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Whereas I’d expect the entire wall of arrows to point the same way, they never do.

first annual Mathematical Art Festival

The goal is always to emulate best practice.

The content does not determine the flow, the goals of meaning and transfer do. But content matters; it can’t just be projects. It takes artful design.

Student: “I like math because there’s only one right answer.” (I’m thinking: “But to what question?”)

“This is the way mathematicians work – they stare at something, they don’t know how it works, then they give it a name.” –Dan Guralnik (my Linear Algebra professor at Vanderbilt) “The way of mathematics is to make stuff up and see what happens; so let’s see what happens if…” –Vi Hart, Pi Is (Still) Wrong “In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.” –Georg Cantor