I had one of those awesome experiences this week where a student thinks of a better question. I had been playing around with this issue of what money costs to [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been immersed in puzzle and lesson creation lately, and I thought I should take advantage and throw some of them out here on the blog. Please take, [...]