Today, I attended an ancient ceremony. It is called “Hooding”. An elaborate and beautiful hood is given to students who have completed their scholarship and are ready to receive a doctoral degree. The Hooding Ceremony at Lesley University today with its rich pageant and sweet music took me back to the 12th and 13th centuries …
NCTM Annual Conference April 15-18 We were thrilled to have had over 250 people come to our session and with their response and questions. As we promised, here is the PDF and PowerPoint that we presented. We look forward to implementing the suggestions and to seeing the results as you try What if Math with …
What if I could give you a magic wand to wave over our educational system and make it fulfill our dreams for our children? What would you have it do? I find this question stumps most people. We all know education in America is far from what we either want or need it to be. …
If a mathematician were asked what these two numbers had in common, she might wonder if they were both primes. They are not. A gambler might consider them lucky numbers because one of the prime factors of 209 is 11 (as you could find out by asking google) and 11 goes with 7. But that, …
There are really two kinds of mathematics we do every day. I like to call one headmath and the other handmath, one is the mental arithmetic and problem solving we all have to do and the other is the math on paper or more likely today, if you are not a student, on computers. Though …
