A New Way to Teach Math

I firmly believe that math can and should be learned through life and interest. I’ve written a few posts about that but today I want to discuss a step in the right direction between the way we teach math in schools now and my belief of a more natural way. It’s about the belief that …

Math PART 2

This is part 2 of a series about math. The series will be in 2 parts: PART 1–fascinating math concepts and ideas PART 2–real math I don't like to break things into subjects in my life. It's all just part of life and learning. But I can understand the use for that in record keeping …

Math PART 1

This is part 1 of a series about math. The series will be in 2 parts: PART 1--fascinating math concepts and ideas PART 2--real math I don't like to break things into subjects in my life. It's all just part of life and learning. But I can understand the use for that in record keeping …

Doing Instead of Doing-Over

Recently I've been reading this book, Measurement by Paul Lockhart. The book is about exploring math as beautiful, interesting ideas. It's about understanding geometry through what shapes do and how they interact. I'm enjoying it especially because I know that anyone could read it: someone who didn't have much formal math education and someone who had. …