Comments on: Interesting Teachers Are Interested

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:48:55 +0000

Alyssa:

Could you elaborate what you mean when you say that these blogs “link”?

Hi Alyssa, I mean that these blogs link out to other blogs and not just in to their own posts and ideas. These blogs, in particular, link out to ideas that trigger the part of my brain that creates math experiences for other teachers' students.

By: Alyssa Schneider

Alyssa Schneider — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:29:15 +0000

Thank you for this post! I am preparing to enter the field of mathematics education and looking into possible blogs/twitter feeds that I would be interested in following in the future. This is a great resource for me and some great ideas to keep in mind as I continue my search. I also agree with this idea about what makes someone interesting, it really gives you something to think about. Could you elaborate what you mean when you say that these blogs “link”? You say that they share links that spark your interest, so does that mean that they lead to further information or that they make connections/provide additional resources?

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 01:45:22 +0000

Great links. Didn’t realize Ellenberg had a blog.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:14:47 +0000

My RSS skews towards research mathematicians (Jordan Ellenberg at https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/, Matt Baker at https://mattbakerblog.wordpress.com/).

But anyone with a passing interest in statistics and data science (and snark and bad words) should be reading Cathy O’Neil’s blog (http://mathbabe.org/).

By: Dan Anderson

Dan Anderson — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 13:13:31 +0000

Devour picks about 10 interesting videos per day to share. I’ve found some great mathy stuff there. http://devour.com/

By: Joshua Greene

Joshua Greene — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 09:14:51 +0000

Mike Lawler’s blog:
https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/

Math with Bad Drawings
http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/

By: MQ

MQ — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:26:42 +0000

I follow between 130 and 150 math [education] blogs.

Here are 5 of them, listed in alphabetical order:

Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had
https://tjzager.wordpress.com/

betterQs
https://betterqs.wordpress.com/

Math Minds
https://mathmindsblog.wordpress.com/

Math Mistakes
http://mathmistakes.org/

Tanya Khovanova’s Math Blog
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/

By: Dave N

Dave N — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:54:37 +0000

After whittling back my RSS reader for a few years, these are the core group I still read each day at lunch:

Teacher Tom (play-based co-op preschool teacher in Seattle) – http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/

dy/dan

Seth’s blog (bite-sized work advice form a marketing perspective) – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/

Spencer’s Scratch Pad (teacher/writer becoming professor/writer) – http://www.spencerideas.org/

I feel incredibly awkward that my current list boiled down to 4 white men, and have made a note to expand with an eye for diversity. I loved several anonymous blogs by new teachers, but they all eventually stopped posting (like http://mathinaz.teachforus.org/ , whose last post is chilling). :(

By: Ian H.

Ian H. — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:00:49 +0000

At the moment, I’ve got 140+ feeds in my reader, from webcomics to design blogs to photography sites. I find casting a wide net means that there’s lots there to choose from. I tend to skim fairly quickly through my reads and open something in a background tab if it catches my attention. My go-tos for inspiration or eye-catchiness are:

D’Arcy Norman
Dangerously Irrelevant
In Focus/The Big Picture
Kottke
PhotoFocus
Practical Theory
StillMotion
The Fischbowl
Toxel

and, of course, here.

By: Carl Malartre

Carl Malartre — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:42:26 +0000

I also like this remark by Seth Godin:

“An interesting person is interesting to us because she combines two things: Truth and surprise.”

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/10/are-you-interesting.html