Headlines from a Mathematically Illiterate World

http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2013/12/02/headlines-from-a-mathematically-literate-world/

The longer I teach, the more I think that the math that feels most important for students to take away from my class is about learning to read, interpret, and critically evaluate the logical/illogical statements that float around every day. I do actively enjoy pure math kinds of things, but if it came down to a choice of residue, I'd give up a robust understanding of derivatives for my kids leave being able to read a graph in the newspaper and evaluate the reasonableness of the latest study's claim.

I think it would be really fun for kids to find ridiculous statements in news articles and correct them like this. It would be interesting to develop that critical eye for poorly worded statements, both from a language and a mathematical perspective.

Love, and Love Lost

Visualizations of Love:
http://love.seebytouch.com/#LetMeShowYou

Clearly some are more mathy than others, but I like the variation in the types of visualizations.

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And quantifications of love no more:
http://quantifiedbreakup.tumblr.com/

Sometimes when kids tell me that they're in a bad mood or not feeling well, I respond that doing math problems always makes you feel better. Looks like I wasn't making it up. Doing math as therapy is real!