Go Figure: Making Numbers Count

A five-year flashback here, from my January 2019 program at the Ela Area Public Library.

Looking forward to bringing Go Figure: Making Numbers Count to area venues in 2024, including those that focus on separating fact from fiction related to the U.S. Presidential campaigns. In 2020, I led a dozen such workshops for area libraries.

On Feb. 6: Numeracy Expert Matt Baron at Ela Area Public Library One of your neighbors posted in Arts & Entertainment. Click through to read what they have to say. (The views expressed in this post are the author’s own.)

When an entire crew fails to recognize the abject absurdity of a tweet, an egg-on-the-face math gaffe is the consequence:

https://www.insideedgepr.com/epic-math-gaffe-by-brian-williams-mara-gay-highlights-desperate-need-for-improved-numeracy/

An Associated Press story from 1989, on Michigan's championship basketball win over Seton Hall.

"The top of whose head"--an all-time wacky phrase. One doesn't dunk with the top of one's head, and beyond that, is this a back-door way to slip in the fact that the hoop is 10 feet high?

Congrats to Miguel Cabrera on 3,000 hits.

Here's my look on his remarkable journey, including his season playing for the Kane County Cougars. My Daily Herald column also includes a unique analysis of how his path compares to other 3000-hit club members.

Ex-Kane County Cougar Miguel Cabrera takes up and down path to 3,000 hits Since playing at Elfstrom Stadium in Geneva, Miguel Cabrera's arc has taken a course similar to other diamond legends: Meteoric rise to prominence as a Marlin in the National League, an extended reign of dominance through the bulk of his career, and then an injury-riddled decline the past half-decad...