Classroom Top Four – #4 Interests and Interesting Things
August 27, 2018, 12:00 amPrevious entries: #1 Course Evaluations, #2 Whiteboards and Furniture, and #3 Teacher Technology Use.
This one is short and sweet. And it totally depends on you. Share your nerdy math things with the students. Please. Students at any level should see how you enjoy the subject that you teach,...
Classroom Top Four – #3 Teacher Technology Use
August 24, 2018, 12:00 amOk, here we are after a full year between Classroom Top Four #2 and #3. Wow. Good news is that I have more refined opinions on this specific topic, partly because I changed schools and the friction of the change has made me more thoughtful about what I’d want in an ideal classroom.
Previous entrie...
Mathematician Once Removed
August 23, 2018, 12:00 amThis post is part of the Virtual Conference on Mathematical Flavors, and is part of a group thinking about different cultures within mathematics, and how those relate to teaching. Our group draws its initial inspiration from writing by mathematicians that describe different camps and cultures — fr...
Learn to Code through Math #learntocodethroughmath
March 20, 2018, 12:00 amThe #learntocodethroughmath project is something that I created sort of by accident. I see the audience for this project as someone who is somewhat comfortable with using Desmos to create math-artsy stuff with lists, functions, and parametric functions and is interested in learning how to code using...
The Rough-Draft Move
March 19, 2018, 12:00 amI’m baaaaaaack. My last post on this blog was six months ago, and that’s a shame. I’m shifting my “writing bucks” from the photo180 blog over to this blog. Some posts will feel a little photo180-y, but most will be more “fully featured”.
Removing friction from the learning cycle in a classroom...
PAEMST State Finalist
August 30, 2017, 12:00 amI’m happy to let you all know that I’m a New York State finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching (PAEMST). I worked on the application this past spring. I enjoyed the reflective nature of the application; it required a detailed description of a recorded lesso...
Classroom Top Four – #2 Whiteboards and Furniture
May 10, 2017, 12:00 amThis is the second in a series of four posts that describes my favorite things that I’ve done in the classroom to improve my teaching. The first post on Course Evaluations can be found here.
2. Whiteboards and Furniture
On my classroom photo blog, photo180.recursiveprocess.com, I’ve written ...
Classroom Top Four – #1 Course Evaluations
April 13, 2017, 12:00 amThis is the first in a series of four posts that describes my favorite things that I’ve done in the classroom to improve my teaching. This post was cross-posted on my photo 180 blog.
1. Course Evaluations
Have you ever tried to swim in a lap pool with your eyes closed? How long were you able...
Workflow: Processing -> Fiji -> 3D Print
December 6, 2016, 12:00 amThis is an extension off a previous workflow series featuring Processing and Fiji.
This 3D print has slices that represent a (linear) trip in the Julia Set from 0+0i to 0.32+0.64i. I wrote a Processing program to create the 400 Julia slices and then Fiji stitched the 2d images t...
Play with Math
October 17, 2016, 12:00 amLearning ∩ Play ∩ Math ∩ Art
The connection between learning math and playing with math has been on my mind lately. Another connection that I’ve been thinking about is the interplay between math and art. This morning I decided to merge these two thoughts. I originally tweeted under the hashtag #pl...