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 Becoming Invisible from Playing with 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, John Mason, Sangeeta Gulati. Text version
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, […]
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, […]
