Category Archives: Math Education

Computers in Math Education

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Sarah K. Salmon

A guest post by Kyle Cluver: In Conrad Wolfram’s video, Teaching kids real math with computers, he discusses the interesting topic of mathematics in education versus real world mathematics. He argues that math education is all about calculating and that this … Continue reading →

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The Man Who Knew Infinity (Mathematical Movie!)

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Irving Dai

Hi! For this post, I thought I would take a break from posting math riddles and take a brief moment to draw your attention to an exciting new movie premiering in the United States this week – “The Man Who … Continue reading →

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Getting Students Used to Abstract Concepts

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Mohammed Kaabar

According to my experience teaching limits in Calculus for Life Scientists, it is really difficult for students to understand limits because they do not have the required knowledge on which to build the concept. I have noticed that even if they can handle and … Continue reading →

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Pixar in a Box: My New Answer to “What’s this good for?”

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Sarah K. Salmon

Questions like “Why do we need to know this?” or “When am I ever going to use this in real life?” seem to show up every time I put the definition of the derivative on the board in a calculus … Continue reading →

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Hookups, Dating, and Markov Chains: Teaching Matrices so that Your Students Won’t Hate Them, Part III

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Matthew Simonson

Having taught your students how to visualize matrix multiplication and why performing this bizarre dance of arithmetic could help make society a better place, the next logical step might be to raise a matrix to a power, say, to help your … Continue reading →

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