I just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. (I know, I’m over a decade late to the party. I’m a slow reader.) It was mostly pleasure reading, but towards the end I realized that what the book is about is not just how fads [...]
We are happy to announce that we’ve received an investment from Washington STEM to expand our work with teachers in Seattle area schools this coming year! We’ll be running math circles for teachers from schools that serve underserved [...]
Take note: Randall Munroe, the genius behind xkcd.com, has launched a new public service: people ask questions, and he answers on Tuesday. You have to see it to understand how [...]
At some point in the last several decades, people began to realize that reading to their children was a great way to help their children learn to read. “Read to your kids at [...]
We’ve been MIA for the last two months, but I promise you, there’s a very good reason for it. And here it is: Katherine and I got married this summer. So, we’ve officially [...]
I like this little writeup on Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School from Forbes. It pithily gets into the consequences of having a system that’s so standardized that [...]
Things are crazy busy, and haven’t posted in too long. I’m not going to change that in any serious way at the moment, but when xkcd throws up something this topical, I have a [...]
Two brief announcements. First, the coolest new thing on the internet. This is an interactive update to the old powers of 10 video, and the kind of thing you can spend a lot of [...]
And making money in Vegas is a bad long term life plan. It doesn’t matter what your “strategy” is. These games of chance are built around a simple premise: no matter who you [...]
It was the culmination of a lot of work, and now it’s over. The conclusion: Seattle’s first Julia Robinson Festival was amazing. We had 150 students and 50 volunteers working [...]
Check out the new Best of the Blog page! It’s a place to find some of our favorite lessons, videos, commentary and inspiration since we’ve been writing here. For those in readers, the full link is here: [...]
This is the Towers of Hanoi. The puzzle is almost intuitive: how can you move the tower from the left peg to the right without placing any larger disks on top of any smaller [...]
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