I went to a linguistics lecture in college to hear a speaker talk about how they had written Dr. Seuss type books for kids. One gem from that talk that always [...]
I often stress the perspective that the first thing you need do be a great teacher is love: love of your subject, love of teaching, love of learning. The [...]
A huge thank you to Jade, who referred me to this compelling argument for not teaching mathematics (or teaching less mathematics, or teaching it in a [...]
There’s a great story in the beautiful, tragic, triumphant story of Ramanujan. Ramanujan emerged from India in the early 1900s (out of nowhere as far as [...]
This weekend I gave a middle school version of a keynote lecture at the local Mathcounts tournament, as a group of 5th to 8th graders finished slices of pizza [...]
I have begun teaching two, not one, but two sections of differential equations this quarter, and immediately, the classes are different from each other. In [...]