To Know Me is to Know My Starbucks Order
Do I truly love my venti cold brew with oat milk? Is it force of habit? Could I even handle a morning without it? All questions I often ask myself. Another question that came to mind recently was what is…
Math Is Everywhere
Math colored glasses on: the patterns, puzzles, and quiet mathematics hiding in museums, solstices, poems, pizza nights, and Starbucks orders. It is all fair game.
Early Numeracy at Work
Early Numeracy at work! The math just shows up, when you look for it, in small moments. My nephew gets major credit for being the only one of the cousins willing to help me set the table for pizza night…
June 21st: Solstice Geometry and Uncle Woody
Today is the summer solstice. I am in Gloucester, Massachusetts, north of Boston, the part of the world from which my family harkens. We had a lovely dinner tonight overlooking Ipswich Bay, where the sunset is spectacular. It is one…
Smoots, Kleins, and … your ‘you’-nit!
I came across this most charming article the other day, about a funny new unit of measurement called the “smoot” and named after Oliver R. Smoot Jr. who was in MIT’s class of 1962 who in 1958 lay his body…
Celebrating Earth Day the Math Way
In honor of Earth Day, I wanted to take a moment to share part of a TedX talk from Australian math educator Eddie Woo. He shares the most magical explorations of what math is and how it is apparent in…
The Math of Poetry (not to be confused with the Poetry of Math)
April marks the 30th year of National Poetry Month and with it a new way to explore the math that infuses the beauty of language. What do you think about when you consider how math and poetry might be related?…
On the Hunt for Math at MoMA
You’re dropping one kid at a birthday party in midtown and you’ve got the other kid in tow. Heading home is an option, though the moment you arrive home it will be time to reverse course and head back to…
Math Colored Glasses
Math colored glasses are really just a way of describing a curious, noticing mindset. When you put them on while you are out and about, you start to see the world a little differently. You notice patterns in the tiles…