I’ve recently had a series of discussions with a friend of mine who is an advisor on education policy to a member of Congress and a TFA alum (from a particularly hard-scrabble school in Philadelphia), and in general has an extremely good sense of what is possible both in schools — classrooms and administrations alike [...]
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Finding the Focus for Education Reform
Posted in Education on April 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A Problem in Self-Similar Tilings
Posted in Education, Mathematics on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This [pdf] is the note on that remarkable series of lessons I mentioned – it has pictures, which is why it’s not posted directly here. The link takes you to the draft currently under review for publication in The Mathematics Teacher. Update (3/16/10): The Mathematics Teacher inexplicably did not accept the note for publication. In [...]
