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Tyson v. LeBron 2 May 2012 | 11:52 am
The Miami Heat and New York Knicks are playing this week in the first round of the NBA playoffs. After a controversial flagrant foul call on Saturday, all eyes will be on Heat superstar LeBron Jame...
The Things We Find Interesting 30 Apr 2012 | 06:38 am
There’s a good debate going on right now on Dan Meyer’s blog about the nature of “interesting:” what makes for an interesting question, and what are the types of curiosity/perplexity that we want to i...
Mathalicious Kickstarts a Fresh Way to Teach with Math52 26 Apr 2012 | 12:30 am
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ginny Stuckey, 530-420-5474, ginny@mathalicious.com Mathalicious Kickstarts a Fresh Way to Teach with Math52 Alexandria, VA – 04/25/2012 Today, Mathalicious...
Warranties, part 2: Warranty for You 24 Apr 2012 | 02:03 am
In the previous post we discussed whether it’s ever a good idea to buy a product warranty such as AppleCare. To answer this, we used something called expected value. For instance, if an $829 iPad has ...
Warranties, part 1: An AppleCare a Day 29 Mar 2012 | 02:39 am
Apple just released the new iPad, and buyers across the country are asking the same question: Should I buy AppleCare? When you pay $829 for a 64GB 4G iPad, paying another $99 to protect it may ...
Le Pont de Javert 29 Feb 2012 | 08:14 am
I was obsessed with Les Misérables when I was a kid. I still had the Zeppelin posters, and my first CD was Black Crowes’ Shake Your Money Maker. But that didn’t stop me from wanting to be Gavroche, th...
Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time 5 Feb 2012 | 09:30 am
Over the past year, it’s become difficult to have a conversation about education and education reform without mentioning the words “Khan Academy.” For those who aren’t familiar, Khan Academy is a webs...
Why We Changed Our Pricing 2 Jan 2012 | 07:31 am
I was leading a PD recently for a local school district about how to teach more effectively using real-world topics. Before the session a teacher came up to me and asked, “Do you work at Mathalicious?...
Socrates & C-3PO 22 Dec 2011 | 08:16 am
If you’ve opened a newspaper lately, you may be under the impression that teachers are a dying breed. A New York Times article highlights how school districts across the county are increasingly turnin...
Jen Headlines 25 Nov 2011 | 04:57 am
In addition to the Golden Rule, Confucius described the concept of jen. According to Wikipedia, jen is the “the good feeling a virtuous human experiences when behaving rightly, especially toward other...
