I did a 4-week math teacher professional development this summer: 21st Century Math 2025. I participated in it also in 2023, its first year, and really loved it. I highly recommend it for math teac…| Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere
On Thursday, after school, I hopped in an Uber to the airport. I was flying to a conference, the “Teaching Contemporary Mathematics” conference (TCM) held at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. I think I’ve been at least twice over my career, maybe three times, and always found it to be a really […]| Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere
I had a thought that just occurred to me and I wanted to archive it before I forgot it. I’ll probably forget that it is even here at all, and nothing will come of it, but I had a thought about developing a new one-semester course for juniors and seniors at my school. It would […]| Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere
For a month this summer, I paid $30 to get an Alamo Drafthouse Movie Pass. Alamo is a movie theater that allow serves food and drinks. What the Movie Pass allows you to do is watch a movie every day (and you only pay a $1.89 service fee). It is summer and I figured why […]| Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere
Throughout the month of July 2023, I participated in a PD experience that was unique to me. Justin Lanier, a former math teacher turned professional mathematician, held a PD he developed called “21st Century Mathematics” and the ultimate goal was “To grow as mathematicians, both for our own enjoyment and for the benefit of our […]| Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere