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We first see Malcolm in Act 1 Scene 4, when Duncan announces that he is the Prince of Cumberland. This title means that Malcolm is now heir to the throne: in medieval Scotland, the crown …

Roll up, roll up, roll up. Come hither come all to the Carnival of Mathematics. This is the 224th Edition of the longest running Maths Carnival. For those of you who are unaware, a “blog …

It’s the holidays so that means there’s been a debate on edutwitter. I’ve watched some conversations regarding the use of isolation rooms and think there may be some confusion. This is a very short post …

Since taking the plunge with mini-whiteboards (see this post) over the past few years my ability to know whether students are paying attention, thinking and practising has dramatically increased. Because I'm usually teaching groups of …

Remember when Japan was the exemplar of Capitalism? We were all urged to learn Japanese. It is now seen as a frail economy. The yen's plunge to a fresh 35 year low against the dollar …

Yesterday, my eight-year-old daughter had a shocking revelation about commonly misspelled words as I looked over a story she was writing: “You mean sence isn’t a word?!” she gasped. “Then … The post Sence, Since, …

The firebox

A few memories stay with me from the very early days of the pandemic. Mostly about what I got wrong or right, or just got lucky. My wife and I throw themed dinner parties and …

For our last day of pop aural skills class, I did a crash course on historical tuning systems. This involved a brief introduction to harmonics. As I was talking, I realized that my verbal explanation …

The texts started coming thick and fast on Friday: “You’re a clue on Jeopardy!” “This is the big time!” “What more can you achieve?” The clue: “LENORE SKENAZY, WHO WROTE OF LETTING HER 9-YEAR-OLD RIDE …

Three things to use in class Epitaph for Mme Ren, titled Lady of Virtue (shuren) The Honorable Bao Deming, the Assistant Regional Military Commander for my province, lost his first wife. Prior to her burial, …

Back in 2014, I was invited to join the AGU Blogosphere to post about geoscience education and educational technology (see my very first post, Join the Trek to explore Geoscience Education). Over time, as my …

Guest Contributor Vinny Tafuro, Futurist & Economist Vinny is a founder of the Institute for Economic Evolution. A polymath and curious by nature, he is a pioneering advocate for the twenty-first-century economy that is disrupting …

Have you tried any blindfold activities with your child? If your child goes to a Montessori school, it's likely they have tried some sensorial activities like the pink tower, knobbed cylinders, thermic tablets, perhaps even …

This post isn’t going to be very deep, but I’m taking a vacation next week and I don’t want to let a whole month go by without posting anything. I thought I would reflect a …

I reviewed David Brooks’s How to Know a Person for the TLS: David Brooks was raised in a Jewish family whose motto, he says, might have been “Think Yiddish, Act British.” He learned to be …

Once upon a time, there was much unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in the land. Leaders tried one thing after another to end these grim conditions. Nothing worked. In the midst of these bad times, however, …

At the age of seven, I waved a medical encyclopedia in front of my parents and announced that I had “free-floating anxiety”. The book was one of only a few we had in the house, …

I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to work in our partner kindergarten in Norway over the Easter break, it was the perfect chance to spend time in the kindergarten without having to get …