If you’ve followed me at all in the past several years, you probably know that I often hear people say they just aren’t math people. You also likely know how I feel about that. I mean, that’s really why this website exists…to provide resources and ideas to help you understand how math works. Some of you will use the information to…
I once had a college student who made it his mission to prove to me that he could go an entire day without using math. This was not a just out of high school kid sitting in my math class. This was what the higher education world calls an “adult” learner or a “returning” learner; someone who already had some life…
Can you believe we are already a third of the way through the alphabet? When I first had the idea to create a mathabet on the podcast (and include the discussion here on the blog), I had absolutely no idea what it would look like and how it would go. And here we are, already on the letter I. Something funny…
I have a question for you. Where have you used mathematical thinking or interacted with mathematical ideas today? If you are new here, you might be thinking you haven’t. That you aren’t a math person and you definitely don’t use math regularly. If you’ve been around the podcast for a while or if you’ve been following me on Instagram, you might…
Can you believe we are already on the seventh letter of the alphabet? I know. It seems weird for a math blog to be talking about the alphabet, but I got this idea a few months ago when I was clearing out some things in my home office and ran across a math alphabet book I kept on my classroom bookshelf…
If you are a faithful reader (or podcast listener), I hope you are enjoying this trip through the alphabet, mathematics style. If you are new here, welcome! I’m so glad you found my corner of the internet and I hope you read something here that makes you pause and get curious about your beliefs around math. You know I like to…
Before we start talking about mathematical ideas beginning with E today, let’s address the elephant in the room. Elephant begins with E, so I think it’s appropriate here, don’t you? Maybe you’ve been reading or tuning in from the beginning with this post or with episode 1 of the podcast and this idea has been running through your mind the whole…
Hello, my friend! If you are new here, welcome. I’m so glad you found me and I hope you find value in what you read here today. If you’ve been here before, welcome back! I am honored you choose to continue this conversation by joining in for another post. I began the I See Math People podcast just over a year…
Welcome back, my friend! Today we are chatting about some mathematical ideas beginning with the letter C that you probably encounter on a regular basis. I had the idea for this mathematical alphabet several weeks ago when I was clearing out some boxes and came across a book I kept on my middle school classroom bookshelf for my students to read.…
This post is brought to you by the letter B. If you are new around here, I recently came across a math alphabet book I had on my middle school classroom book shelf and decided this idea would be fun for the podcast…and here on the blog…so in each episode this season I’m talking about a few math ideas that begin…
I first had the idea for this series of posts and podcast episodes while cleaning out my home office. Clearing out might be a better term for it because I’ve been transforming a bedroom that used to belong to our son into an inspiring work space for myself. While I generally find the acts of painting and wallpapering tedious, I have…
Let me start with a little story. At my day job, I get some “use it or lose it” leave days. Last year, I gifted myself some three day weekends at the end of the semester. I know I spent one weekend visiting my friend who lives at the beach and I really don’t remember what I did with the other…
I’ve already shared with you some ways patterns show up in nature, both visual patterns and number patterns, like the Fibonacci sequence in some previous episodes. In today’s discussion, I want to focus on how symmetry, an important mathematical concept, shows up in the great outdoors. There are a few different kinds of symmetry out there in the world, and you…
I have only a couple of real memories from when I was in kindergarten. One of them happened at lunchtime. I had my little lunch box in my hands and I was standing in the line waiting to get my milk carton. Except, I must have been energetic that day. I don’t remember what I was doing, but I do remember…