Welcome!
Joyous approaches to school mathematics … middle school, high school, and beyond. Welcome indeed!
The GLOBAL MATH PROJECT: Over 1.7 million students took part during our inaugural Global Math Week (GMW2017). The roll-out topic was Exploding Dots and you can still join! (The count is now over 4 million!) An essay about the success of GMW2017 is here. A glossy brochure to share: GMP Brochure 2018.
* CURRICULUM VIDEOS: here and here . Over a million views – despite their clunkiness!
* ONLINE COURSES: at www.gdaymath.com.
* PROBLEM SOLVING with the MAA’s Curriculum Inspirations.
* MATHEMATICAL ESSAYS GALORE!: Right here.
Send an email to tanton.math@gmail.com if you would like to receive the monthly essays in your inbox.
* Without Words and More Without Words SOLUTIONS available here. Go to Tarquin for the books and the posters!
* Area Model: The concerns.
* Recent blog post Ambiguity and Nuance – Even in Mathematics
* Assessment Article: Assessment Thoughts: Some provocative thoughts on this subject of delight! (I’ve just updated the opening of this essay as interest in assessment seems to be bubbling up again.)
* Tanton and DR. Hacker debate: MoMath, May 2016. An ESSAY in response to the debate … with APPENDIX.
* Back to Basics concerns: January 2016 Essay.
* Common Core State Standards: A video from a while ago on them re middle- and high-school work. What are they (like, really, what are we actually talking about?) and what are they ultimately trying to do. overview video . Good to couple this video with the APPENDIX to the Tanton/Hacker essay.
* What made me a Mathematician (and why I teach the way I do).
TWITTER: @jamestanton : A puzzle a day in 280 characters or less! (It used to be 140!)
Books galore too!
