What’s awesome about algebra

As students are enrolling in pre-algebra and algebra in droves, I thought I would post this video, which is part 1 of a magic trick illustrating the [...]

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September 17, 2013

A spoonful of transgression

I was just observing a third grade class learning/reviewing basic fraction to decimal conversion, and I overheard a great remark. A girl, reading a word [...]

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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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May 16, 2011

Squares of Differences II: Changing Direction

[Note: this is a continuation to the first Squares of Differences post. Read that before continuing.] A week after introducing her class to squares of [...]

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October 22, 2010

The power of student questions (and the admiration of strangers)

I had two unsolicited, impressed comments from strangers who heard my tutoring sessions yesterday. It’s very gratifying: they’re more for my students than [...]

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