Stuck In My Own Perspective

In a recent Teach Like A Pirate chat (#TLAP) Dave Burgess and I responded to a question independently and identically, causing me to respond with this. Perspective is everything. I have a really cool niece named Anna who’s 13. She got the chance to fly with her dad (hereafter known as …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Two Worlds Collide

Yesterday I presented two sessions at the High Point GAFE Summit at High Point Regional High School in Wantage, NJ. (resources available here)   22 years ago I graduated from High Point Regional High School in Wantage, NJ. Since graduating, I moved to Illinois, taught math for 13 years, coached cross …

The Cavatappi Challenge…Why the people at Desmos are simply the best!

I’ve talked about desmos in the past, but they, and specifically their founder Eli Luberoff (@eloberoff) have simply outdone themselves this time. I like to graph food using Desmos, as you can see from my Food Graphs page above. Food makes for the most incredible array of possible mathematical shapes. …