Teaching in Higher Ed

Who’s Counting

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John Allen Paulos shares about his new book, Who’s Counting, on episode 429 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We do speak in probabilities our whole lives. Most of us speak it badly, but we do speak it.

-John Allen Paulos

Resources
  • Who’s Counting? Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More, by John Allen Paulos
  • Mathematics cartoon
  • Pun
  • Bayes theorem

    • Affiliate income disclosure: Books that are recommended on the podcast link to the Teaching in Higher Ed bookstore on Bookshop.org(https://bookshop.org/shop/teachinginhighered). All affiliate income gets donated to the LibroMobile Arts Cooperative (LMAC)(https://bookshop.org/shop/LibroMobile), established in 2016 by Sara Rafael Garcia(https://www.cuentosmobile.com/bio).”

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