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Projective Math Identities

I’m tired of students and colleagues telling me they’re not a “math person.” A little research into the subject reveals that in fact, everyone has more or less the same innate mathematical ability....

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Messing Around with Math

Here’s a puzzle that my office mate shared over the cubicle wall last week. Now, Guttman is unconventional in the sense that I share cubicle space with English professors, a librarian, secretaries to...

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MEC Math Club

My colleague Jared Warner and I will be presenting today at the Medgar Evers College Math Club. The talk is about a gentrification-themed board game that we designed to teach proportional reasoning in...

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Good Ideas in Teaching Precalculus And…

I’m giving a talk early tomorrow (Friday) morning at the “Good Ideas in Teaching Precalculus“conference at Rutgers. I’ll be talking about a hybrid Precalculus course that I created at Guttman, which...

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Innovative Practices in Developmental Mathematics

I’m giving a talk tomorrow at LaGuardia Community College’s new Innovative Practices in Developmental Mathematics conference. This is another talk about the gentrification-themed board game that Jared...

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MAA Metro NYC Talk

Jared Warner and I will be giving another talk this Sunday about our gentrification-themed board game. If you’re going to be around at the MAA Metropolitan New York Section Meeting, come find us in...

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MathFest Talk

I’m giving a talk at MathFest today about the hybrid Precalculus class I taught last Spring. If you’re around, come say hi. My talk is at 1:45pm in Union D. As usual, the slides are available below.

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Messing Around in GeoGebra

This blog has basically become a last-minute repository for all my talks. I’m not happy about that; I’m going to start blogging for real again, but in the meantime, here’s another talk for the...

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Space Range-r

Today, I’m releasing an early prototype of a new math game I’m making in GeoGebra. Introducing… Space Range…er. (It’s a pun. Get it?) The idea for this game has been rolling around in the back of my...

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Gentrification at a Mile High

I’m giving another talk this Saturday, November 19 from 2:15-3:05pm at AMATYC‘s annual conference in Denver. I’m excited about attending a conference that’s focused exclusively on math education at the...

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