Adding evens and odds has the same pattern as multiplying positive and negatives. I rediscovered this while playing cribbage – and keeping my eyes peeled for patterns! Continue Reading →
Do you try to integrate math in everything? Would you like to?How about doing some birthday math? Here’s some links to places to help celebrate your birthday with math. Continue Reading →
How did you learn math? At school? Probably not. It’s more likely that you learned skills for doing math at home, with a parent or grandparent. Continue Reading →
Imagine this… You’re at a a party. Someone asks you what you do. You say, “I’m an undertaker’s assistant. And what do you do?” They say they teach English. You say, “Oh wow. I have always HATED English. I can’t even read the street signs!” The guy a few feet away overhears this and joins… Continue Reading →
I remember being allowed in Jr. High to use the calculator to “check my work.” Soon after I learned that the books in High School had the answers in the back! It was like condoned cheating! How could I go wrong with the magic box and the answers given to me straight from the publisher?… Continue Reading →
Are you sick of being a prisoner to math anxiety, snide comments of math geeks and angry comments of other math haters? Declare your independence! Continue Reading →
We want the next generation to be better than the previous generation – including math. In order for them to improve, the previous generations must either die or shut their traps. Who wants to die? Not me! So here’s how to focus on getting rid of negative math-speak. Continue Reading →
I was at the Houston Museum of Natural Science last Saturday at the Real Pirates exhibit. Here’s the fun math thing I learned about cannon. Continue Reading →