The Contemporary Algebra Collection now contains 28 activities spread from basic math to exponential functions. All of...
Algebra
I’ve been spending the first 5-10 minutes of every 2-hour math class discussing graphs in the news...
I am often asked how to get learners to spend more time “exploring” in their learning rather...
I don’t even really know how to begin here. For the last three years I’ve been working...
Last week I gave a presentation at AMATYC about video games for learning algebra. As usual, Mat...
This is a short TED Talk by Rob Reid (The $8 billion iPad) that tries to infuse...
One of my former students (who is still a Twitter user) pointed me to this fantastic animation...
The “colored counter” method is an old tried-and-true method for teaching the concept of adding signed numbers....
I am at the Kansas City Math Technology Expo this weekend doing two talks. Today’s talk was...
In this post we liken finding the prime number factorization to the nucleotides that make up a...
The Sputnik Observatory, is dedicated to providing a venue for viewing and sharing ideas and philosophies of...
Finally, I’ve made a sequel to Funky Function Notation. Here is Intriguing Inverses. Feel free to use...
Just watched an amazing 7-minute TED talk from Sean Gourley on The Mathematics of War where an...
Today’s guest blogger is Derek Bruff, Assistant Director for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. Derek...
From xkcd: Maybe Common Craft can tackle Metrics in Plain English next?