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Today a concerned reader took issue with what he understands my methods to be. (See comment #4 at Augends, Addends and the Commutative Law of Addition.) Fair enough, but I think he may have misunderstood my methods. That could, of course, be due to the way I communicate them (or miscommunicate them). First let me [...] While surfing some of the other math blogs in the blogosphere, I ran across a post in Michael Paul Goldenberg’s Rational Mathematics Education blog. In a recent post of his he mentions an article written by Paul Lockhart entitled, “A Mathematician’s Lament.” It was written in 2002, but has only gotten mass coverage recently, since [...]
Photography by Santarosa, Justin Wong and Brian. Edited by Brian (This was meant to be posted on Monday. Sorry about the lateness). Many of us who struggle to learn math (yes, I am one of them) suffer from assorted challenges, like ADD, procrastination, lack of focus, depression, and other things that are or [...] Recently I got an request to review my booklet, “Numbers Juggling – Times without the Tables.” Request came from Sol Lederman, who runs the “Wildaboutmath” blog. I’d heard that name before, but really couldn’t remember much about Sol, so I checked out his blog to see how serious it was. Wow, it’s a [...] My team-mate (my wife) and I had been stumped by a corner of the puzzle from last Friday. It was driving us nuts (who the heck is Al Leitner?). Anyway, we usually get ‘em all within a day or two, but this one was tough, so I hit the web and googled some clues. I don’t like to cheat (OK, I do, but my wife has a little more backbone than I, and she usually won’t let me look up an answer until we’ve given it a few days). [...] |
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