Education

Using games to identify bias

Last Monday night, I taught a group of kids (and parents) from the neighborhood and social club a trading game as well…

1 year ago

you need motivation to learn the value of pain

Friends, I’ve been saving this one for the start of the school year. For those who start after Labor Day…

1 year ago

poker without the poker

An on-ramp to games of incomplete info for children   Matt Levine on teaching his 4-year old poker: How to…

1 year ago

cheating is just a canary

The common theme in today’s links is gonna be pretty obvious. math team and other horrible things you to do…

1 year ago

the game of school

Last Wednesday, I talked about the cognitive bias where our minds substitute an easy question for a hard one. It’s in…

2 years ago

what are we supposed to learn to prep for the future?

Our local social club recently held its annual all-hands where we address housekeeping matters, re-affirm goals, and discuss event programming. This is…

2 years ago

pushing my kids

Wednesday night Yinh came out of the boys’ room and in a hushed tone relayed the 6th grader was feeling…

2 years ago

boredom risk

If you know about education and want to write about it, I’m just letting you know you should go for…

2 years ago

The Principles of Learning Fast

Friends, In September I wrote about signing my 6th grader and myself up for courses on mathacademy.com. It’s been a…

2 years ago

“How did you solve that math problem?”

The last few issues I’ve talked about mathacademy.com (no less than 7 readers are now doing it for themselves and/or…

2 years ago