The beginning of the school year is full of promises. Piles of freshly bought and bound books pose beside bouquets of freshly sharpened pencil while the autumn sun streams in the window. In the fall, the world is our oyster. Educators, much like gardeners in spring, plan great things and venture forth into the ideal. […]
Keeps the math slump away. Everyone has experienced the initial fall slump in mathematics that requires a significant review process. In fact, one of the biggest complaints I’ve heard about some curriculums is that the first few chapters are all review. The math slump is real. There’s a saying in the music world that goes
Are final exams even necessary? Are we even allowed to ask this? Finals week in college and high school is always a stressful time, almost as a right of passage. Do assessments need to be stressful patterns of studying, furiously writing, and waiting for results? No. They really don’t. However, we do need to take
If infinity were odd then two times infinity would be even, but two times infinity is infinity, which is defined as odd. Therefore, infinity is not odd. Another win for proof by contradiction – assume a premise, show how the premise leads to a contradiction, which concludes that the premise is false, therefore, the negation
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As we finish this year strong, let’s remind ourselves why we study mathematics! Enjoy this throwback post: Creating wonder in our children comes naturally when we consider the world around us. What 2 year-old isn’t fascinated by the cooking pots, dog, or snow outside? These seemingly normal occurrences are new, exciting, and mysterious to our
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