reflections

In the couple of months since my last post, I have been trying to incorporate small dabs of problem solving throughout my interactions with...

I have not forgotten my promise to talk about research — I just haven’t been able to figure out how to chop what I was reading into byte-si...

On each of the last two days, Suhana and I played an ad-hoc game using a small dry-erase board, some markers, and a standard die. We wrote t...

Encouraged by the non-zero readership of the previous post, here is the second chapter in the adventure. Thanks for the comments, and thanks...

How does one go about teaching math to a 4-year old? Last week, when asked “There were five birds in a tree and three flew away. How many ar...

One of the greatest joys in problem solving is to solve a puzzle and realize that the solution is an unexpected variant of something very f...

Today's entry concerns dealing with the behavior of my two-year-old daughter. Don't get me wrong—for a two-year-old, she is an extr...