Yesterday I watched “King of Kong,” and a while ago I fell in love with “Spellbound.” Both of those movies are documentaries about strange subcultures of people — where the norms and values of these subjects are so foreign to the viewer that it’s a bit of an anthropological expedition.
While watching “King of Kong” I [...]
March 2, 2008
Recollections of theorems past
March 2, 2008
Why? I’ll tell you why I have to remain silent…
Dan Meyer asks the question:
Unless my experience as a classroom manager is several deviations below the mean, other people are struggling with this as I have struggled. New teachers are struggling with this. So why is classroom management the farthest topic from anyone’s blog?
Before reading the comments, to see what his other readers thought, [...]
March 2, 2008
My First Post
I’ve been blogging about my first year of teaching at my school in Brooklyn. But until now, the blog has been under wraps, private, an archive of the good, the bad, and the ugly. As I’ve been getting more and more into reading math teacher blogs, I’ve been getting more and more antsy to contribute [...]
