math and climbing
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In November, my article on math anxiety and climbing came out in the magazine Math Horizons. It's about how I used what I know about teaching math to talk myself into climbing a wall. My first climbing partner, Megan, was on the magazine cover:
http://www.maa.org/mathhorizons/nov11.jpg
I've posted a proof of the article on my professional website:
http://people.uwec.edu/whitchua/notes/mathandgymclass-mathhorizons.pdf
http://www.maa.org/mathhorizons/nov11.jpg
I've posted a proof of the article on my professional website:
http://people.uwec.edu/whitchua/notes/mathandgymclass-mathhorizons.pdf
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Date: 2011-12-19 04:55 pm (UTC)This idea is relevant to my interests. Commensurate with the limitations one imposes on oneself by focusing on judgement, failure & insecurity, there are the limitations imposed by others - teachers, coaches, senior participants, who undermine or outright prevent participation--and thus growth-- by people who don't come to their first experiences already successful.
I don't climb (yet?), but I did take up yoga for a social "sport" (to complement my solitary running & cycling & weight training) where everyone is permitted an encouraged to engage at their own level without competition or judgment. the more I hear about climbing, the more it appeals.
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Date: 2011-12-24 05:40 pm (UTC)Be careful, we proselytize. *g*
If you've got any questions or there's anything you're curious/worried about, you'd be very welcome to ask here.
And the experiences: first time tag might be of interest.
I should add that climbing meshes with yoga very, very well; a lot of climbers do yoga.
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-17 04:56 pm (UTC)My little sister is doing a Ph.D. in counseling right now, actually-- we talk about this stuff a fair amount.
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Date: 2011-12-20 04:02 pm (UTC)Reading your article made me think about how harshly I was judging myself at maths. And how I've written off this whole discipline - it's one of the few things that when people say that's what they study, I normally don't ask for more details. So, yeah, awesome, thank you.
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Date: 2011-12-20 06:08 pm (UTC)I wonder if you would actually like some of the crazy philosophical math-major math more than the high school topics? Things about logic and infinity and extra dimensions and the axiom of choice?
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Date: 2011-12-21 11:53 am (UTC)Basically I find maths v v hard to conceptualise. But next time I talk to a mathy friend, I'm going to ask them about maths. Yay!
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Date: 2011-12-21 02:35 pm (UTC)Yay!
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Date: 2012-01-03 08:19 am (UTC)(2+2 is the pattern where two apples and two more apples is "the same" as two cars and two more cars.)
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Date: 2012-01-03 10:03 am (UTC)BASICALLY, I am missing the maths part of my brain.