MadMath

In all of the college math courses I teach -- from basic algebra, precalculus, calculus, discrete mathematics, etc. -- there's a partic...

The Veritasium channel on YouTube recently released a very high-quality video on "The Biggest Myth in Education", to wit: the Lear...

As an exercise, I went hunting for smallest possible RSA cryptosystem such that I could perform all of the encryption and decryption calcula...

Outstanding article by Elke Weesjes, one of my colleagues at CUNY/Kingsborough, on the immense difficulties faced by our community college s...

Here's a really great article that came to my attention on the abusive notion (or at least, sloppy analogy) that "the course syllab...

In Klondike Solitaire, what's the chance for starting with two face-up cards of the same rank & color (what we might call "shad...

Yesterday, the New York times published an expose on how schools in certain (poor, rural) places are being used as guinea pigs and getting ...