Land of Math

Math. Tacos. Teaching Math. Eating Tacos. We also make products to help you help kids with Math.

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@JoshPateCFB poll from gym in Ohio. OSU v. PSU not surprising ( because in Ohio ), but Indiana U. v. MSU!! Michigan St. ?? Guessing casuals.

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@JoshPateCFB FYI I attempted to do my part in promoting you show by making a video about the JP Poll. Clearly I'm not a pro but I'm just trying to make a play.
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@LateKickJosh @PatMcAfeeShow @CollegeGameDay By west coast wave I assume you are referring to the ACC & BIG 10 voting.

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@Academy is dominating the Zanesville skylines. Pate State like domination. Back to academy for more Big League Chew (forgot how great!). A Chalice of Supremacy would look pretty pretty good in the Land of Math world HQ (aka my office) @LateKickJosh #chaliceofsupremacy #latekick

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Hangin’ at @Academy. UA shirt & big league chew are the order of the day. @LateKickJosh #chaliceofsupremacy

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@LateKickJosh @Academy less than 3 hours til grand opening of Ohios first Academy sports in Zanesville #patestate #chaliceofsupremacy

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@LateKickJosh @Academy beyond pumped that Academy Sports is in Zanesville!! I couldn’t wait for the grand opening to start loading up. The only way this could be better is if I was awarded the Chalice of Supremacy! #patestate #patestatematerial #academysports

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest.

Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, & Reebok were all selling more shoes.

So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest.

The winner was

A corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield.

"Two days after the competition," he said, "I wasn't even asked—I was told that I was now a footwear designer for Nike."

As he got to work on his first official shoe design, he thought about a building he had studied in architecture school: The Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The Centre Pompidou is an inside-out building, meaning that the structural, mechanical, and circulation systems are all exposed.

“That building,” Tinker said, “was describing what it was to the people of Paris. And I thought, ‘Well why not do that with a shoe? Let’s cut a hole in the side and show what’s in the shoe.’”

So Tinker designed an inside-out shoe:

The Air Max 1.

The Air Max 1 was a massive success, and it steered Nike's design direction from then on.

"To this day," Tinker says, "Phil Knight says I saved Nike."

Takeaway 1:

Had he not studied that building in Paris, Tinker says, he couldn’t have created the Air Max.

Creativity, he says, is a function of the “library in your head."

“When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.”

Takeaway 2:

Tinker Hatfield went to architecture school and then he was a corporate architect for 4.5 years. Then, literally overnight, he became one of the best shoe designers in the world.

This makes me think of a counter-intuitive discovery made by psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904.

Before Spearman, the natural assumption was that the more you specialize in one thing, the worse you’ll be at other things.

Instead, Spearman discovered "the positive manifold" phenomenon.

He found that different abilities tend to be positively correlated. That the expertise gained through specialization is transferrable. That the cognitive and creative abilities cultivated as an architect could positively correlate with being a shoe designer.

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"Creativity is a function of the previous work you put in."  — Robert Greene

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@Ballaficionado3 @Chaperian @ecgrad1 @tak6tak @jhughes1776 @LateKickJosh Cincy is also know as Porkopolis.

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@LateKickJosh Close call for Iowa St. Thought they would get the nod.

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@redpentweeting Perhaps Dennis Hopper. He was in Hoosiers with Hackman.

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@John96384159 @_BuckeyeJosh 20-14 JG

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@joboaler Go with the LA Chargers (formerly San Diego). Very little fan support. (They could use you) Only 1 super bowl (a loss). Sweet looking baby blue uniforms. A rising team with an excellent quarterback. They are close enough that you can catch a game.

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@ormanclark Really enjoyed Tinker Hatfield show.

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@DirtAndSprague college station & penn state? Maybe state college

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@MickieGibbs2 Math Manual. Might I suggest a book with grid pages.

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@NCTM Atomic Habits & The obstacle is the way.

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@MrsAGilliam Nothing to do with students. All about limiting and controlling teachers.

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@EAwaah No calculator at start of year when working on fractions, integers, decimals and other basic fundamentals. I switch after that when covering percentages, equations, probability, & geometry.

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@garyvee Risk