Think back to math class for a minute. Any math class will do. When the teacher asked a question or presented you with a problem to solve, was it understood they were most often looking for an exact answer? The ONE correct solution. As someone who spent some years leading math classrooms, I know this answer is YES. It’s one of…
I often open the first day of math classes by asking students to use one word to describe the subject of mathematics. As you can imagine, the responses vary widely. Math is fun. Math is easy. Math is impossible. Math is numbers. Math is rules. Math is necessary. There are many, many more words I’ve seen students use to describe math.…
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…