The Skeptic’s Horoscope

ARIES - Today, your lucky numbers are statistically indistinguishable from your unlucky ones. Sorry about that.

Wrong But Not Stupid

What do you say when a student is wrong? How do you address misconceptions without steamrolling egos?

Sorry Mom, I can't go to school today. I'm having a trig identity crisis.

Every so often an article lands in my inbox, promising that some technology will remake the classroom.

Math is like a parasite-eating bird, perched on the rhino of scientific reality.

"Quick!" he screams. "Is anybody here a doctor, a nurse, or a low-dimensional topologist?"

For every action, there shall be a vicious and disproportionate reaction.

To start the year, I wanted to see what my students thought of mathematics.

47% of American fiction is now written in Starbucks. Including this statistic.

Man—I had a whole, scathing essay written and ready to go. I was halfway into the boxing right when I realized I was on the wrong side of the fight.