“In 2018, I want to change the world.
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I want to make it possible for more children to claim math as their favorite subject.
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Math is how we describe our world when words are not enough. Everyone deserves to speak math and to play math, to enjoy its beauty and its power.”— Geoff White
The Grade 10 Math Crunch, or Hitting the Wall at Grade 10
CREDITS: Background photo by Bobby Johnson on Unsplash.
“At heart, mathematical thinking is little more than formalized common sense. It always has been. Which means it is something we can all do.”
— Keith Devlin
How Today’s Pros Solve Math Problems
If you have some time to spend pondering big ideas, dig into Devlin’s entire series of posts about what real-world mathematics looks like and the implications for math education:
And a related series on K–12 school math:
“Make no mistake about it, acquiring that modern-day mathematical skillset definitely requires spending time carrying out the various procedures. Your child or children will still spend time ‘doing math’ in the way you remember.
“But whereas the focus used to be on mastering the skills with the goal of carrying out the procedures accurately — something that, thanks to the learning capacity of the human brain, could be achieved without deep, conceptual understanding — the focus today is on that conceptual understanding.
“That is a very different goal, and quite frankly a much more difficult one to reach.”
— Keith Devlin
All The Mathematical Methods I Learned in My University Math Degree Became Obsolete in My Lifetime
Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math 