During the first days of summer, I usually catch up with my guilty pleasure TV shows and get a few projects around the house completed. However, I found myself jumping into my first book “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart. It is sold on Amazon, but I also found a PDF here. Someone on Twitter had posted a quote from …
NCTM 2019 San Diego
It’s Monday night and my head is still reeling from all that I learned, experienced, and witnessed at NCTM San Diego. Whenever I go to such a big conference, I just act like a sponge and soak it all in. NCTM is a place where we all learn from each other. I haven’t been to the NCTM Annual conference since …
Making sense of conversions
My son, Jared, is in 6th grade. He has told me he thinks it’s “cool” that I’m teaching 6th grade too. According to him, we have stuff to talk about. I can finally help him with his homework. (Really? Like I’ve never been able to help you with any of your other homework?!? What the what?!?!?). Of course I left …
Deep thoughts…
Last weekend, I attended a memorial service and a birthday party on the same day. The range of emotions went from sadness and tears to laughter and smiles –all within hours of each other. Of course during the service, my mind started wondering to all sorts of places. The deceased was a father of a teacher who had encouraged his children …