Inflationary Use of the Word "Crisis?"

Check out the recent Freakonomics blog about President Obama's State of the Union Address.

Obama used the word “crisis” 11 times — more than twice as much as any other president. Hoover used it only four times in 1932 during the Great Depression.

Is the economy worse now? Or is there an inflationary use of the word "crisis" so that the word needs to be used more because the value (impact) of the word has diminished? Sort of like the reduction in the purchasing power of a dollar.

Permutations Continued

The post entitled Permutations contains a flowgram about a counting technique used in statistics and probability that is called permutations. When we select r objects out of n total objects and arrange them when the order of arrangement matters, then the total number of permuations tells us the number of different arrangements possible.

Permutations

Math Tutorial Videos and Multiplicity

One of the things that I intend to do as I evolve is to create tutorials (video and audio) in various areas such as mathematics, economics, technology, etc. In the meantime, I stumbled upon a mathematician that has created a large number of math tutorial videos for algebra, SAT prep, trigonometry, statistics, probability, and calculus. I watched a few and found them to be pretty good. I would encourage any of my students that need a little help in any area to search the following two sites and check out the math tutorial videos.

Just Math Tutoring Videos

Math Tutoring Videos

My long term goal is to incorporate technology into the learning process in such a way that I can essentially create another me (clone) that can take care of my teaching duties. The original me (not the clone) will then play tennis all the time and still remain employed in the teaching profession. Check out the movie Multiplicity.