Kudos to Sarah Baird

The MathBabbler extends a "Kudos" to Sarah Baird for being named the 2009 Arizona Teacher of the Year. The Arizona Republic reported that Baird is a "math coach" at Kyrene de las Lomas and Kyrene del Melino in Ahwatukee Foothills. Baird teaches math to K-5 students. The Republic quoted Baird saying the following.

"I am on a mission to change the feeling of math from the
negative. We love it! It's fun! And kids, when I walk down
the hall, will yell, 'I love math!'" -- Sarah Baird

The Tucson Citizen quoted Phyllis Fassio, Baird's former math teacher at Flowing Wells High School in Tucson, saying the following about Baird.

"They call her 'the math girl' and they have so much fun with her
they don't even know they're learning math." -- Phyllis Fassio

Again, Kudos to Sarah Baird!

Neil Young and WWW and Math

Today, 12 November 2008, Neil Young turns 63 years young, while Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web hits 18.

MathBABs.us::Neil Young at 63 and WWW at 18

Logarithm on "King of the Hill"

MathBabbler turned on King of the Hill on Sunday, 9 November 2008, and he saw Kahn Souphanousinphone, Sr. ask three kids the following: What is log base-3 of 9? The first answer given was 27, but the second answer was 2.