I have been in the space of math education for over 30 years. I have taught in tough, urban schools and an IB School in Switzerland. I have been going to math conferences for 20 years. While sometimes these conferences have had words “joy” in their conference themes, the word…

The cult of pedagogy which has consumed math education the last few years has only made the arrival of something like ChatGPT more topical and alluring. Why wouldn’t it be? Math education is currently predicated on teacher-facing interests of delivery, and metrics which can measure the measurability and efficiency of…

When my mentor, Peter Harrison, retired twenty years ago, he remarked to me that “mathematics was dead”. He said it with the same confidence and resignation that the famous DJ Lester Bangs told a young William Miller in the film “Almost Famous”, that rock and roll was dead and he…

I am 59. I stopped listening to radio for music when a Toronto station called Q107 pulled the plug on its highly popular Psychedelic Sundays with the DJ Andy Frost on May 27, 2018, my 54th birthday. While naturally a whole day of listening to the best music of 1965…

When I quit teaching 10 years ago, I was married and owned a house. Today, I sleep on a basement couch of a rental home, divorced, coparenting our two teenage kids. I have done that for six years now. But, I am infinitely more happy today than that time. The…

On August 1, I visited Osborne Juvenile Center, which is located in San Jose, California. I was invited by Bernadette Salgarino, who is a mathematics coordinator for Santa Clara County. She is also President-Elect for California Math Council. In early 2023, she invited me to give a keynote at Silicon…

About five years ago, when I worked at a Canadian company called Scolab, I had the uncomfortable — but necessary — task of telling the mostly white employees that their avatar, Alfred, an Einstein looking character in a white lab coat, had to go. While I was advising this on…

It’s time to transition this space, which has been home to over 100 blogs about mathematics/math education, to music. I am in the home stretch of finishing my fourth and final book.

I don’t live in California. I don’t even live in the United States. I live in Canada. My friend, Jo Boaler, who was part of the team that put together the CMF, sent me a message on Twitter to let me the know that the revised version was now available. …