MadMath

I discovered something last semester that made me insert a new little thing in the first day of my basic-level (remedial, liberal arts) comm...

There's an interesting article from the Brookings Institution last month, on the perpetual debate over tracking in the U.S. school syst...

Psychologist Carol Dweck's "growth mindset" theory has become a popular solution and intervention technique in (mostly Americ...

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...