Vlorbik on Math Ed

“…ascribing more credibility to practices that most mathematicians would be horrified by”: Lefty on “reform” (& Andrew Hodges).Google’s equation editor at Teaching College Math Technology Blog.Gowers has come back to life.

I’ve just printed out No Common Denominator: The Preparation of Elementary Teachers in Mathematics by American’s Education Schools, a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality. I’ll read it over the weekend. I learned about it in this KTM thread. (I dropped ‘em from the blogroll … never said [...]

Michael J. South’s fulcrum.org appears to’ve been mostly about math ed; the little I’ve looked at so far looks pretty useful. It’s in good old-fashioned HTML, so you’ll have to adjust the size of your window to read it easily (this seems to have become something of a lost art). He’s currently blogging [...]

Here’s a recent accidental post on “Fuzziness” in Kitchen Table Math. I dropped KTM from the blogroll last week: there’s very little math there these days and you’ve gotta draw the line somewhere (one needs a reason to endure all the self-righteously overprivileged whining …). Evidently this post was intended for a new [...]

Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (Carter, Tapia, Papakonstantinou).Social Science Statistics Blog.

J. Fisher’s “Wu and I” was inspired by an ongoing series of posts by Alison in KTM (and conveniently indexes some of his own related posts [in TextSavvy]).H. Wu himself is of course a Math Ed luminary—of all living math professors known to me, the one with the most extensive & potentially-useful contributions in [...]

Subtracting mixed numbers: A cry for help (at LPM!).“2 step equations”, at Math Stories.

C. Johnson on an amazing math teacher at KTM.S. Dehaene profiled in The New Yorker.

Sol remembers math camp.Isabel on combinatorial quotients.

Was Ulam a creationist? (Zeno.)