Instant Relevance Book Published Today

Book Publishing Day! I’m ridiculously excited to announce that my book was published today on Amazon. It’s called Instant Relevance, Using Today’s Experiences in Tomorrow’s Lessons. Thank you to Alice Keeler for connecting me to Dave and Shelley Burgess who believed in me and my message and for provided the publishing …

I See Math, People

Ever wonder if you’re the only one who sees things differently? After years of teaching math and looking for real world applications to help my students connect the math to life, I’ve realized that this is entirely backwards. We should be looking for the math in the real world around …

Teaching Algebraic Thinking With Spreadsheets, Rube Goldberg Style

When I was teaching high school I developed a course called Senior Math Topics. It was a fourth year of math for future non-math majors. We incorporated history of math, classical problems, the math behind music, art, architecture, encryption, voting and machines. In particular, I had students build a Rube …

Mercury, not Freddie, not Rising, not Sable…but the real Mercury

This is me, in 1998, in a space suit. They say you have to dress for the job you want, so… As a math person with aspirations to become an astronaut one day (NASA application submitted!!) space related matters always catch my attention. So when Alice Keeler (@alicekeeler) sent me …

Teaching Math with Google Apps: A 4 in 1 Approach

One of the people I love talking to about teaching math is Alice Keeler (@alicekeeler), author of 50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom. She’s almost excited as I am about the direction math instruction is going…almost. So naturally when we collaborate on math teaching ideas, not only do we …

Problem Solving: 3 Ways

I was in a 3rd grade math classroom the other day and the teacher wrote a problem on the board for the students to solve. I was observing this teacher officially and she was nervous for some reason (post coming soon on observation for growth, not punishment!) Due to her …