Michelle Feynman
speaker
229 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
Michelle Feynman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they were, you know, they were in it.
So he was on the curriculum commission, and so they all looked at textbooks and decided that, you know, this one should be approved and this one should not.
My mom talked about how passionate he was about it.
She said he would be in the basement and it was like an explosion from down below because he would just be incensed by the inane math problems.
Like, you know, Johnny sees a star of 3,000 degrees.
He sees another star of 6,000 degrees.
What's the total number of...
When would you ever need to know any of that in nature?
You just wouldn't.
When I was doing math in high school, my dad would look over my shoulder and say, oh, hang on.
I got a good way you could do that.
I can think of five ways, and let me just show you one.
And so I would take it to school and go, check this out.
And the teacher did not share my enthusiasm and said, well—
no, I mean, yes, you got the right answer, but no, that's not what we're doing here.
And so at a certain point, my dad had enough and went to go see the teacher.
And I don't think the teacher knew who he was.
My dad was really, really trying to play it cool and just be sort of, you know, I'm Michelle's dad.
And at some point, the guy said something like,
You should try reading a math book.
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