ATMNE Annual Conference, October 29 and 30, 2015 in Portland, Maine Spreadsheet Math: A Powerful Tool for the Learning and Practice of Mathematics Friday October 30, 2:15 – 3:15. Come and learn about the power of spreadsheets as tools to encourage creativity and challenge for students of all ages and abilities to learn mathematical …
My fortune cookie today read, “If you’re happy, you’re successful.” Usually for me that is true, but not today. For during that same lunch my iPhone told me that Lynn Steen had died. I never had the good fortune to meet him in person or to even talk with him, but I loved him and …
To make its workers more productive, the Western Electric Company, makers of phones and other parts for the Bell Telephone System, conducted one of the great scientific experiments of all time. The researchers increased the brightness of the lighting at a plant in Hawthorne, Illinois just outside of Chicago, incrementally, while measuring worker output. They …
I just looked at a wonderful short video by Sir Ken Robinson on creativity at https://youtu.be/63NTB7oObtw in which he describes creativity as a process that produces something original that has value. At What if Math we seek to make learning a creative experience, a process that enables every student to produce something original that has …
When I was a kid, Sundays in the summer were car washing days. The stores were closed. The roads were generally quiet. And we took out the hose and the pail, filled them with water and dishwashing soap then rubbed, scrubbed, and waxed the family car…or later our own car…beautiful again. Sundays have already substantially …
