I recently posed one of my favorite questions of all time to a student I’m tutoring. He’s something of a natural, and got it remarkably quickly. I [...]
Link: Teachers struggle in math This article hits on a disturbing (and common) thread: teachers of young children often have very little positive experience [...]
Link: Math is the lie that makes us realize the truth. A great guest column in the NYTimes on the mathematics of scale. That such a simple idea is so [...]
Imagine I took a small handful of pennies and showed them to you clumped together, then spread the same collection out into a wider array; you know, without [...]
Link: The meaning of the search This beautiful essay in the last edition of Wired magazine gave a really nice explanation of why science (and math) is worth [...]
I got some requests to clarify what I meant when I said that this was a moment for mathematics in our culture. Let me explain. For the first time ever, math is [...]