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 [...]
I’m proud to say it’s the most trustworthy. Thanks, Matt, for sending me this informative graphic in response to my video interview.
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 [...]
I’ve been so swamped with students (and the logistics that accompany them) that I haven’t had much time to post lately; too bad, because my mind has been buzzing. I’ve had such great experiences with these new kids, and read so much [...]
There’s a new movie coming out soon called Waiting for Superman. It looks to be a devastating appraisal of the education system, and how it fails kids. I can’t wait to see it.
I blogged On Danger a little while ago (best viewed in the archive, over here), and this xkcd post is the perfect followup.
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