The Lost Tools of Learning
Brandon HendricksonWhat if schools were designed for humans? Putting together a big-picture view of humanity to craft new kinds of schools.
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I’m writing a response to Scott’s recent essay about why attempts to solve debates won’t work — provocatively titled
Numbers against reality: The quest for glory
Where does our math come from?
Around 600 BCE there was an explosion in ancient Greece, and we’ve been trying to re-create it ever since.
Last week we talked about the roots of Greek math: wandering Babylonian priests sharing riddles a...
Numbers against reality: So you want to be a hero
“The universe… is written in the language of mathematics.”
– Galileo Galilei
Since this was written in 1623, the life of the mind hasn’t been the same.
Before Galileo, there were two streams of mathematics. The first saw numbers as myst...
UFOs and dinosaurs
The good news is that kids these days swim in information. The bad news, of course, is that all too often they don’t know what’s actually real — and even when they do, it feels flat.
I’m teaching two week-long online camps this summer desi...
The magic of numbers: Computational wizardry
By the end of elementary school, every kid should be able to perform feats of mental arithmetic that others might call “freaky”.
This is our last post on elementary math. If we play our cards right, the two threads before — 🧵DAILY LESSON...
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Father, teacher, and inveterate book-reader living in Rochester, Minnesota. Founder of scienceisWEIRD.com; draws pictures of dinosaurs and thinks through new models to education in my spare time. Winner of the 2023 ACX book review contest.
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