Daily Archives: December 22, 2013


How to THINK about Math

As a teacher of both English and Math for over two decades, I’ve had a unique opportunity to witness how the same student OFTEN thinks completely differently about math and EVERYTHING ELSE. Every year I work with really bright, hard-working students who exercise impressive critical thinking and cognitive firepower in the humanities and in life in general, but as soon as a problem is written down in a math book or on a math section of a standardized test, their IQ seems to fall precipitously as their eyes glaze over and their shoulders start to shrug. I’ll tell you, people, […]