Last night I gave a talk about growth mindset research at the Global Math Department. They just posted the recording, here, and I previously shared links to some of the research we discussed last n…| Teaching With Problems
I have no idea what to name this game. Here are several ideas for names, and the ideas will probably give you a sense of what the game is about: Card Capture; Guess the Back; Collect Points for Kno…| Teaching With Problems
I. I’m not saying that I’m Mr. Fun or anything, but I like a good time. Well, a good quiet time, but my point is that I’m not exactly a dark and brooding personality — most …| Teaching With Problems
It is frequently mentioned that people in education are not interested in asking classroom teachers to do things in education. Sometimes this is stupid. Sometimes it makes sense. Here’s the q…| Teaching With Problems
I. The article is “The two cultures of mathematics in ancient Greece,” and it’s by Markus Asper, a contemporary historian. Let’s read it, as it highlights some tensions that…| Teaching With Problems
I. Last spring, Education Week published an article about calculus. It said: More than half of students who take calculus in high school come from families with a household income above $100,000 a …| Teaching With Problems
I’ve done this before and I’m doing it again. This blog is done, over, finished. No more posts. The reasoning is idiosyncratic, so I won’t bother getting into it. Basically, this …| Teaching With Problems
Question: Do you have any recommendations for good (i.e. accessible, useful, reasonable) readings on feedback? Answer: First I’ll get the self-recommendations out of the way. I did a blog ser…| Teaching With Problems
I learned some math today. What happened was during lunch I was trying problems on Alcumus and I came across a problem I absolutely hated. It went like this: The marching band has more than 100 mem…| Teaching With Problems
Thanks for pointing me to that paper. I wasn’t sure if this was worth blogging about, and I don’t even know if this is something that needs clarifying — maybe you already have hea…| Teaching With Problems
Meet Ana, a child who weaves baskets. From a young age, Ana had watched her family weave, and slowly she learned to make baskets herself. Eventually, she was taught how to make baskets in several d…| Teaching With Problems