Are you ready? Ice cube tray available at Think Geek. Too late to shop? There are online cards at piday.org: The San Francisco Exploratorium is celebrating their 22nd annual Pi Day: Come create Pi puns, participate in Pi-related antics—and have a slice of pie Activities, music, and stories at Teachpi.org. The site owners have sorted [...]

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I know you’re on the edge of your seat. World Metrology Day is celebrated annually on May 20, the anniversary of  the international agreement on units of measurement finalized at the Metre Convention in Paris, France in 1875. World Metrology Day (WMD) commemorates the signing of the treaty and it is a day when all [...]

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(Image courtesy of Indexed.) I’ll be presenting “How to Use Strategies from Singapore Math to Strengthen your Math Instruction” in Cincinnati on May 13, Atlanta on May 14 and in New Jersey on May 20 & 21, 2009. You can read more about these 1 day seminars and register through the Institute for Educational Development. [...]

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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting and Exposition (NCTM) has ended and I wanted to share a few quick items regarding Singapore Math. First off, Houghton Mifflin’s division Great Source premiered their new Singapore math series. Called Math in Focus, the textbooks are hardbound (and are heavy!) and the Teacher’s Editions appear [...]

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Sponsored by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the theme for April’s Math Awareness Month is Mathematics and Climate.  From the press release: One of the most important challenges of our time is modeling global climate. Some of the fundamental [...]

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