Today’s interview is with Mina Greenfield. She has been a speech-language pathologist for sixteen years. I enjoyed hearing not only about the math involved in her job but also about her work with children on the autism spectrum. People like
Last week, we had some fun with the order of operations at the Math for Grownups facebook page.* Turns out remembering the order that you should multiply, add, etc. in a math problem is a tough thing for adults to remember.
When I started doing Math at Work Monday interviews, I thought of it as a little experiment. Would people I talk to actually recognize the math they do? Would they feel confident in their math skills? Would the the math
Everybody loves a sale, right? The thrill of the hunt, the sense of accomplishment when landing a great deal. But how many times have you reached the register and realized your purchase was more than you expected? Or have you
Graham Laing is my brother, and I don’t think he’d be offended by my telling you that some of us in the family were a little worried that he might not amount to anything. But that’s another story for another
I’m on the right track, baby I was born this way –Lady Gaga It was day two of my second year of teaching high school geometry, and already I had been called for a parent meeting in the principal’s office.
The more I talk to people about math, the more I hear this refrain: “I don’t like math, because math problems have only one answer.” Peshaw! Okay, so it’s not such a crazy idea. Most math problems do have one