On this, the 43rd episode of Combinations and Permutations Brandon Metz, Cody Palmer, and Samuel Hansen got together to record about an hour of surprisingly sincere and honest audio on mathematical teaching. Unlike most episode there is not a long list of links to wikipedia articles or pop culture minutiae to post here so instead I will leave you with two videos that were mentioned in the episode and the list of terrible teacher types.

First the List:
Mr. Looks-Only-At-the-Board
Mr. Engages-With-Only-a-Single-Person
Mr. Changes-Variables-While-Slamming-Markers-Into-the-Board-and_Erasing-Half-of-the-Work-Because-it-is-Really-Really-Wrong-and-Hands-Out-a-Ream-Worth-of-Wikipedia-Articles-as-Reference
Mr. Egotistical-the-Content-Doesn’t-Really-Matter-I’m-Only-Going-to-Talk-About-Myself

And now the videos:

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On today’s episode Brandon Metz and Cody Palmer are the guests as your intrepid, and often abused host, Samuel Hansen does his best to try to make them talk about Partition Theory. Samuel soon sees it is hopeless and begins to sing.

Topics Discussed on the Episode include:
Partition Theory
Lagrange Four-Square Theorem
Polite Numbers
Goldbach Conjecture

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