Q.E.D.

How Math Education Affects Us All

This fall’s news that Canadian Donna Strickland became the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics filled me with national pride and…

Yes, you read that correctly. I love reading about abstract math theory… and that’s without any background in mathematics.

It took Julia Robinson and her mathematical team of four 22 years to crack Hilbert’s Tenth problem, one of 23 he passionately and…

A D minus…

Peter Harrison, my mentor who I taught with for 4 years from 1998 to 2002, and who was a huge influence in the landscape of math education…

It took 358 years to crack Fermat’s Last Theorem. And, prior to its proof in 1994 by Andrew Wiles, it held The Guinness World Book of…

A little over a year ago I wrote a blog post on what I like to call “The Era of Resource Abundance.” You can find that post here. To…

Here’s a strange question.

Both of my kids love math. Both of my kids find math to be their least favorite subject in school. That isn’t so much as contradictory, as…

There is a psychological tactic employed by some classroom teachers following a strict curriculum: to bond with one’s students by casting…

This puzzle was posted on Twitter this week; I LOVE IT!

I was recently asked to be on a panel discussion online, along with a few others with an interest in recreational mathematics. The topic…

This is a loose follow up to my previous blog, ‘Drawing Math in the Sky: Mental Math Visualization’.

I sat with my 10 year-old daughter tonight for 15 minutes doing math —  like I do most nights. I also sit with my 12 year-old son for the…