I was eight years old when my father graduated from college. He’d spent the better part of a decade working all day, going to school at night, and trying to manage three young boys somewhere...
http://modelwithmathematics.com/2019/03/what-do-we-mean-by-real-world/
I couldn’t be in San Francisco last week for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute’s workshop, “Critical Issues in Mathematics Education 2019,” which focused on mathematical modeli...
http://modelwithmathematics.com/2019/03/sorry-sol-garfunkel-dan-meyers-not-even-wrong/
Our posts this year have been a bit sparse as Michelle and I have spent most of our free time continuing work on Model with Mathematics, our text on the art of mathematical modeling under develop...
http://modelwithmathematics.com/2018/03/ncsmnctm-position-statement-on-stem-education/
Some time ago, I had the pleasure of spending part of my summer working with a local high school teacher (Chuck Biehl), an undergraduate mathematics education major (Alexandrea Hammons), and a ma...
Well, the last few months of 2016 went by much too quickly and unfortunately left me with little time to post. But, it’s a New Year, and I’m anxious to get back to talking about mathematical...
Today was the last day of this year’s NSTA STEM Forum and bright and early tomorrow morning I’ll be headed back to Delaware. I want to thank NSTA for a great conference and I want to especial...
This week, I’m in Denver Colorado for the 5th annual STEM Forum and Exposition organized by NSTA. Later this week, on behalf of NCTM, I’ll be running two short “NCTM sessions” on mathem...
This post was inspired by a recent twitter conversation between @woutgeo, @ddmeyer, @cheesemonkeysf (cool handle!), and myself. The 120-character at a time conversation revolved around a comment ...
Just spent a great week at NCSM 2016 in Oakland, CA. Wish we could have stuck around for NCTM 2016 across the bay, but sadly, not in the cards this year. Today, I thought I’d share a bit about ...
If there were a top-ten list of “things that make math teachers cringe,” the question “When will we ever use this?” would surely be at the top. That’s pretty independent of whether you ...
http://modelwithmathematics.com/2016/02/this-youll-use-everywhere/