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That post (two posts back) was pretty high on the rant-scale, I admit. So be it. It should be tempered with a little praise for good teachers, though, and a reader left a very inspiring comment at it. Go check it out. It’s at the “Why you Suck at Math (Pt. I)” page. Her comment [...] Today I put up the podcast for the first of the lessons about multiplying by 3 from left-to-right on the Eating Math for Breakfast pages. I also put up the second lesson, but without the podcast. The podcast for that will go up tomorrow. Sorry for the lateness, but we’ve had a lot of snow, [...] Well, no, I don’t necessarily mean you. But it is a catchy title. What I do want to address, though, is why so many people feel that they suck at math. There are so many reasons. A major one is that they have never been introduced to math, just some bad imposter created by the [...] Today is a very special day. My wife is going to cook some t-bone steaks, but not for us – for our dogs! Our oldest dog turns 6 (human) years old today. He is a wonderful golden retriever, named Galileo. I’m going to take him and his wife (our other golden retriever, Maia, who will [...] Math for Math’s Sake (What a concept!) I’m sure you’ve heard of the concept of “art for art’s sake.” That basically implies that the beauty of art is reason enough to pursue it. The phrase (l’art pour l’art) is generally attributed to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872). He was rebelling against the Idea that, historically, art was used [...] This post is a continuation of the other posts about the video on YouTube entitled “An Inconvenient Truth” with M.J McDermott (not to be confused with Al Gore’s film) which concerns the dismal state of American basic math education in public schools. You can view it here. M.J. had two good premises, but her conclusion does [...] |
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