Update for 2018/2019: sign up for our January 2019 Math Teacher Circles in Seattle here. In the run up to the upcoming year of Math Teacher Circles, we decided to offer a kickoff [...]
I’m hosting a math night for parents and students tonight at a local elementary school tonight. These are always fun events, because I get to preach how games and puzzles are [...]
The logician and puzzle-maker Raymond Smullyan died yesterday at the age of 97. After reports circulating on twitter, the news was confirmed, and articles in memorium have begun to appear. Smullyan was a brilliant designer of puzzles, and [...]
Reposting our last email newsletter to the blog. If you’d like to sign up on our email list, click here. January News from Math for Love Loss: A farewell to Sid the goat Birth: [...]
I’ve been meaning to write this lesson up for a long time. Finally, here it is, in all its glory. You can check it out below, or find it here on the lessons page. This trick is [...]
In my last blog post, I wrote about creating Doing-Math and Thinking-Math classrooms. One small but important ingredient I’ve found helpful for both is a good warmup [...]
This summer, we had the opportunity to draw up and institute a wholesale program from scratch, using our own lesson plans and providing the PD and support. Following that [...]
I just downloaded a new app that I think will be helpful reference! It’s called Exploring the Core. (At last check, it was $2.99.) It is, essentially, an easy-to-use [...]
I just had an interesting lab session with a school district we’re working with this year. The teachers (K-2) want to extend the scope and dynamics of their lesson plans, and [...]
Story problems! They are the great bugaboo of math class, the problems everyone remembers hating, On the other hand, when educators think of “real-world” math, useful math, or [...]
Sometimes you hear the perfect word to describe something you were already doing, but didn’t quite realize you were doing. My most favorite recent case of this came from [...]
I remember years ago reading about Sudoku. Already popular in Japan, the reviewer predicted that it would be featured in newspapers as regularly as crossword puzzles. Since then [...]
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