Putting Asilomar into action

December 14, 2014

A week has passed since I went to the annual California Math Council conference at Asilomar. It was my first …

Infographic Project – 2014 Edition

December 5, 2014

The last time I had kids make charts about their lives, I was teaching middle school in Virginia and it was …

November 19, 2014

“What I’m going to ask you to do is watch a video. It’s a short video, made by me. You’re …

November 18, 2014

Last I left off, an ambitious group of kids had solved this question (that they asked themselves): There’s a projectile …

September 21, 2014

In my last post, a group of ambitious students had just figured out how to restrict the domain of a …

August 6, 2014

I’ve now read the New York Times Magazine article called “Why Do Americans Stink at Math?” twice. The whole article is …

August 4, 2014

I left off last post asking how one could restrict the domain and range of the graph on the left to look …

July 10, 2013

Sadly, a major reason I didn’t get this blog started sooner was that I couldn’t decide on a name. Even …

July 9, 2013

I’m Zack Miller. Even though I’m halfway around the world from my home in San Francisco, I’m thinking about my …