I was recently a guest on the The Stuyvesant Perspective, a podcast run by our school’s newspaper. I had fun talking with students about why people don’t like math, how teachers were handling remote learning, and what I thought about social media. And stick around for my recommendation at the end!
You can listen to the full interview here.
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A piece I wrote last year was selected for The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020, published by Princeton University Press. It’s an incredible and quite unexpected honor.
I have known about this for several months, but I was still a bit shocked to see this:
I’ve been writing about math and teaching for years, but I never dreamed of being included in a collection of “The Best Writing on Mathematics” alongside writers like Steven Strogatz, Erica Klarreich, and John Carlos Baez.
I’m grateful to the editor, Mircea Pitici, for selecting “On Your Mark, Get Set, Multiply” for the collection, and to everyone at Quanta Magazine, where the piece was originally published. I am very fortunate to write for Quanta, where I have incredible writers to learn from and an editor, Quanta’s founder and Editor-in-Chief Thomas Lin, who has invested a great deal of time and effort into helping me become a better writer.
You can learn more about Princeton University Press’s The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020 here.
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Tomorrow I’ll be on a panel discussing quantitative literacy as part of Media Literacy Week. The focus will be data and science misinformation, and the panel discussion will run as part of the National Science Teachers Association’s Teacher Tip Tuesdays series.
This is a joint project of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Education Development Center (EDC), and the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE). Registration is free, and you can find out more here.
UPDATE: You can find the full video of the webinar here.
I make a brief appearance in this NPR story about teaching using the coronavirus. In “Teacher Uses Coronavirus for Math Lessons”, reporter Emily Files profiles a teacher in Wisconsin who is using the coronavirus epidemic to get his middle school math students thinking about data and rates of change. Files interviewed me a about the lesson I wrote for the New York Times Learning Network on “Dangerous Numbers” (available here).
On January 24th I will be participating in a free webinar titled “How to STEM Up Your Classroom” with the NSTA/NCTM National STEM Teacher Ambassadors.
The webinar will feature a number of different perspectives on STEM in the classroom. The teacher ambassadors hail from different states and territories across the country, and work in a variety of settings: high school, K-6, administration, district intervention, policy, and more.
It’s a wonderful group of dedicated teachers with a wealth of expertise to share, and it should be a fun 90 minutes. You can learn more about the free webinar, and register, here.
UPDATE: The full video of the webinar can be found here.
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