Subscribe I am Moby Snoodles, and this is my newsletter. I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com Book news We are crowd-translating Moebius Noodles into many languages. First, volunteers translate the text. Next comes copy editing. Then the layout, and publishing. The Persian translation is in the layout stage – hard to do because the […]
Multiplication course; functions and functionals; playful calculus – Newsletter August 15
Subscribe I am Moby Snoodles, and this is my newsletter. I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com WOW – Multiplication! An open online course for parents and teachers To sign up or for more info, email moby@moebiusnoodles.com Multiplication and division are areas where many kids lose their fight against dreary, rote methods of teaching mathematics. Most […]
The mass movement of early math: Designing for behavior change
This week, I attended an O’Reilly webinar by Stephen Wendel about his upcoming book, Designing for Behavior Change. O’Relly’s staged publishing process is one of the inspirations for how we do things at Moebius Noodles. The feedback from the webinar will be incorporated into the next draft of the book. We would like many, many, […]
Make math mistakes in public!
Looking at many polished photos of other people’s gorgeous vacations leads to depression, as Jessica Winter summarizes in Selfie-Loathing. What happens when students keep looking at perfectly solved problems, smooth proofs of theorems, and flawless geometric constructions? They get math anxiety! In his public service announcement, “Don’t learn the solutions before class!” and in the comments, […]