Friday, September 4, 2009

What is Math? What is Physics?

Math and physics mean different things to different people because we all have different experiences. What is it for you? Create a blog post that addresses the following questions:

What does it mean to do math? What does math look like? Where do you find math? Who uses it?

What is physics? Are we doing physics? Where can you find it? Who uses it?

This post should be at least two paragraphs and include a picture. This picture should be an example of how you see or view math and/or physics.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

30 Things You Didn't Know About Me

1. I dance hula.
2. I can speak Japanese.
3. I don't have a car.
4. I don't own a TV.
5. My favorite colors are green and brown.
6. I have a cat named Ruby. I think she's really a monkey disguised as a cat.
7. I love to knit and quilt.
8. I love reading Science Fiction.
9. I was born in the same hospital and went to the same high school as President Obama.
10. I played soccer in college (as a goalkeeper!).
11. I grew up catching my own rain water in a huge water tank in my yard.
12. I also grew up harvesting my own apple bananas.
13. My favorite vegetables are kabocha and renkon.
14. I love making ceramics.
15. I have never been out of the country.
16. I broke my collarbone twice playing football.
17. I am a thespian.
18. I love origami.
19. The first time I traveled East of CA was two years ago.
20. I eat a lot of rice.
21. I have seen the green flash twice.
22. My favorite impressionist artist is Degas.
23. I have slept through three earthquakes.
24. I have only seen snow twice.
25. I have caught, prepared, and eaten an octopus.
26. I visited four states outside of CA this summer.
27. I love the ocean (despite how cold it is on the mainland).
28. I love playing board games (chess, checkers, go, scrabble, othello).
29. I started doing yoga this summer.
30. My cousin is a ballerina.