Education, Race, and Violence
I just wrapped up attending the NCTM Annual Conference in Washington DC. As always, I’m feeling inspired and fulfilled, overflowing …
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Transforming a Math Program, Pt. 3: Assessing what we value
“Assess what you value; value what you assess” – Grant Wiggins Last we left off, I set out to institutionalize …
Transforming a Math Program, Pt. 2: Nesting problems in projects
In my previous post, I wrote about a journey that began 18 months ago, where I intended to tweak my school network’s project-based …
Transforming a Math Program, Pt. 1: A simple change…
About 18 months ago, I hung up my teaching shoes and became a “Teacher on Special Assignment” for my charter school …
Crossing My Fingers for Conference Season
Last year at this time, I applied to speak at two conferences (NCTM and CMC-N) with this proposal: Tech in …
Candy Combinatorics
I’m spending Christmas with my girlfriend’s family this year, and her mom reaches into a Costco-sized bag of M&Ms and …
Procedures without understanding
In April, I attended the NCTM conference in Boston. I was staying with Jake, a college friend, at his place …
Biggest takeaways from NCTM Boston (one month later)
I’ve been marinating on NCTM for a good month now, and it has been interesting to go back and read …
Curiosity is contagious
Once I became a math teacher, I started to see math problems everywhere. Just this week, my local sandwich shop’s …
Chris Rock, on teaching (Part 2)
“I bore easily. Not because I’m on some spectrum, but because I hear so many conversations again and again… A …
A Math Education That Matters 