The Math Guy

I (and pretty much most of my colleagues) have been raised in educational systems where your achievement was measured almost entirely throug...

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 ...

So once said a sports commentator on British TV. Yogi Berra (the famous New York Yankees catcher) once was asked if he preferred his pizza c...

Here is a little activity that I've used in a number of classes that has always given us great information about what the students do a...

Some of the math problems I give kids (and adults) have been begged, borrowed and stolen from many unsuspecting folk. Other questions howeve...

Arrays are brilliant. I'll say that again. Arrays are brilliant. I love the fact that I can talk about them in a kindergarten class as...

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...