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James Tanton

A Math Essay: Why I like my HOW TO FOLD A FITTED SHEET video

It’s turned out to be one of my most popular videos and I am proud that it is! (There’s also a cameo sheet-folding spot in a recent math…

6 min readMay 31, 2020

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A Math Essay: Why I like my HOW TO FOLD A FITTED SHEET video

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COVID-19 Exposes Mathematics Education Inadequacies: A modicum of (secret) relief for Educators.

Mathematics teachers are fabulous. The past number of weeks have proven to be particularly challenging for all teachers to turn their…

8 min readApr 18, 2020

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COVID-19 Exposes Mathematics Education Inadequacies: A modicum of (secret) relief for Educators.

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Two Key — but ignored— Steps to Solving Any Math Problem

Here’s a strange question.

5 min readJan 30, 2019

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Two Key — but ignored— Steps to Solving Any Math Problem

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Breaking the Mathematics Education System Despite Itself

There is a psychological tactic employed by some classroom teachers following a strict curriculum: to bond with one’s students by casting…

10 min readDec 28, 2018

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Global Joy: Uplifting Mathematics in Classrooms Across the Planet

During a special week in October of 2017 a global phenomenon in mathematics education and outreach occurred: thousands of math teachers…

24 min readOct 31, 2018

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Global Joy: Uplifting Mathematics in Classrooms Across the Planet

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A Young Student’s Approach to Polygon Areas

Sharing the work of Sameer Sharma, age 16.

4 min readSep 29, 2018

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A Young Student’s Approach to Polygon Areas

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PERSONAL STORIES OF DISCOVERING MATHEMATICS

Do you have a specific first memory of discovering mathematics, that is, a piece of mathematics that was original to you, that you felt you…

7 min readAug 30, 2018

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PERSONAL STORIES OF DISCOVERING MATHEMATICS

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A Word of Explanation: Exploding Dots again (… and again? … and again?)

According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics there are well over 700 million enrolled primary school students in the world and well…

4 min readJun 10, 2018

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A Word of Explanation: Exploding Dots again (… and again? … and again?)

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James Tanton
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Q.E.D.

The Unreasonableness of K-12 Mathematics

Mathematicians and scientists often express absolute awe — they gawk even — at the power and effectiveness of describing the universe…

10 min readMay 28, 2018

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James Tanton is a Hypocrite (and I am James Tanton, by the way).

I am James and I am a math guy.

3 min readMar 29, 2018

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James Tanton

James Tanton

Bringing joyful, genuine, meaningful, uplifting learning to the world is my thing … especially with mathematics. Global Math Project, Beagle Learning & more!

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