Names and carnivals

3rd day of dual language instruction with my new classes, and I don't think I called anybody by the wrong name today!

This week's Carnival of Education is up and running over at The Infamous J's place. J starts things off with a poem about moles. Not the member of the rodent family, but rather the chemistry term for a quantity of matter. Yeah.

But hey, don't let that throw you! I mean, some people are into moles, some people are into Darth Vader and math...

Check out the Carnival and leave some comments!

Professor Vader in London

Thanks to our good friend Carol over at My Bell Ringers, my "Darth Vader Explains the Pythagorean Theorem" YouTube video has been linked by a columnist at the London Times!!

Early yesterday afternoon, the video had 856 hits. . . This evening, it has almost 3,000 hits!! This statistic is pretty awesome, as it blows all of my other videos away, but it does make me want to ask everyone else an important question...

Are you Americans going to let the British internet users beat you that badly??? Citizens of the US, rise up in pride and show your voting power by viewing the vid and forwarding it to all your friends in Cleveland, Tupelo, and Boise!!! :)

If Lord Vader were a math teacher

My last somewhat creative project of summer vacation is finally complete. Inspired by last month's trip to Comic-Con, I decided to smash up my love of all things math and all things Star Wars and create this video -- Darth Vader Explains the Pythagorean Theorem.

The voiceover work is not exactly James Earl Jones quality, but hey, I did my best. If you like it, leave a comment and pass it on; if not, so be it.