Math Mama Writes...

This is a week-long workshop being held on UC Berkeley's campus, sponsored by MSRI . On Monday afternoon I was able to attend a session ...

One of the members of the Natural Math group pointed us to a BBC article, " Taking Maths to the Street ." The author of the artic...

I spent an hour yesterday morning, preparing for my tutoring session with Artemis. That's the first time I've done that. I figured t...

Calculus starts out with two main branches. Finding slopes of curvy lines (aka finding the derivative or differentiating) and finding areas...

I'm still hoping to find a publisher for my book. If I don't find one, I've been planning to go with Lulu . Until just now, I ha...

Avery ( Without Geometry, Life is Pointless ) pointed out a very interesting article, Habits of Mind: An Organizing Principle for Mathematic...

I'll have to rethink having moderation on. All comments are supposed to come to my email. Once in a while they don't, but are stored...

Doug Noon at Borderlands has written another post that strikes just the right note for me.   This one is partly about a math skill we all h...

I say I have a terrible memory, and that's why I'm in math instead of science (with its myriad names for bones, muscles, organs, che...

I recently got a copy of Mathematician's Delight , by W. W. Sawyer. I had loved his book Vision in Elementary Mathematics , so I knew I...