Montessori on the Educational Value of Complex Multiplication
Dr. Maria Montessori said — after discussing how to introduce and develop the concept of number (with materials like beads and rods) and the concepts …
Mathematics
Brief Notes on a Geometry Tutoring Session
I tutored some students in geometry recently. Here is a note I sent to their parents to let them know what their children were doing …
Summer Math Workshops: Houston, TX Area
Does your child need review in particular areas of mathematics? Would you like to give your child a better understanding of mathematical concepts and how …
Teaching Geometry
Proof should be taught in geometry — I highly recommend it. But today, unfortunately, there is too much of a trend — pushed by the …
A Typical Geometry Class at MGTutoring
In a recent private tutoring session — via the Internet using Elluminate’s vRoom — I was able to work with a homeschooled student to teach …
The “Pons Asinorum”
Wikipedia says: Pons Asinorum (Latin for “Bridge of Asses”) is the name given to Euclid’s fifth proposition in Book 1 of his Elements of geometry, …
Happy Birthday, Mr. Gauss!!
The Prince of Mathematicians. Bookrags.com says in a short bio of Gauss: Karl Friedrich Gauss was born in Brunswick on April 30, 1777. At an …
Supplanting Saxon
Keedy and Bittinger’s algebra texts do a better job of presenting algebra than Saxon. K&B give better explanations and integrations of mathematical concepts and methods …
On Saxon Math
I’d recommend against Saxon. It’s a big mistake; I don’t know how anyone would want to use it. It does have some (attempted) virtues: it …
The Birthday Problem
After discussing the solution to the Birthday Problem, someone at Queen’s University in Cananda says: The more people there are in a group, the higher …