Women Blogging on Math

Dan Meyer is doing a cool project called 101 Questions. It's not something that grabs me personally, but I think it will help lots of students connect to math. Elizabeth wondered why so many more men have posted videos and photos to the 101 Questions site (101qs.com) than women. Dan posted her question and asked for our thoughts - we're up to 48 responses. (One fascinating comment compared the site to video arcade games, and mentioned research that documents their greater appeal to boys.)

Someone hypothesized that there are lots more male math bloggers. Although that may be true, I know of many great math blogs by women, and offered to post a list. What I've compiled below comes from my Google Reader. If you know of any others (including your own!), please add them in the comments. I'll edit the list to include any that I like. As I perused my list, I noticed that the blog lists people include on their blogs often reflect their own gender. (There are substantially more women authors than men in my soon-to-be-published book, Playing with Math: Stories from Math Circles, Homeschoolers, and Passionate Teachers, so women definitely speak to me and my concerns.)

[Note: I've edited this a bunch since posting it. Good thing school is over, so I can explore new blogs.]

High School & College Level

• f(t) (of course Kate Nowak heads the list - Kate was my blogging mentor)
• 360 (Heather Lewis aka Xi, is one of the 2 authors)
• A Brand New Line (Sophie Germain)
• Albany Area Math Circle (Mary O'Keeffe)
• An "Old Math Dog" Learning New Tricks (Lisa Henry) 
• Aperiodical (Katie Steckles is one of the 3 authors)
• Between Me and the Door (Park Star) 
• Busynessgirl (Maria Andersen, technology queen)
• Cheesemonkey Wonders (Elizabeth)
• Drawing on Math (Tina)
• Educating Grace (Grace Chen)
• Fawn Nguyen
• Geometric Delights (Luyi, a math student) 
• Hana Mathematics Lover (Sadie Estrella)
• I hope This Old Train Breaks Down... (Mimi)
• Infinigons (Allison)
• Learning (by) Teaching (Julia Tsygan, Sweden)
• Learning to Fold (Ashli)
• Liz Durkin
• Math Teacher Mambo (Ms. Cookie)
• Maths Education and All That (Rebecca Hanson)
• Megan Hayes-Golding
• Mess or Math (Gili)
• Mind Body Mathematics (Elizabeth Jansen van Vuuren) 
• mssphillips (Sarah Phillips)
• Pedagogical Predicaments (Ms. Ashton)
• Pi Crust (Allison Krasnow)
• Punk Rock OR (Laura McLay)
• Rebecca Zook (some posts promote her tutoring, others are great thoughts on teaching & learning math)
• Recipes for Pi (Anna Weltman) 
• Sonata Mathematique (Rachel)
• square root of negative one teach math (Amy)
• Tanya Khovanova
• Teaching Ninja
• The Accidental Mathematician (Izabella Laba) 
• The Heart of a Middle School Teacher (Kristen Beck)
• The Space Between the Numbers (Breedeen Murray)

Math for Little Ones

• Let's Play Math! (Denise Gaskins)
• Math Exchanges (Kassia Wedekind)
• Natural Math (Maria Droujkova)
• Talking Stick Math Circle (Rodi, her Zen approach is dynamite!)
• The Map Is Not the Territory (Malke Rosenfeld)

Also, if you're interested in math for young kids, check out two email groups: Living Math Forum and Natural Math.



On Hiatus (great content in the archives)

• Axioms to Teach By (Alison Blank/Forster, author of the fabulous Math is not Linear Prezi)
• Continuities (Jackie Ballarini)
• Math Be Brave (Jesse Johnson)
• Signed Numbers (Jessica)

Others

• Bridging Differences (Diane Ravitch and Deborah Meier discuss education politics)
• Intersections (JoAnne Growney, Poetry with Mathematics)
• Math Playground (Colleen King runs a great math games site)
• mathbabe (Cathy O'Neil, financial analyst & mathematician)
• The Rookery (Michelle Martin, notes on a progressive 4th/5th classroom, some math)
• Unschool Days (Holly writes mostly about teaching science in a home-based setting)