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The HIPS had their second performance this past weekend at Gabriel’s Cafe, and it rocked! Brandon and Taylor kicked off the night with the Starland Vocal Band’s “Afternoon Delight.”

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Here’s Tom singing Hank Williams’ “Lonesome Whistle.” His musical skills are anything but bass-ic.

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Here’s a song I wrote called, […]

This semester I learned 2 new things: how to play the guitar and what the horizontal segment of the intraparietal sulcus is (it’s a part of the brain that does number processing and it’s abbreviated “HIPS”). Combining the two resulted in the Science & Math Education Band aka The HIPS. Our first performance […]

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Last May, the head of the math department at my high school was retiring and moving to Georgia. I rewrote the lyrics to “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and some other crazy math teachers decided to sing the song for her at her retirement party. We […]

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Over the years, a crazy tradition has developed in my family: Kitchen Dancing. It’s practiced throughout the year, but it originated over the Christmas holidays when my family gathers together at my grandparents’ house. After dinner, we put a special “kitchen dancing” song mix into the cd player, turn the […]

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Merry Christmas!

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I gave a presentation in my Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Science and Math Achievement class (whew, that’s a mouthful) on the article “Bridging Differences: How Social Relationships and Racial Diversity Matter in a Girls’ Technology Program” (another mouthful) by Linda Kekelis. In the introduction, the article says that girls who attend […]