A tale of know-how and want-to.
A math teacher’s advice for parents.
Category: Math
Why did you round 3560 to 3500 instead of 3600?
A 9-year-old calls me out on a sneaky act of rounding.
A riddle about jigsaw puzzles.
When you're sorting edges from middles, will the piles ever be equal in size?
The Battlestar Galactica Theory of Math Education
A thought on how to break the cycle.
Should math class be hard?
The answer may not surprise you -- but it surprised me.
What I’ve Been Reading
A few favorites.
Mathematicians Play “Set”
Spoilers: they are not good at it.
Solo Flights: A Free Companion Text to “Math Games with Bad Drawings”
By popular demand. (From a demanding populace.)
Confessions of a Luddite mathematician.
Why do some wizards know no spells?
Transitivity and its failures.
In a complex world, A > B and B > C may not mean A > C.