I went to a linguistics talk in college and learned a cool fact from sociology: across cultures and ages, human beings are interested in stories that have to do with Death and danger Power Relations between the sexes These three topics [...]
Yesterday morning, I had the pleasure of talking to Kalid, founder of betterexplained.com, writer of ebooks explaining math, and a generally all around awesome guy. He happens to live in my neighborhood. I think about math a lot, but [...]
Scott McCloud, the brilliant comic artist and analyst, author of the definitive book Understanding Comics, decided it was time to get creative. So he would improvise comics, in a [...]
I was talking to my brother about math and teaching the other day, and he mentioned the Karate Kid (the original). It’s a classic story of learning. And in this case, learning [...]
I’ve been thinking about infinity a lot lately, and how it relates to something called the Droste Effect. It was named for the Droste cocoa box. Here’s the idea: the woman on [...]
I’ve been so swamped with students (and the logistics that accompany them) that I haven’t had much time to post lately; too bad, because my mind has been buzzing. I’ve had such great experiences with these new kids, and read so much [...]
There’s a new movie coming out soon called Waiting for Superman. It looks to be a devastating appraisal of the education system, and how it fails kids. I can’t wait to see it.
I blogged On Danger a little while ago (best viewed in the archive, over here), and this xkcd post is the perfect followup.
I was playing Blokus with some kids, and I asked: how in the world did they choose these pieces? There are 21 pieces in odd shapes of various sizes. Each one consists of between [...]
Today marks the 11th anniversary of my father’s death. Appropriately, I’m reading a book by Ken Bain called What the Best College Teachers Do. It’s a years long, systematic [...]
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I’m very excited to announce the official, public beginning of Math for Love. In addition to blogging (and I have a backlog right now, due to my vacation, and the work of getting the website ready), mathforlove.com is now a website that [...]
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