The Math Guy

For the first lesson of any semester, I ask students to complete this sentence:  Math is the study of... I get a variety of responses with t...

With Burns Night fast approaching, I was reminded of one of his more memorable couplets last week:  "The best laid schemes o' mi...

I was reminded about how much I love this question today when I took part in a crowdsourcing of questions courtesy of Tracy Zager (@TracyZag...

I was at a Ministry-run conference last week working with other Math-folk from all over Ontario and suddenly had an epiphany regarding Spati...

Here in Ontario, we have had some very cold and snowy weather recently. I took advantage of this in a Grade 5 class to see if the students c...

If I ask someone how they are feeling and they reply "Oh, average" it is sometimes very difficult for me not to say "Oh, and ...

This past week I was in a couple of different Grade 6 classes doing some probability tasks. Watching the kids tackle these led to some huge ...

I am slowly but surely working my way through James Joyce's Ulysses (my goal is to finish reading it before the summer!). I find the wh...