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HomeschoolMath.net: Calculate square root without a calculator

Just like Pete Stickney taught me.

Internet Archive: Academic Film Archive of North America

Mathematics, astronomy, sociology, history, biology, poetry, current affairs -- educational short films from the '50s, '60s, and '70s.

GoGeometry: Incenter, Circumcenter, Centroid, Orthocenter: Journey to the Center of a Triangle.

A 1977 instructional film illustrating how the different centers of a triangle are constructed.

All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed - Esther Entin - Life - The Atlantic

"An article in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Play details not only how much children's play time has declined, but how this lack of play affects emotional development, leading to the rise of anxiety, depression, and problems of attention and self control.

"'Since about 1955 ... children's free play has been continually declining, at least partly because adults have exerted ever-increasing control over children's activities,' says the author Peter Gray, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology (emeritus) at Boston College. Gray defines 'free play' as play a child undertakes him- or her-self and which is self-directed and an end in itself, rather than part of some organized activity.

"Gray describes this kind of unstructured, freely-chosen play as a testing ground for life. It provides critical life experiences without which young children cannot develop into confident and competent adults. Gray's article is meant to serve as a wake-up call regarding the effects of lost play, and he believes that lack of childhood free play time is a huge loss that must be addressed for the sake of our children and society."

Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

Lewis and Short, online

Perseus: Online Latin dictionary

Great resource for Latin translation and composition. If I'd had this in college, it would have deprived me of my weekly trip to the MIT humanities library to use their Lewis and Short (and my weekly opportunity to flirt with the librarian).

Pioneer Woman: This is what homeschooling looks like.

"But as my preschooler draws various dinosaurs from his favorite board book, correcting my pronunciations of words a boy his age should not know how to say and my now 2nd-grader hands me last year's history book, apparently finished during her late night bedtime reading sessions just for fun, I'm realizing that school has already started.

"In fact, it probably never really ended last May."

Ace of Spades HQ: Chasing Degrees As An Alternative to Chasing a Job

"I think that we as a country have to re-think this whole 'chase your dreams!' idea that we've been feeding kids, because let's face it, their 'dreams' are often unrealistic and unlikely to lead to a decent career. The notion that 'every child must go to college' is slowly being recognized as a complete fallacy."

Dutch, Reformed: And Please Tell Me You Burned the Books, Too

Guess who's confiscating books at OU?

Nina Munk on Hard Times at Harvard | vanityfair.com

How the smartest people on the planet messed up the management of their massive endowment by playing the same stupid financial games as everyone else.