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<v ->Well, I think the major source of humor</v>

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in my classroom are the students laughing at me.

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That is my source of entertainment most of the time.

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And that gives us a sort of proper, respectful relationship

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where they're learning mostly from themselves

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and I'm just sort of there to direct them

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and that's really true.

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I teach strategy and you can think of strategy

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as sort of applied economics.

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You're using the systems thinking that goes along

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with economics and then figuring out

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how you can maneuver within that as a firm

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to make money.

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In the classroom, you're trying to figure out a puzzle

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about how should we bring out these complicated ideas

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in the best way.

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So I've done things like, I've built simulations

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and games so that students can experience

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relatively complicated mathematics,

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but directly viscerally.

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Say you don't know something in my class.

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In fact, I think often

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what we're doing in my class is we're taking problems

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that are really hard to structure

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and organizing them so that we know

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how to go about answering them

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and then we can add in the data.

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And so often what I'm getting students

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is to not give me an answer,

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but to tell me how they would go about answering something.