Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Lead of NASA Psyche mission; Managing Director of Interplanetary Initiative at ASU; co-founder of Beagle Learning (www.beaglelearning.com)
James Tanton
Bringing joyful, genuine, meaningful, uplifting learning to the world is my thing … especially with mathematics. Global Math Project, Beagle Learning & more!
Latest Posts
The Joy and the Fear of Learning
How to Run an Undergraduate Research Course Using Inquiry
How We Teach Problem-Solving, or, A Step-by-Step Guide for Having Questions Lead Your Learning…
By James Tanton, Turner Bohlen, Lindy Elkins-Tanton and the Beagle Team.
Turning around question-asking in your class
Can you let the learners, instead of you, drive the questions?
TEACHING VIA INQUIRY LEARNING: An easy step?
Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, and exploratory learning are terms we often hear today. Even if we don’t know what they…
High Hedonistic and Low Fatalistic
The importance of optimism and agency in life and in education
Ambiguity and Nuance — Even in Mathematics
Mathematics is often seen as the epitome of a study of hard facts: answers are either right or wrong, concrete algorithms give concrete…
Teaching one world
We all may truly want the same things for our students
We live in different time zones and we work on different things. Are we really a team?
“Welcome on board, Sophie!” I cheer over the phone, to our latest scientific team member. She’s joining our international team from a…
What Do Corporate Teamwork and Higher Education Have in Common?
Over the past three months, we’ve been talking with more and more people about our online learning tool. And something interesting has…
What do we really need to be better teachers?
Compare and contrast: (1) students leaping out of their seats with blazing eyes and changing their lives in the movie “Dead Poets Society,”…
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