Balancing The Equation for Excellence
Not too long ago I picked up a book by a certain Arvin Vohra called The Equation for Excellence: How to Make Your Child Excel at Math. I thought I probably wouldn’t like it. That word “make” in the...
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“Is my child learning enough math?”
It’s a question that bothers many parents, especially homeschooling parents. After all, being responsible for a child’s math education is a heavy load to carry. There are two major things that can go...
View ArticleAnimal vs. Grad Student
From Play, by Stuart Brown: One biologist who studied river otters decided to train some of them to swim through a hoop by offering a food reward for completing the task. Shortly after the otters...
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Special Relativity, as simply as possible
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. -Albert Einstein (attributed) There’s a huge effort today to make math more accessible. I’m part of it, and so are many others...
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Bottlenecking
Another guest post from Katherine Cook. Enjoy! “Your brain manages a vast information highway–yet a simple math problem can create a traffic jam that brings everything to a halt.” So begins an article...
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How to Appreciate the Arts
When I was in high school, I went through an experimental phase of essay writing. The standard essay form was too dry, too monotonous to express everything passing through me and percolating in my...
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Article 3
“Nothing is more attractive to me than a muddled domain awaiting its first theory. I feel most at home with a jumble of glittering data and the feeling that they might be fitted together for the first...
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A Teaching Quote from Frank McCourt
I had to begin enjoying the act of teaching and the only way I could do that was to start over, teach what I loved and to hell with the curriculum.
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Josekis
What is joseki? It’s a handy word, and used frequently in Japan. A remark overheard one clear morning: ‘I’m going to follow my joseki and take the dog out for a walk.’ … These days the word ‘joseki’...
View ArticleA Poem by Neruda
28325674549 A hand made a number. It joined one little stone to another, one thunderclap to another, one fallen eagle to another, one arrowhead to another, and then with the patience of granite the...
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Math that makes worlds
From the May 18 New Yorker article World Without End, by Raffi Khatchadourian: The design allows for extraordinary economy in computer processing: the terrain for eighteen quintillion unique planets...
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“Is my child learning enough math?”
It’s a question that bothers many parents, especially homeschooling parents. After all, being responsible for a child’s math education is a heavy load to carry. There are two major things that can go...
View ArticleAnimal vs. Grad Student
From Play, by Stuart Brown: One biologist who studied river otters decided to train some of them to swim through a hoop by offering a food reward for completing the task. Shortly after the otters...
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Special Relativity, as simply as possible
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. -Albert Einstein (attributed) There’s a huge effort today to make math more accessible. I’m part of it, and so are many others...
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Bottlenecking
Another guest post from Katherine Cook. Enjoy! “Your brain manages a vast information highway–yet a simple math problem can create a traffic jam that brings everything to a halt.” So begins an article...
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How to Appreciate the Arts
When I was in high school, I went through an experimental phase of essay writing. The standard essay form was too dry, too monotonous to express everything passing through me and percolating in my...
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Article 4
“Nothing is more attractive to me than a muddled domain awaiting its first theory. I feel most at home with a jumble of glittering data and the feeling that they might be fitted together for the first...
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A Teaching Quote from Frank McCourt
I had to begin enjoying the act of teaching and the only way I could do that was to start over, teach what I loved and to hell with the curriculum.
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Josekis
What is joseki? It’s a handy word, and used frequently in Japan. A remark overheard one clear morning: ‘I’m going to follow my joseki and take the dog out for a walk.’ … These days the word ‘joseki’...
View ArticleA Poem by Neruda
28325674549 A hand made a number. It joined one little stone to another, one thunderclap to another, one fallen eagle to another, one arrowhead to another, and then with the patience of granite the...
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