Baseball and Math
If you are a Bostonian by address, birth, or just a connection, you can’t help but be full of pride this morning for your baseball… Read more
Curiosity
The words curious and curiosity do not appear in the Mathematics Common Core Standards document, yet they are arguably the most important words in mathematics… Read more
Function Machines
I do not know who, when, or where this iconic mathematical representation was developed. It is, however, one of the most powerful and ubiquitous of… Read more
Functional Thinking
We call our problem-solving process, functional thinking. When we apply functional thinking to digital age problem solving, we find a few fundamental models give us… Read more
Getting Started
Our goal is to enable every student to use mathematics to become a better creative problem solver. In this digital age, awash in data and… Read more
Headmath vs. Handmath
There are really two kinds of mathematics we do every day. I like to call one headmath and the other handmath, one is the mental… Read more
Math as a Laboratory Science
Math is not only the last letter in STEM or STEAM, it is the only one that we do not picture as experimental. We don’t… Read more
Personalized Learning
These two words have caught the imagination of educators and parents. They were designed to be the frames for talking about the value of digital… Read more
Personalizing Learning
Envisioning technology that reinvents our schools not automates them should, I believe, be our goal and our dream for personalizing learning. Read more
Stand and Deliver
It was an appropriate title for the movie about Jaime Escalante and it is an appropriate title for the role that teachers continue to play.… Read more
The Problem with MOOCs
When MOOCs were the rage in higher education, I asked my friend David Kaiser, a physicist and professor of the history of science at MIT,… Read more
Welcome to What if Math
Three years ago I read a wonderful book by Keith Devlin called The Man of Numbers. It told the story of Leonardo of Pisa who was… Read more
What Algebra?
Each summer, as schools get ready for a new school year, the question returns, “Should we be teaching algebra to our children?” it seems to… Read more