculum. Please take a few moments to visit http://www.socrative.com/ and log in as a student to room e0f9bb19. Note that the 0 is a ZERO, not the letter "o."

If more than one member of your household plans to come, please have each individual complete the survey. Thanks!

Waxing Philosophical on a Sunday Morning: Probability of Opportunity

Today's inspiring mathematical thought, brought to you by Dr. Steven Strogatz, Cornell University

"The mathematical theory, 'Littlewood's Law,' said if you break your day into two second chunks, in a month's time you will have experienced about a million of them- or a million opportunities for something wild to happen. Most people think a one-in-a-million chance is unlikely. But this principle suggests that with enough chances, crazy coincidences are likely to occur."