“Telling math stories: Math makes me feel happy!”
This is a ‘throw-back Thursday’ story – one that I have remembered as I scroll through peoples’ stories of their math exploits, experiences, challenges, and learning on social media. It...
as a respondent, who was given an elicitation tool, from the researcher, …a struggle to let you write me…
…a struggle to let you write me… do I trust1 you?and you, me?do I trust you to do the right thingand inspire confidence?or do I trust you to do the wrong...
…thinking about political philosophies…
My daily dose of political philosophy… (and something that made me laugh out loud on the train! :-). Written in 1962, sounds and feels quite relevant today…) “In the United...
“I could never do math”
As a teacher of mathematics I hear this almost EVERY TIME I introduce my self to another person. “OH! you know math, I could never do math”. Here’s a story I...
The acceptance and dismissal of theories; picking the theories you like?
If you believe the theories of mathematics presented by a university researcher/teacher who proves and uses those theories every day in his/her/their work, and which are presented to you for...
“ ;-) 10. History is a branch of mathematics. So is Literature. Economics is a branch of religion. (Let it sit for a moment… A little bit longer…) ”
— from an alien to humans, in “The Humans”, p. 271, by Matt Haig