Jane in NC Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Enjoy this with your morning coffee! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/opinion/how-to-fall-in-love-with-math.html?hp&_r=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilaclady Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Thanks for sharing. It will be nice if math gets a PR overhaul but I am not sure that is not wishing for the moon. Most parents don't understand or like it and the general population kind off gives the mp reason it is too tough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingedradical Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 I've been wondering - and this makes me wonder more - if I can come to love it late? No disrespect to God/Ausgustine intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 I've been wondering - and this makes me wonder more - if I can come to love it late? No disrespect to God/Ausgustine intended. Why not? I had a student at my cc class who was a WWII vet. He had taught history for years, never liked math, and wanted to learn. He ended up a tutor at the cc. Really neat guy. I think it's never too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Thank you :) Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 THe creator/founder of Jump math wrote a book about finding his love of math and then sharing it by tutoring kids and eventually creating the jump math organization. I think it was called, "The Myth of Ability". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Very nice! Thank you, Jane, for the link. Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingmom Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 I've changed my ideas about math just in the last year or two. Sure I took upto calc bc in hs but I always said math is the subject I hate. That would be the class I didn't mind if I got a B in bc I was never going to use it. But as my dc get older its really interesting to see the logic behind the math. I enjoy redoing algebra and adv probs not to get to the answer but to see "how" it was solved. Just yesterday I started a math club to go over mathcounts problems, me the person who said I hated math my whole life??!!? But it is so eye opening for me to see how kids "get it" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quark Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 As a non-math person, I really wish there was a resource I could use in the upper grades that focused on the beauty of maths. I believe it's there. I get little glimpses of it with algebra. But I don't know enough to point it out to kids beyond 12. I have some resources linked in my siggy if you want to take a look. A number of books and resources I've listed (with others' help) target older kids. Even if you choose something that feels young, I am quite certain you will find something there that you might not have encountered before. Math is so vast and almost all of these books and resources go deeper than the traditional textbook/ traditional math curriculum. Another route is to look for Art Benjamin's Great Courses when they are on sale...there's something about Prof Benjamin's sparkly eyes and enthusiastic attitude...he makes math magical imho. :001_wub: His Secrets of Mental Math are computational in flavor but he also has other titles that go deeper than computation. Also look at the Between the Folds documentary and the BBC Story of Maths. Watch the documentary about Erdos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Enjoy this with your morning coffee! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/opinion/how-to-fall-in-love-with-math.html?hp&_r=0 I loved this! It made me go back and reread the Mathematician's Lament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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