It’s a question that bothers many parents, especially homeschooling parents. After all, being responsible for a child’s math education is a heavy load to carry. There are two major things that can go wrong in math education: Students [...]
Not too long ago I picked up a book by a certain Arvin Vohra called The Equation for Excellence: How to Make Your Child Excel at Math. I thought I probably wouldn’t like it. That word “make” in the subtitle made me bristle right [...]
I always go back and forth on video and computer games to learn math. On the one hand, there’s something soporific about staring at a screen, and it feels like you need a kind of thought disengaged from the machine to really get to the [...]
A new student of mine invented two dice games last week, and I think they’re both fun to play and mathematically relevant. Plus, don’t you want to share when your kids get [...]
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Every kid needs to learn their times tables at some point, and this means practice. Unfortunately, practicing times tables can be unmotivated and boring for kids. We adults, rightly, ask, “How can we make it fun?” (Important note: [...]
Every day, it seems, I have three or four things I need to blog about, and I just can’t seem to keep up. Well, here goes. I hosted my first ever math salon tonight! I was very happy with it. Turnout was high, but not overwhelming. There [...]
I went to a linguistics talk in college and learned a cool fact from sociology: across cultures and ages, human beings are interested in stories that have to do with Death and danger Power Relations between the sexes These three topics [...]
Yesterday morning, I had the pleasure of talking to Kalid, founder of betterexplained.com, writer of ebooks explaining math, and a generally all around awesome guy. He happens to live in my neighborhood. I think about math a lot, but [...]
Scott McCloud, the brilliant comic artist and analyst, author of the definitive book Understanding Comics, decided it was time to get creative. So he would improvise comics, in a [...]
I was talking to my brother about math and teaching the other day, and he mentioned the Karate Kid (the original). It’s a classic story of learning. And in this case, learning [...]
I’ve been thinking about infinity a lot lately, and how it relates to something called the Droste Effect. It was named for the Droste cocoa box. Here’s the idea: the woman on [...]
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