Caveat: I am probably the last person who should think about math education. Not only do I have little experience teaching the subject — help-session-tutor TA-ships in algebra and calculus in undergrad — but through most of my own schooling, math came easily to me. There’s a real sense in…
Last week, I posted the first five of the ten 10 Hebrew school lessons I’ve been glad to take forward with me into my adult life. Here are numbers 6-10.
There are many things I learned in Hebrew school that no longer apply to my life, or that I choose, wilfully, to reject. I can no longer abide some Jewish thought about the differences between men and women, or between Jews and non-Jews, or between heterosexual monogamists and those of…
For my birthday this year, I asked my Ottawa friends to make me a game. See, I don’t like Apples to Apples. I find it boring — a rapid-fire barrage of concepts rather than the prompts for interesting conversations or witty jokes. That’s also part of why I dislike Cards…