I love asking students questions that I don’t know the answer to. Sometimes, they are meta-cognitive, asking students how they think about and approach math: Why did you chose this method? What have you tried so far? What do you understand about this problem? How could you change this… — read more

Last school year, I stepped back from the classroom and into a slurry of part-time roles at different educational organizations. I wrote all about it here. One of my main goals is to step back, reflect, and eventually re-engage in the classroom with fresh perspectives and renewed vigor. As… — read more

This week, I had the privilege and joy of participating in The Exploratorium’s Art of Tinkering Workshop. The three day session is all about what it means to tinker, and how to apply the mindset of a tinkerer in an educational setting. Having taught project- and problem-based learning for… — read more

While at the California Mathematics Conference North conference at Asilomar last weekend, a memory (or was it a fever dream?) from the year 2020 flooded back to me… I spoke “at” CMC South once! While CMC North is hosted at the gorgeous Asilomar Conference Grounds, CMC South is in… — read more

Each year, the California Mathematics Council hosts a NorCal conference for Math teachers at Asilomar, near Monterey, CA. It’s a stunningly beautiful place to nerd out with hundreds of other Math teachers for the weekend. This was my third time attending the conference, but my first since 2019, so… — read more

Hey, I’m back! As I mentioned in my What I’m Up To This School Year post, I have been teaching a college Intermediate Algebra course to people incarcerated at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. I just wrapped up my first semester there, and wanted to share Three Lessons from Three… — read more