I was playing Blokus with some kids, and I asked: how in the world did they choose these pieces? There are 21 pieces in odd shapes of various sizes. Each one consists of between [...]
Today marks the 11th anniversary of my father’s death. Appropriately, I’m reading a book by Ken Bain called What the Best College Teachers Do. It’s a years long, systematic [...]
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I’m very excited to announce the official, public beginning of Math for Love. In addition to blogging (and I have a backlog right now, due to my vacation, and the work of getting the website ready), mathforlove.com is now a website that [...]
Great comments in the last post! In the spirit of self referential comedy, I have to include one of the suggestions mentioned there: If you go to the original comic, you get an [...]
The satisfaction and excitement are so palpable.
If you want to see someone really committed to freedom in education, check out Free At Last: The Sudbury Valley School, which you can read online at the link, if you want. I went there for the first chapter, on teaching arithmetic, but [...]
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that [...]
Link: Nice to see a well balanced prodigy.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Millenium Problems, the seven $1,000,000 prize math problems. They’re pretty hard. In fact, I kind of assumed we’d see one solved every forty or fifty years. Well, an eccentric Russian named Grigori [...]
You can use math to blow people’s mind so easily and so casually that it almost feels unfair. I had the pleasure of doing so tonight at a volunteer orientation meeting at the Puget Sound Community School, a pretty awesome Seattle school [...]
No tricks. No formulas. You’re just a human being, looking at one of the simplest and most fundamental shapes there is, just like your ancestors once did before anyone had any idea about formulas. What do you do?
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