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Writing centers are nearly ubiquitous on college and university campuses. Typically, students can bring in a piece of writing and have someone help them improve it: from catching typos or grammar errors to restructuring the text to strengthen the main argument. I wish for an equivalent Math Center. Math centers
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Alto's Adventure [iOS] is a beautiful little game. You start as Alto, a snowboarding boy who is trying to catch runaway llamas. As you progress, you can choose to play as some of Alto's friends (my husband's favorite is the quick-flipping Maya; I tend
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The Book The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity, by Steven Strogatz The Premise Steven Strogatz, a mathematics professor at Cornell, had a math blog (On the Elements of Math) at the New York Times for a while in 2010. This is a collection
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I saw this in my Facebook feed, and instead of finding it cute, I found it a frustrating and disheartening display of innumeracy. The comments were full of "Oh wow! It worked for me," and "That's crazy!" No, it's not crazy, it&