Here’s my dirty secret – Math Mojo isn’t about any math techniques. It’s about re-humanizing the learning experience. My goal is to get people to realize, “Hey, that’s amazing! I can really learn meaningful stuff if I want to! And it’s always more fun and rewarding than that stuff the drones do!” [...]
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Ah, math ed. I hate it. Yes, I hate it. It has become a corporate tug-of-war for the hearts and minds of petty pedagogues, and your kids are in the crossfire. Should it be Math-U-See? TERC, Singapore, Saxon, or one of the other over-marketed mind-usurpers? I like math. I love math. I hate to see [...] Well, of course it’s not the problem, just one of many, but here it goes… Somehow along the way, people got the feeling that math is supposed to always be right, and that math teachers are supposed to know all the answers. Math has gotten the reputation of being an authoritarian science. I don’t think [...] That it’s “broken” seems clear. But what is “it?” Each state, district, and even type of school is different. One thing that is clear is that creating simplistic “standards” (which are supposed to cover all federally funded schools) is just jaw-flapping by people who understand neither education, math, nor children. [...]
Photo credits: two unknown and one from monkeymucker Edited by Brian I recently read a post at: dolcevitaacademy, which talked a bit about something that is close to my heart, which is: should you focus on teaching concrete skills first, or rather on concepts? (I’ve blogged about that on [...] Teachers are not being taught math adequately, and generally fail to teach it well to their students. (Do tell…) [...] What the heck does writing backwards have to do with math? For me, it’s a sort of warm-up exercise to get me into the creative, non-judgemental flow of opening my mind. This helps let answers come to me that my mind would otherwise have blocked out. It makes thinking less of a chore and [...] With so many things in bloom here in rural upstate New York, I figured it’s time for some new Ideas with Math Mojo. One of them is the addition of a new segment, called, “Strange Powers of the Mind.” Look for a lot more weird stuff like this at Math Mojo. Sign up for [...] |
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