Showing posts with label teacher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teacher. Show all posts
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Math Anxiety

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     Recent comments from a friend describing anxiety that seems to freeze his attempts to understand and use a new mathematical concept hav...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Poetry from a math teacher's son

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     In an earlier post I have noted how effectively mathematicians and their mathematics may be described by poets who are in the same fam...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Land without a square

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Here is a bit of light verse from the pen of John Updike (1932-2009). ZULUS LIVE IN LAND  WITHOUT A SQUARE      by John Updike       ...
Friday, January 10, 2014

The discipline of mathematics

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This poem remembers one of my students.        The Prince of Algebra       by JoAnne Growney        Madam Professor,        let me intro...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Teaching math (?maths) is complex

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     In the midst of a teaching career in Bloomsburg University I spent a year in an administrative position -- the school needed time to se...
Monday, September 10, 2012

It Crossed My Mind

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     In Elinor Gordon Blair --  my English teacher during my junior and senior years at Indiana Joint High School in Indiana, Pennsylvania ...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Tribute to four teachers

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Many people offer advice about education--and, in particular, about mathematics education.  I'm skeptical of general pronouncements beca...