One fun thing math lets us do is measure difficult-to-measure things. Like fame. We all have an instinct for what fame is, and the more we put it into words, [...]
I’m not sure who came up with the idea of “Menus” as a math teaching device, though I first saw them at a workshop from the folks at MEC. Menus are [...]
I’ve been taking some time to write up some lessons, and I’d love to get some feedback. You can click here for a pdf of this lesson on 1-2 Nim. It’s [...]
The good thing about teaching percents is that they connect to the real world, particularly with money. The bad thing is, it can be hard to find really [...]
One of the beautiful results in mathematics is the proof of the divergence of the harmonic series. What it tells us is that the infinite series of [...]
The grails of math activities, for me, are those that involve almost no special knowledge to get into, but have near-infinite depth. (Like this one.) We [...]