Carl

@mathowitz.bsky.social

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Former HS Math teacher looking for my next role. I write about math, education, music, food, parenting, travel, tinkering... all with a side of snarkiness, sarcasm and self-deprecation.

Old Man Trump Words by Woody Guthrie Adapted by Ryan Harvey, Music by Ryan Harvey Contact Publisher - Woody Guthrie Publications/BMG Chrysalis I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts When he drawed that color line Here at his Beach Haven family project Beach Haven ain't my home! No, I just can't pay this rent! My money's down the drain, And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower Where no black folks come to roam, No, no, Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain't my home! I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both Welcoming you here to Beach Haven To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place To have your kids raised up in. Beach Haven ain't my home! No, I just can't pay this rent! My money's down the drain, And my soul is badly bent! Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower Where no black folks come to roam, No, no, Old Man Trump! Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
Facebook memory from 8 years ago "Happy 4th of July all... and while you're out celebrating America, please remember the founding principals of our nation and be kind to each other. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Here are some topics that fit that sweet spot well — accessible entry point, genuine depth, mostly off the standard curriculum: Here are some topics that fit that sweet spot well — accessible entry point, genuine depth, mostly off the standard curriculum: Combinatorics & Counting • Pigeonhole principle — instantly surprising results from dead-simple logic ("in any group of 13 people, two share a birth month") • Catalan numbers — counting bracket arrangements, triangulations, paths; patterns emerge fast • Pascal's triangle secrets — way deeper than it looks (Sierpinski, hockey stick identity, etc.) Geometry & Topology • Knot theory — when are two knots the same? Accessible invariants (tricolorability) need no calculus • Euler characteristic — V − E + F = 2; works on surprising shapes, leads to topology naturally • Origami mathematics — Huzita-Haga axioms, what's constructible, angle trisection • Tesselations & Penrose tilings — especially aperiodic tilings, which are genuinely weird Number Theory • Modular arithmetic / clock math — RSA encryption is in reach within a few sessions • Continued fractions — beautiful patterns, best rational approximations, golden ratio connections • p-adic numbers — a wild alternative metric on the rationals; "closer" means "more divisible" Logic & Foundations • Gödel's incompleteness (informal) — the liar's paradox made rigorous; shakes foundations • Surreal numbers — Conway's construction of numbers from games; -1/2 of a Go position • Computability / halting problem — what can't computers solve, and provably so? Probability & Games • Martingales / gambler's ruin — elegant random walk results with real intuition • Combinatorial game theory — Nim, Sprouts, Hackenbush; pure strategy with algebraic structure • Paradoxes — Bertrand, St. Petersburg, Simpson's — each breaks a different intuition
Facebook memory- on this day 6 years ago "My 4yr old has more empathy and coping skills than 'my' president."
Spindrift case "This 30pack is made with real squeezed fruit of 2.5 lemons 2.25 limes 8.25 strawberries 11 cherries"
Job posting "aerospace instructor | no aerospace background required."