Category: Make & Grow
Becoming Invisible by Bob Kaplan, in Playing with Math
How do you help students be heroes of their own math adventures? How to avoid taking over? Become invisible! That’s what Bob Kaplan of the Harvard Math Circle says. From Playing with Math edited by Sue VanHattum. Download or print PDF of…
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60 ways to stay creative in math
Thanks and credits 33 ways to stay creative by Anonymous Art of Inquiry Problem-Solving Bingo by Julia Brodsky Martian Math by Kirby Urner Math Future forum members: Michael Paul, Algot Runeman, Donal Cohen, David Chandler, Bradford Hansen-Smith,…
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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…
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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!…
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