Archive for 2009

Gratuitous Images

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Polish tea bags and Walker Evans

Number questions

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Just a PDF with 40 four function questions with numerical answers. You can never have enough examples. This was used as a class exercise as individual work, and I had useful conversations with individual students about concrete examples. Issues around columns, place notation &c as usual.

A little bit of subtraction, some short and long multiplication [...]

Smedley Butler

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

“I believe in adequate defence at the coastline and nothing else.”

War Is Just a Racket. Composed by Kyle Gann; performed by Sarah Cahill. The soldier speaks. Good luck chaps.

Schlingen-Blängen

Friday, September 11th, 2009

“As we entered Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, a perfect fifth was already ringing on the organ. Little by little Charlemagne added notes, held down with little wooden splints, and pulled out additional organ stops to thicken the roar of sound. Finally he plunged onto the keyboard with both forearms, and, with overtones at maximum [...]

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Monday, September 7th, 2009

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