“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.” -Albert Einstein (attributed) There’s a huge effort today to make math more accessible. [...]
The next math salon is January 24 from 4pm-6pm at Mosaic Coffeehouse, in Wallingford, Seattle. The event is free, though donations are welcomed. Please rsvp if you’d like to be [...]
Today’s blog posting is courtesy of Katherine Cook. Enjoy! The other day I read the popular book Born To Run. When I say the other day, take it at face value, because the book [...]
It’s easy to avoid thinking too hard about assessment. Just grade the papers and go home, right? But the most thoughtful path is to recognize that for the teacher and the student, assessing student work is a critical part of the process [...]
I finally got around to enabling video in my blog! So, in celebration, I’m properly posting an interview I gave a little bit ago on intrinsic motivation in mathematics.
I’ve been out of touch on the old web-log lately, but after a three week hiatus, I’m back! If you glance at the rest of the site, you might notice that there’s another person working with me. I haven’t officially announced it here [...]
Vi Hart, my favorite narrative doodler, has produced two more wonderful videos, and you should watch them. Right now, if you can. Now here’s my question: I love these videos, [...]
Sometimes I fantasize about writing the best math book ever written: I would pick my favorite topics that always seem to go missing from the standard curriculum and seamlessly use [...]
I’ll be teaching two classes at the Robinson Center starting in January, for 4-5th graders and for 8-12th graders. If you know kids in the right cohorts, these will be really exciting looks at infinity and its applications. I’ve [...]
A History of Pi, published in 1971, is about two things. The first is pi, the number, and our history struggling with its baffling qualities. The second is fascism and, more [...]
A 10-year-old I meet with greeted me yesterday by telling me that he’d had an idea for a game called “Triangle” right before going to bed. He described the basic premise, and we toyed with different ideas for game play. As we worked, [...]
A few weeks ago a student and I noticed that if connect a point on a circle to the two endpoints of a diameter, you seem to get a right triangle. After working for a bit, we came [...]
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