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, […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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Multiplication, homeschool conference, Kaprekar: Newsletter July 30, 2013

Subscribe I am Moby Snoodles, and this is my newsletter. I love to hear from you at moby@moebiusnoodles.com Next course: Wow, Multiplication! We are working on designing a series of short high-energy courses for parents, Math Circle leaders, and other innovative educators. Our first such micro-course will be about multiplication. We will introduce two highly addictive, […]

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