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Sunil Singh
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2 days ago

Math Education Has Hit Its Iceberg: Institutionalized Embrace of Pedagogy and Institutionalized Disregard for Mathematics

Yes. It’s a long title. But, it also completely encapsulates a problem of an insidious vector change in math education over 25 years ago — focusing less and less on mathematics — that made this intellectual collapse sadly inevitable. Mathematics is dead. Its interlaced connection to history, philosophy, music, the…

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Math Education Has Hit Its Iceberg: Institutionalized Embrace of Pedagogy and Institutionalized…
Math Education Has Hit Its Iceberg: Institutionalized Embrace of Pedagogy and Institutionalized…

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Sep 6

Math Education Never Prioritized Beauty In Mathematics

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…

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Math Education Never Prioritized Beauty In Mathematics
Math Education Never Prioritized Beauty In Mathematics

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Sep 3

A.I. Is Helping Accelerate Math Education Towards Its Final Resting Place: Dehumanization

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? …

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A.I. Is Helping Accelerate Math Education Towards Its Final Resting Place: Dehumanization
A.I. Is Helping Accelerate Math Education Towards Its Final Resting Place: Dehumanization

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Aug 23

The “Climate Crisis” In Math Education: There Is No Mathematics

When my mentor, Peter Harrison, retired twenty years ago, he remarked to me that “mathematics was dead”. …

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The “Climate Crisis” In Math Education: There Is No Mathematics
The “Climate Crisis” In Math Education: There Is No Mathematics

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Aug 6

Rejuvenating Radio and Classic Rock Can Only Be Done By Storytelling

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…

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Rejuvenating Radio and Classic Rock Can Only Be Done By Storytelling
Rejuvenating Radio and Classic Rock Can Only Be Done By Storytelling

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Aug 5

Math Education: A Prison With Very Wide Bars

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…

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Math Education: A Prison With Very Wide Bars
Math Education: A Prison With Very Wide Bars

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Aug 3

Uplifting Students By Uplifting Mathematics: An Emotional Day At Osborne Juvenile Center

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…

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Uplifting Students By Uplifting Mathematics: An Emotional Day At Osborne Juvenile Center
Uplifting Students By Uplifting Mathematics: An Emotional Day At Osborne Juvenile Center

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Jul 25

Equity In Math Education Failed To Leverage Its Greatest Asset — History.

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…

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Equity In Math Education Failed To Leverage Its Greatest Asset — History.
Equity In Math Education Failed To Leverage Its Greatest Asset — History.

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Jul 1

Brian’s Song: The Venn Diagram of Mathematics, Music, and Love

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.

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Brian’s Song: The Venn Diagram of Mathematics, Music, and Love
Brian’s Song: The Venn Diagram of Mathematics, Music, and Love

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Jun 29

California Mathematics Framework: Hope, Healing, and Humanity

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. …

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California Mathematics Framework: Hope, Healing, and Humanity
California Mathematics Framework: Hope, Healing, and Humanity

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