Wes Carroll Tutoring & Coaching Blog
Podcast – 14: O gnats, tango!
Earlier this week I was rob...er...exploring tombs and I accidently triggered a trap that locked me in a room. With me are a pair of ...
What The SAT Tests
I can't make this stuff up: three days after I reposted my 2012 essay in response to an article by a grown-up taking the SAT, ...
Podcast – 13: Order of operands
Cindy was asked by her teacher to subtract 3 from a certain number and then divide the result by 9. Instead, she subtracted 9 and ...
Take It Like A Grown-Up
A few years ago, a 35-year-old took the SAT and wrote about the experience. I responded with the essay below, which I think is relevant ...
Podcast – 12: One light switch
For years you were a lonely prisoner here. But earlier today, you were brought to a courtyard to join the others, where you are all ...
Podcast – 11: The loopiest puzzler
I have four lengths of rope. I hold them so that you can see all eight ends, but you can’t tell which end connects to ...
Math Excellence For Girls
From MIT and NBER, this just in: "...almost all girls with the ability to reach high math achievement levels are not doing so." (Here's the ...
Time For More Difficult Problems…
I've been doing a podcast of math problems, and the feedback so far is: give us more difficult problems! You asked, I'll deliver. I hope ...
Podcast – 10: Eight’s too many
In the eight-term sequence "a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h", c represents 5, and the sum of any three consecutive terms is 30 ...
Podcast – 09: Coin flip winner
We’re going to play a simple coin-flip game. We take turns flipping a fair coin. The first one to get “heads” wins. You go first ...
