Black Hole

This picture made the front page of the New York Times this morning. It is not very often that a science experiment makes the headlines in a great newspaper, particularly above the fold. It is a thrilling discovery. “The First Image of a Black Hole.” The concept of black holes, hundred years old, came out …

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Math is Hard

In a magazine published for college trustees, a recent short article captured the latest statistics from the ACT and SAT tests. The downward trend was notable especially in math. For example, “Forty-nine percent of the class of 2018 that took the SAT (2 million students) showed a strong chance of getting at least a C …

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A Very Good Year

I feel most fortunate when I have a year I get to work on a new great idea in it. This past year has thus been one of good fortune. Some great ideas can appear huge from the start, covering wide swaths of life, and some, at first, can seem small, almost insignificant initially, but …

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ATMNE 2018

Are Your Students Ready Are you and your students ready to learn mathematics and problem solving in a digital way? You will be introduced to functional thinking, our problem solving strategy across the grade level. Agenda — Google Sheets Agenda — Excel  Workshop-Agenda-ATMNE-12.7.18

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Baseball and Math

If you are a Bostonian by address, birth, or just a connection, you can’t help but be full of pride this morning for your baseball team. The Red Sox were amazing, keeping us up late at night and giving us so much to cheer about in a time otherwise to often dreary. And if you …

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