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How to Start Your Own Math Circle or Enrichment Program
Traditionally, math enrichment programs are run by professional mathematicians with an interest in education or by teachers with an interest in math competitions, but for most other people the idea of...
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Trigonometry the Nonboring Way
Few subjects have such a reputation for being boring as trigonometry. Most students who study it miss both the historical context and the interesting applications because most textbooks are too dry...
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All too often school teaches us to “guess and check” when a simple exact calculation would lead to the right answer. Guessing the answer to a one variable equation may not further our mathematical...
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The Fascinating World of Preschool Mathematics Education and Enrichment
Teaching math to young kids who don’t know how to read, write, or count is a complicated task. Providing these kids with mathematical enrichment seems like an even more daunting task. Unfortunately,...
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Computer Science Unplugged: A Computational Thinking Curriculum Without the...
The chorus calling for teaching computer science to all children seems to be getting louder by the day. Even the White House seems to think that programming is the new literacy. Programming is clearly...
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A Comprehensive Guide To Teaching K-8 Mathematics
One of the effects of a highly decentralized education system in the US is the lack of a single guide to teaching any single subject. In mathematics, especially at the K-8 level, this has been an...
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Quadratics Done Simply and Properly
A common middle school algebra topic like quadratics is all too often spread across hundreds of confusing textbook pages and several years of tedious instruction. It’s as if the subject is a mix of...
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Moebius Noodles: A Mathematical Playground for Young and Old
Contrary to popular belief, mathematics is not an activity that requires textbooks, calculators, and years of training. Because it consists of such fundamental notions as symmetry, classification,...
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A Book on Modern Mathematics for Elementary School Students
Sadly, professional mathematicians play a mostly decorative role in shaping mathematics education. Research is simply a much more attractive activity than the politics of education reform and...
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Richard Feynman’s Great Physics Lectures are Finally Available Online
Sometimes it takes decades for works that have had an immense impact to become easily and cheaply available, and this is especially true in the sciences. The difficulty of making a science or math...
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