Finding Unity in the Math Wars

Kalid Azad:

I was elated and furious: "Why didn't they explain it like that the first time?!"

Paranoid I'd forget, I put my notes online and they evolved into this site: insights that actually worked for me. Articles on e, imaginary numbers, and calculus became popular -- I think we all crave deep understanding. Bad teaching was a burst of gamma rays: I'm normally mild mannered, but enter Hulk Mode when recalling how my passion nearly died.

My core beliefs:

A bad experience can undo years of good ones. Students need resources to sidestep bad teaching.

Hard-won insights, sometimes found after years of teaching, need to be shared

Learning "success" means having basic skills and the passion to learn more. A year, 5 years from now, do people seek out math? Or at least not hate it? (Compare #ihatemath to #ihategeography)

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 26, 2012 1:35 AM
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