Slip-sliding Away: A Summer Math Dilemma
Beverly Hills Math Factor instructor Jesse Meyen assists students on the iPad Summer Slide. Brain Drain. Learning Leak. While it may sound like I’m describing a decaying water park, in reality these...
View ArticleMath Class: Student Perspective 2
Photography by Klara Kim Math always came to me quite easily in grade school and middle school. I just never was able to find a way to actually motivate myself to learn it most of the time. The...
View ArticleTeaching Math without Words Can Be Done
It has often been said that math is a language all to itself, that it is the universal language because speakers of all other languages share it. Okay. I accept that adage. Even though I believe...
View ArticleBooks Every Math Teacher Should Read
Photography by Jon Hayes I’ve been doing a lot of reading this summer, and I’ve come across a few books in the past few months that I think every math educator should read. A Mathematician’s Lament by...
View ArticleMath Through the Years
In a few months, I am beginning my liberal arts education. According to Merriam-Webster, a liberal arts education consists of “college or university studies (as language, philosophy, literature,...
View ArticleAre We Listening to the Students?
Here is a video project conceived and created by middle school students in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
View ArticleHow to Optimize Your Study Time for the SAT or ACT
Photography by Alberto G. Taking the SAT or ACT may not be the highlight of your senior year of high school, but it certainly ranks near the top of the priority list. Colleges will be shopping for...
View ArticleMonty Python and the Quadratic Shrubbery
If you have taught your math students about perimeter and area, if you are ready to present them with an application challenge, and if they are into Pythonesque comedy (Do you know many middle...
View ArticleHow I Became a Math Tutor: A True Story
Two months ago we posted an article entitled: We MUST Engage Our Kids. Here we listed what we considered the necessary ingredients for a teacher to conduct a successful math class. These were passion,...
View ArticleMoving Young Minds with Middle School Math Apps
With over 650,000 apps in the App Store, how do you determine what’s really worth your time, and in some cases, money? As a middle school math teacher and summer math enrichment program director, I’m...
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