I always find myself repeating that math starts with play and proceeds to questions; these are the seeds from which the trees grows. A new, beautiful example of this just emailed [...]
Back from the math salon and feeling great. I’ve been able to make some minor adjustments since the last one: I added a challenge problem, a group game after people have mostly [...]
For anyone in the Seattle area, you’re invited to join the second Math for Love Math Games Salon. Where: Mosaic Coffeehouse, 44th and 2nd Ave in Wallingford. When: 4:30 – [...]
I met with an older student this evening, who’s story is classic. He excelled in math effortlessly; everything was obvious. This until he hit college level abstract algebra, and [...]
From Play, by Stuart Brown: One biologist who studied river otters decided to train some of them to swim through a hoop by offering a food reward for completing the task. Shortly after the otters learned to do this, the animals started [...]
Here’s a news flash: go into the best classrooms in the world and you won’t see too many computers. “In most of the highest-performing systems, technology is remarkably absent from classrooms,” says Andreas Schleicher, a veteran [...]
As you may have noticed, I just added an email subscription box and rss feed subscription button in the column to the right. You can now enjoy the blog from the comfort of your own email account or reader! On to the point of this email: I [...]
I had two unsolicited, impressed comments from strangers who heard my tutoring sessions yesterday. It’s very gratifying: they’re more for my students than for me, but what [...]
I’d like to plug one of my favorite math blogs: Let’s Play Math! Why do I like it so much? It captures the spirit of play and beauty of math excellently. The current quote on the blog is: “It’s like asking why Beethoven’s [...]
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 [...]
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