mathmtcs

I was a public school teacher in New York City for over 16 years. Then I taught mathematics at an international school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Now I'm mostly retired but still teach a few class each year at Purchase College. This blog is intended as a spot for me to record some of my observations.

Saturday, February 13, 2021

Learning German (Deutsch Lernen)

In my imagination, one benefit of my move to Germany was the possibility of becoming a learner again. Not the learning from idle curiosity,...

Monday, November 9, 2020

Immigration Office

I went for my interview with the Immigration Officials. Several people at work assured me it is no big deal, and mostly a formality, but per...

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Norway 2019

Visited Norway again this summer. This time we decided to rent a car and drive the various places we wanted to go, rather than try to deal w...

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Travelling around Frankfurt

Germany offers drivers license reciprocity with many jurisdictions, meaning that if you hold a valid drivers license it is fairly simple to...

Friday, June 26, 2020

Symbolic Hangings

In the early 2000s I worked for a software company in Stamford CT. At the time I was in Tech Support, and all of us were in a sort of cubic...

Monday, July 1, 2019

Uses for Garden Bamboo

As people who grow bamboo know, it is a prolific plant. Years ago, I planted some Bissett bamboo ( Phyllostachys bissetii ) and what I belie...

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Snarky email that will never be sent

Incoming message: My [offspring] is interested in taking your summer Calculus I course at [public institution] to transfer the credit to th...

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