Category Archives: Math Education

Glean PEMDAS: Order of Operations

21 September 2011

Greetings, ordered educators! I thought you might like to learn a little more about Glean PEMDAS, which is one of our newest tools for teaching order of operations. National test scores, research literature and anecdotal evidence (conversations with math teachers) all point out that kids struggle to make sense of …

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Steven Strogatz on Math Learning

3 February 2011

All, Following on yesterday’s post about math learning, you might be interested in this 15 part series on math in the NY Times by Cornell applied math professor Steven Strogatz. He uses some info from “A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art …

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You Can Count on Monsters (or how to make complex things simple)

2 February 2011

Greetings all, Isn’t it great when someone forwards you something interesting, and you investigate – only to discover something even greater? Here’s a fine example – and it has to do with making math accessible and fun. In this case, Albert Liau forwarded me a link to an NPR story …

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Hard Math: A Chinese Perspective

6 April 2010

Greetings, mathaholics and mathphobics, At PLML, we’re very lucky to have assistance from Nan Ding, a Graduate student at Harvard whose expertise is – surprise! – math.  She is sharing her insights as we develop our understanding and strategy around math, and helping us develop a system that we can …

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