kitchen table math, the sequel

I have a piece on how special ed students are faring under the new Common Core Standards on the online  Atlantic :

I've just come across the best explanation of the "Don't think of elephants" effect I've ever read: Byrne is also r...

So last week I submitted the following list of questions prior to the high school administration's Common Core presentation: On math: ...

What do you all think of My Math from McGraw Hill? My Math is aligned to the CCSS and provides Differentiated Instruction through My Learnin...

I was searching for a transcript of Conjunction Junction when I came across the following exegesis of conjunctions , also entitled "Co...

In The Economist: Estonia’s government has commissioned Mr Wolfram’s consultancy in Oxfordshire to modernise maths courses for secondary-s...

John Mighton, the Canadian mathematician (and playwright) who created JUMP Math, has an article worth reading in the current issue of AMS N...

More bad news  on the Powerpoint curriculum

They've been keeping me busy . They've been keeping Allison busy, too. Allison on flipped classrooms Allison on her AP history...

It is fortunate for contemporary prophets that most of their predictions are as swiftly forgotten as made, for paper, while it may be used i...

As American  college completion rates continue to climb , George Will foresees a time when  society will sharply distinguish " between...

Fabulous comments on the Should math students explain their answer in words post . I'll try to get as many as I can pulled up front… ...

I love student malapropisms . I love student logic misfires just as much. From Ignorance is Blitz: Mangled Moments of History From Actua...

Complex information, such as that required for motor skills, can be learned implicitly, without awareness. [snip] Imagine you are ridin...

Have just come across this paper in my travels today: Apart from their reading difficulties, dyslexic subjects often suffer from a variety...

Debbie's pub date is coming up, and things are getting exciting. She's had incredible response to the book; the blurbs are incredib...

School teachers, for example, will, in the long run, probably be made obsolete by television, as blacksmiths were made obsolete by the auto...

I'm a huge fan of bad sci fi (Ed, too). I'm also a fan of funny writing about bad sci fi, which goes with the territory. Any day t...

Chris Christie January 9: Let me just clear something up, O.K., about my childhood friend David Wildstein. It is true that I met David in ...

I have been putting this off for too long, but now it's nearing completion, although we will have to update the forms when the 2013 numb...