Procedural fluency or conceptual understanding--math educators have debated for years which is more important. I sided with conceptual understanding until my colleague Angela McIver helped me see the ...

*Originally published on May 11, 2022. Give Jordan Ellenberg a number and he'll tell you its square root. It's a party trick he used to do in college. The mathematician is a child prodigy. He scored a ...

This is a question that comes up every now in then. But I would like to ask a few similar questions with my first order approximation answers. I would love to hear some other ideas on these questions.