Tagged: connected educators

International Congress for Mathematics Education Part 2

I began this post on Friday night in Hamburg Germany, near the end of ICME, the quadrennial international math-education conference that’s been both exhilarating and exhausting. I’m now finishing it on the airplane headed back home. As interesting as many of the presentations have been, they’ve also been almost entirely lecture format with Q&A at...

Collaborating on an Extension to a Little-Known Theorem

[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;...