Dispatches from the Learning Lab: Why I Don’t Always Ask My Question
One of the many reasons I put myself in a math PhD program is that it is an intense full-time laboratory in which for me to examine my own learning process, and my experience as a participant in math...
View ArticleDispatches from the Learning Lab: Inauthentic Agreement
Here’s another one. It should be quick. When a student says, “Is it like this?” or the equivalent, I used to err on the side of “yes.” I.e. even if I wasn’t sure exactly what they were saying, but I...
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Dispatches from the Learning Lab: Partial Understanding
So here’s another one that I suppose is kind of obvious, but nonetheless feels like big, important news to me: It’s possible to only partly understand what somebody else is saying. Let me be more...
View ArticleWherein This Blog Serves Its Original Function
The original inspiration for starting this blog was the following: I read research articles and other writing on math education (and education more generally) when I can. I had been fantasizing (back...
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A Critical Language for Problem Design
I am at the Joint Mathematics Meetings this week. I had a conversation yesterday, with Cody L. Patterson, Yvonne Lai, and Aaron Hill, that was very exciting to me. Cody was proposing the development of...
View ArticleLinda Darling-Hammond on the International Teaching Survey
Just wanted to make sure you didn’t miss Linda Darling-Hammond’s piece in the Huff Post on the results of the most recent Teaching and Learning International Survey. This is real talk about the kinds...
View ArticleUhm sayin
Dan Meyer’s most recent post is about how in order to motivate proof you need doubt. This is something I was repeatedly and inchoately hollering about five years ago. As usual I’m grateful for Dan’s...
View ArticleLessons from Bowen and Darryl
At the JMM this year, I had the pleasure of attending a minicourse on “Designing and Implementing a Problem-Based Mathematics Course” taught by Bowen Kerins and Darryl Yong, the masterminds behind the...
View ArticlePershan’s Essay on Cognitive Load Theory
Just a note to point you to Michael Pershan’s motherf*cking gorgeous essay on the history of cognitive load theory, centered on its trailblazer, John Sweller. Read it now. I’m serious. I tend to think...
View ArticleMy work on the AMS Teaching & Learning Blog
I don’t know why I didn’t think to tell you this earlier, but: in 2019 I joined the editorial board of the American Mathematical Society’s Teaching & Learning Blog, and I’ve written several pieces...
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