A classroom of attentive students focused on the teacher, waving a whiteboard marker over equations and graphs? No! Mathematics is about adventure and discovery, and the power of groups to solve problems together – a bit like an escape room for the mind! In fact, I think we need to attract more adventurous math teachers […]
Peter Tavernise from Cisco writes, “What if your biggest challenge in learning math was that you could not understand the words that the teacher used to convey math concepts? That the language in the math book was not your first language? Or that your learning disability involved difficulties with words and reading?” This graph (from the […]
Did you know that some Math teachers try too hard! I know, because that was me! When you’re teaching math, you are up against some tough stereotypes and perceptions—you have more standards to address than you have time for, and you have to find a way to connect material to students in a meaningful way […]
Eddie Woo takes his students on a cool math adventure with their calculators to find out the value of zero to the power of zero!
Amazing that having the right chalk can make a mathematician work better and feel happier. After all, when has Mathematics been about ‘feeling’? Actually, it is ALL about feeling – about feeling confident, about feeling like taking risk, about feeling good when solving problems and feeling great at a mathematical revelation while sitting at the […]
