The Math Education Blog
For the past eight years, I’ve been engaged in a project that is about as far from mathematics as one could imagine — coediting an English anthology of contemporary Turkish poetry with my good friend, Buğra Giritlioğlu, who is the founder of the queer publishing house obiçim yayınlar. Our anthology, The Pulse of Contemporary Turkish,...
At the 2013 Baltimore Regional NCTM Meeting, I gave a presentation on Picturing Functions and Functions of Pictures. In the description of my presentation I’d promised to show how to use Sketchpad to create special effects, so when it came time to prepare, I figured I needed to deliver on my promise. So I wrote...
[Today’s post is from Steven Fuchs, with whom I recently corresponded and whose enthusiasm was sufficiently infectious that I pressed him to share it here. –Scott] One day late last spring, while teaching at St. Thomas High School in Houston, I noticed in a book a figure demonstrating Monge’s Theorem. (Don’t look this up yet;...
Harry congratulates a rower after sweeping Yale for his last time. Harry Parker died this summer, two weeks after coaching the Harvard rowing team to yet another sweep of all four races (varsity, JV, freshmen, and spares) against Yale and two days after accompanying his 1980 Olympic crew on a reunion row. I had the...