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December 18, 2020

Perils and Promise of EdTech (featuring Prime Climb)

We are, as a rule, skeptical of the promises of the EdTech world. When so many students (young students especially) need hands-on materials, why put them on [...]

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February 9, 2016

Aggression: the amazing arithmetic game no one knows about

I first played the game Aggression about five years ago. I had recently read Eric Solomon’s Games with Pencil and Paper, and tried the game out with a [...]

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July 2, 2014

Playing with Math and more

Early summer is a great time of year in Seattle and Eastern WA, where we’re splitting our time right now. We’ve been pouring energy into a few projects: [...]

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October 3, 2013

Twin Prime Hero

I just read this wonderful interview with Tom Zhang, who made recent, important progress on the Twin Prime conjecture. It’s a strange, quiet interview, and a [...]

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February 11, 2013

Doubling Algebra? Or making it work?

I’d call this article, about how doubling the time students spent studying algebra led them to do better in math and also reading and writing(!) a case of [...]

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October 12, 2012

Math and the Drug War

The drug war is one issue that tends to be too hot for presidential politics. You won’t hear any questions at the debates about it, and you can be sure the [...]

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