There's a more subtle problem too. Very often people chosen as dedicated math teachers (and chemistry teachers, in my experience) find the introductory levels of their subject almost instinctive. They

Please follow me as well. I'm doing a mnemonic series on memorizing the Log10(whole numbers).

True enough! At one point I considered doing logs of fractions so that I could extend the Log of History to years B.C.(E), but it gets increasingly difficult to find significant events known to have happened

A local fellow I know had a math teacher who was paying attention. The math teacher noticed that this guy had an easy time with multiplication tables and so he made him memorize them up to 50x50! I wish

Underduck! Reminds me... I got tired of "underdogs" one day and told my daughter "Now it's time for an under-cow!....Moo, moo, moo!" Then she wanted an under-cat, and under-pig, an

I remember as a teenager reading that some ancient Greek philosopher had said that "money" had to be relatively rare in order to work as money. If everyone had plenty of it (such as dirt) no

I guess I'm not sure what you mean by laziness, then. Maybe Laziness with a capital "L" is showing complete disinterest in everything that does not immediately and obviously produce value to

I guess I can't agree that people are largely lazy. We just have so much imagination, we can think of a lot of different things to do with the time we have! We have to make choices, and those will be based