Education

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…

1 year 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

Learn Probability

Dave is a quant at Paradigm. He asked: https://x.com/_Dave__White_/status/1811557747659538823 The thread is full of recs. I mentioned David Sklansky whose books…

2 years ago

The College Monopoly Is A Tiger Trap

I hate everything about this article: How Rich (or Not) Do You Have to Be to Get Into the Ivy…

2 years ago

Personal Perspective On Teaching Kids

A friend in one of the chats I’m in revived the practice of sharing wordle scores. I joined in because…

2 years ago

Kiyosaki Without The Brainworms

On Wednesday, a friend and I hosted 30 kids ranging from age 7 to 13 for Financial Literacy session I.…

2 years ago

Numeracy Injection

Some fun math stuff today all inspired by discussions I’ve seen online in the past week. Another Monty Hall Explanation…

2 years ago