This blog post on the educational value of creative disobedience has been making the rounds lately in some math/science circles. It’s excellently conceived and well written. I found myself nodding for the duration of the read.
When I was in high school, I went through an experimental phase of essay writing. The standard essay form was too dry, too monotonous to express everything passing through me and [...]
The conversation around gender and mathematics is often driven by poignant anecdote or by statistics. We have either the individual story of heartache or we have a set of disheartening numbers, and in either case, I feel frustrated. But [...]
Unlike toys, you should always try to break your mathematics. An example: at some point, we get used to the idea of powers as being a shorthand for repeated multiplication. What is 34? It’s three multiplied by itself four times, [...]
[Note: this is a continuation to the first Squares of Differences post. Read that before continuing.] A week after introducing her class to squares of differences (see for the first post on this lesson), one of Katherine’s students [...]
How to Solve a Song with Math https://youtu.be/pCrD9N_3Jkw
I had the opportunity to speak at the University of Washington Monthly Math Hour on April 17. Following my talk a six and a half year old named Rebekah gave me this drawing she [...]
Here is a phenomenal lesson, accessible to any child who knows how to subtract, and compelling to everyone, up to and including professional mathematicians. Get a kid engaged in it, and they’ll do hundreds of subtraction problems without [...]
A friend just sent me a video of Tony Orrico, whose Penwald series seems to be gaining some steam in certain art/dance circles. Here’s a sample: Essentially, we have an artist [...]
Reading the opinions and rants of various math curricula, I see how hard it can be to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a given math textbook. Is Saxon better than Everyday Math? What’s the best intervention for pre-K? When [...]
Katherine and I recently got into a big discussion with our friend Peter, who makes low cost, super-efficient wood stoves for use in the developing world (check out Burn Labs for [...]
Here’s a very clever April Fool’s video on imaginary numbers (and an imaginary teacher), sent to me by a friend. Enjoy!
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