[Cross-posted from Richmond Hill High School Alumni Association blog found here.]
What follows is a story I have told only to a few of my closest friends (and probably not in its entirety), because of its complexity, personal nature, and my own confusion. It’s taken me a long time to formulate this into a coherent message [...]
CUPE3903, “representing” graduate students, part-time faculty, and teaching assistants at York University and their three-month long strike charade is about to come to an end. After a government appointed negotiator finally told us what we all knew already – that the two sides are irreconcilable – Premier McGuinty finally decided to start the motions of [...]
I went to the 2008 RHHS Commencement a couple nights ago, with Alex. They had it at the Sheraton ballroom over at Highway 7 and Leslie. Evidently, RHHS has gone big since the last time I was there, and the school has too many people to do a proper commencement in the gymnasium/cafetorium now. The [...]
An ode to our successful Praxis III project (thanks group! it was a great ride!)…
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Some time in 2005, the Ministry of Education of Ontario decided they would evaluate the mathematics portion of Ontario’s secondary school curriculum. Their first study led them to announce that they would remove the calculus course from the curriculum, replacing “Advanced Functions and Introductory Calculus” to “Advanced Functions”, along with some slight adjustments to both [...]
(Ed note: This post receives a lot of Google hits. For those stumbling upon this post, I also recommend this one, which is more in-depth and updated.)
Yesterday, amidst a rather empty convocation hall, I attended the Engineering Science overture lecture for the 2007 Winter Term, themed “Systems and States”. Giving the lecture was one Professor [...]
So it appears, after more than two years of uptime, that the various teachers of RHHS have caught on to this site.
What I write here will pertain to the teachers for which I have the utmost respect for, but apparently do not understand the idea that embodies “Freedom of Information”, and also to the students [...]
(Some quick comments: At the time of the writing, the Ontario Ministry of Education has deferred the decision to change the curriculum until 2007, but the facts remain and still hold true.)
For those who are unfamiliar with Calculus, it is a small strand of mathematics that essentially studies the rates of change of variables, but [...]