{"id":2221,"date":"2016-08-09T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2016-08-09T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:31:48","slug":"back-to-school-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/blogonmathblogs\/2016\/08\/09\/back-to-school-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-to-School Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have spent almost every August since I was five years old getting ready for the beginning of school, so it\u2019s a little strange this year not to be shopping for binders and pencils, buying textbooks, or preparing lesson plans. But if you are still subject to the school calendar, don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ve got you covered. Today I want to share some of my favorite math education blogs and websites for math learners from grade school through college.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are a boatload of blogs by math educators at every level of schooling, so I\u2019m not going to attempt anything approaching a comprehensive list. These are a few that stand out to me personally, but there are tons of other great ones out there as well, and I’d love your suggestions in the comments. I also have to recommend Math Teachers at Play<\/span><\/a>, a monthly math education blog carnival, or the Twitter hashtag #MTBoS<\/span><\/a> (math Twitter blog-o-sphere) as places to find like-minded people to talk with and blogs to follow. And of course you can check out the Math Education category<\/span><\/a> right here on our blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kiddos<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Bedtime Math<\/a><\/span> Why should stories get all the fun? Bedtime math gives parents and kids daily prompts to help engage with math in an open-ended way outside the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Play Math!<\/a><\/span> Denise Gaskins, who organizes the Math Teachers at Play blog carnival, also has a blog with ideas for math play with young kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s Math Page<\/a><\/span> Mike Lawler shares videos of him talking and playing with math with his two kids as well as other posts about doing math with his kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

Natural Math<\/a><\/span> Maria Droujkova is probably best known for her advocacy of the idea that 5-year-olds can do calculus. She and her crew have courses, books, a blog<\/span><\/a>, and an online forum for people who want to have fun doing math with little kids<\/span><\/p>\n

Tweens and Teens<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere<\/a> Sam J. Shah’s blog is one of my favorite math teacher blogs because of the number of times he has genuinely nerdsniped<\/a> me.<\/p>\n

dy\/dan<\/a>\u00a0Dan Meyer is a former high school math teacher who now works for Desmos<\/a>. He blogs about math education, especially good lesson planning and how to get students thinking mathematically without frustrating them too much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finding Ways<\/a><\/span> It\u2019s hard to describe Fawn Ngyuen\u2019s blog. She posts about her life story, teaching math, and social justice, but it\u2019s all mixed up together. If you don\u2019t read anything else I link to in this post, read her poem irrelevant<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Vilson<\/a><\/span> I hadn\u2019t heard of Jos\u00e9 Vilson until I started seeing tweets about his keynote address<\/span><\/a> at TwitterMathCamp<\/span><\/a> in July. It was clear from those tweets that his presentation got people thinking and talking about race and justice in their classrooms. He is the founder of EduColor<\/span><\/a>, an advocacy group for equity in education, and his perspective is valuable for anyone who wants to work for justice in their schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Math=Love<\/a> Sarah Carter, a high\u00a0school math teacher, shares classroom materials and fun activities. I enjoyed using the 1-4-5 square puzzle<\/a> with my high school math program students last summer.<\/p>\n

Math Munch<\/a><\/span> Every week, this blog has a post with three fun finds from the mathematical internet. They have a mix of types of math they highlight, but there is usually something interactive in every post, and they share interviews with a lot of cool mathematicians too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Math With Bad Drawings<\/a><\/span> Ben Orlin\u2019s accurately-named blog explores issues in math and math education with thought-provoking metaphors and entertaining drawings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Honner<\/a><\/span> Patrick Honner is a high school math teacher who has recently been focusing on the many problems with the New York state Regent\u2019s exam math questions (hello, overly pointy sine wave graph<\/span><\/a>). He also posts more uplifting fare, including gorgeous math photos<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teaching\/Math\/Culture<\/a><\/span> Ilana Horn researches math teaching and learning in secondary schools. She focuses on inclusion and cultural awareness.<\/span><\/p>\n

College and beyond<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Launchings<\/a><\/span> David Bressoud posts monthly in this MAA blog about college math teaching, especially research related to the calculus sequence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Math3ma<\/a><\/span> I\u2019ve written about math grad student Tai-Danae Bradley\u2019s blog here before<\/span><\/a>, but her excellent post for people getting ready for their qualification exams<\/span><\/a> is so good I just have to share it again.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Teaching and Learning Mathematics<\/a><\/span> This AMS blog has posts about math teaching from K-12 but primarily focuses on college classrooms. I have especially enjoyed their posts about active learning and creating positive environments that are conducive to learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

PhD plus epsilon<\/a><\/span> This is another AMS blog. It is not exclusively devoted to education, but the early-career mathematicians who write it often post about their teaching struggles and successes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, if all of this other stuff gets too heavy, there\u2019s always Math Professor Quotes<\/span><\/a> to give you a laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n

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