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Comment on Math Wars by mathmom

mathmom — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:17:14 +0000

Hi Mike,

I haven’t totally abandoned the blog. I just haven’t had the time/inspiration to post. I appreciate your comments. In my perfect world, gifted kids shouldn’t have to wait until college to be challenged!

Thanks for commenting!

Comment on Math Wars by Mike

Mike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:20:17 +0000

Hey, sorry to reply to a post that’s a year old (especially when you haven’t updated in nine months and as such have probably abandoned this), but I saw your blog, came across this article…and instead of seeing an article ranting about the math curricula in a purely political way I got somebody who had real things to say. As somebody who did well in math throughout school and is now a grad student in the subject, having people with some degree of expertise at lower levels would have been great: in fifth grade, I knew more math than any of the teachers at my elementary school. In tenth, I knew more than any of the teachers at my high school. When did learning really begin for me? College, of course, the place where there were people to learn from.

Comment on Probability Fallacies by Walking Randomly » Carnival of Mathematics – Silver Jubilee Edition

Walking Randomly » Carnival of Mathematics – Silver Jubilee Edition — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:35 +0000

[...] The first two submissions come from Mathmom over at Ramblings of a Math Mom who asks the question “Should gifted math students tutor others?” This is something I had personal experience of when I was at school (both good and bad) so I found her arguments interesting – feel free to head over there and add to the discussion, I am sure you will be made very welcome. Her second submission concerns probability-fallacies. [...]

Comment on Math Wars by Scott

Scott — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:25:58 +0000

I feel one of our greatest challenges is creating environments where students are naturally asking questions about math. I don’t know that traditional curriculum does that as well as we wish it did. I’m building an online math game for middle school
students called Ko’s Journey- a story based approach and the more beta testing we do the more we realize how much story context we need to orient students thinking mathematically.

Comment on Safe Blogging for Kids? by Cecdkc

Cecdkc — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:55:05 +0000

Just set mine up at Zoobuh.com for my older daughter. Her email is through them, too. I hate that I feel I have to filter so much (and in time, I won’t be as worried about it), but she’s young and inexperienced, and I don’t want her exposed to unwanted emails/bloggers. There’s a cost to the service, but I feel it’s worth it.

Comment on Perfect Square Factors by yoko

yoko — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:04:51 +0000

i need the name of the factors of a perfect square!!!! plz answer this..

Comment on Free Printable Math Worksheets by Daryl

Daryl — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:41:33 +0000

Found a Math “Top Sites” list that had a few on it that included Worksheets etc. (I linked to their Science site myself.)

Comment on Computing Square Roots by Hand by mathmom

mathmom — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:16:47 +0000

I certainly wouldn’t call not coming up with this algorithm as a kid “stupid”!

Comment on Computing Square Roots by Hand by Mirra

Mirra — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:17:42 +0000

I would have LOVED this algorithm when I was about 9 or 10!!! I used to wonder how to calculate square roots. Of course, I figured out the guess and check way, but despite spending ages trying to figure our a better way in primary school, I was too stupid to get this algorithm.

Now I just use the Taylor series expansion of the square root around the closest perfect square.

Comment on Pi Day Post on Irrational Numbers by Mr. Math

Mr. Math — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:31:46 +0000

Good article.