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It’s Elementary (School), My Dear Watson
[Rescued from my old blog.] From Time magazine, June 18, 1956: “[M]athematics has the dubious honor of being the least popular subject in the curriculum… Future teachers pass through the elementary...
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Elementary Teacher Education
Unfortunately, this is all too believable: Received an email from a parent. Not one of our students, but rather the parent of a high school student who plans to attend this university. The parent is...
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Math Quotes VII: Problems Worthy of Attack
Time to catch up on our blackboard quotes. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. — Confucius I have no particular talent, I am only inquisitive. — Albert...
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In Honor of the Standardized Testing Season…
The teacher’s attitude makes a tremendous difference in the student’s learning. Which of the following teachers would you rather have? I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly...
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Quotations VIII: The Essence of Mathematics
Our homeschool co-op classes are done for the semester, so this will be my last compilation of blackboard quotes for awhile. I love collecting quotations, however, so I will be treating you to some of...
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How To Harness Metacognitive Decision-Making
To organize a homeschool co-op requires an awesome team of innovative planners. The e-mails keep flying as we attempt to generate dynamic problem-solving strategies. Our goal for the fall semester is...
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While I Was Distracted…
After a hectic couple of weeks, I finally found a little time to sit at the computer and browse — and boy, was I amazed to see what I had missed! If you have not yet read Dave‘s interview with Prof....
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Quotations XVII: If People Don’t Believe That Mathematics Is Simple…
Quotes from my blackboard during October: Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward. — Vernon Law What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry...
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Free Shakespeare for Fun and Copywork
Photo by Arbron. This week only, [When I checked the link in April 2011, this was still free!] CurrClick (which carries the Math Mammoth workbook series) is offering Quotations from Shakespeare’s...
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Hooray for (Math) History
Photo by Benimoto. John Napier foiled a thief with the aid of logic and a black rooster. For this and other acts of creative problem solving, his servants and neighbors suspected him of witchcraft....
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Quotations XXII: Six Months in the Dark
[Photo by frozenchipmunk.] School is in session, which means I am once again searching out pithy, inspirational quotations for my chalkboard. Some recent tidbits… The more I work and practice, the...
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Free Learning Tools, Games, and More
[Photo by ♥Sage (resting... finally!).] Browsing the Internet, I came across a slideshow called 101 Free Learning Tools, which explores “the idea that there is at least one excellent free learning...
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Salman Khan: Reinventing Education
This reminds me how many years it’s been since I updated my Math Resources page. Khan Academy is just one of many links I’ve been meaning to add. Someday, I’ll get caught up on the urgent stuff and...
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