Teaching Exponents
Someone recently asked what a zero exponent would mean in the real world. Here is my basic response. The important method of research is to …
Homeschooling
Reading Skills
How horrible the reading skills of too many American students in public, private, and home schools!! Poor kids. That’s not fair to them. (However, a …
Modern Education Fails
Please, homeschoolers, teach your children right. You have the option. Please, parents sending your children to schools, please make sure your children are taught rationally …
Driving Writing
A quote from Guide for Teaching How to Write a Story by Lee Roddy: “Have the child point out the situation the character faced at …
On Writing
Some excerpts from the good article “10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly” by Michael C. Munger: “It is hard to refine your questions, define …
Writing and Debating: Fundamental Issues of Government and Politics
On WYNC.org, they say “starting March 10, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer will be moderating First Principles, a series of three debates on the moral underpinnings of …
Teaching Writing: Two Recent Tutoring Sessions
Recently, I helped an eighth-grade student with an English paper. (We work mostly on math, but work also on grammar, writing, and whatever else comes …
The Pythagorean Theorem
Cut-the-knot.org has a page containing what they say are 98 proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. This is a theorem of which people should know a …
Teaching Sequences
Recently, I tutored someone in algebra. In his math class, he was covering arithmetic sequences as an example of functions. In his textbook, there were …
Geometry in Practice
Dr. Mercola talks to farmer Joel Salatin about how Joel raises his chickens. Tune in at 13 min 55 sec (first video). Also on YouTube. …