I’ve been so swamped with students (and the logistics that accompany them) that I haven’t had much time to post lately; too bad, because my mind has been buzzing. I’ve had such great experiences with these new kids, and read so much [...]
There’s a new movie coming out soon called Waiting for Superman. It looks to be a devastating appraisal of the education system, and how it fails kids. I can’t wait to see it.
I blogged On Danger a little while ago (best viewed in the archive, over here), and this xkcd post is the perfect followup.
I was playing Blokus with some kids, and I asked: how in the world did they choose these pieces? There are 21 pieces in odd shapes of various sizes. Each one consists of between [...]
Today marks the 11th anniversary of my father’s death. Appropriately, I’m reading a book by Ken Bain called What the Best College Teachers Do. It’s a years long, systematic [...]
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I’m very excited to announce the official, public beginning of Math for Love. In addition to blogging (and I have a backlog right now, due to my vacation, and the work of getting the website ready), mathforlove.com is now a website that [...]
Great comments in the last post! In the spirit of self referential comedy, I have to include one of the suggestions mentioned there: If you go to the original comic, you get an [...]
The satisfaction and excitement are so palpable.
If you want to see someone really committed to freedom in education, check out Free At Last: The Sudbury Valley School, which you can read online at the link, if you want. I went there for the first chapter, on teaching arithmetic, but [...]
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that [...]
Link: Nice to see a well balanced prodigy.
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