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 […]
Multiplication course; functions and functionals; playful calculus – Newsletter August 15
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, […]
The last mpsMOOC13 Observer: Thanks and lessons learned
Read past issues | Visit the course page | Follow Moebius Noodles on Facebook Time flies when you do math! Our open online course Problem Solving for the Young, the Very Young and the Young at Heart is almost over. This is the final issue of the course newsletter. Thank you! To everyone who signed up: thank you! When […]