You Should Really Get to Know Mathew is a starting place for any teacher working to incorporate mathematics into a non-math classroom.

     Responding to calls for an interconnected education, several schools have designed their own methods for injecting mathematics into all subjects; however, this booklet exposes some of the more common methods as detrimental in the hidden lessons that these careless implementations teach. Instead, the text lays out a common-sense approach to including meaningful and authentic mathematical experiences in a way that won't compromise class time or principles of other disciplines.

     You Should Really Get to Know Mathew can serve as a short individual professional development unit or as a basis for ongoing discussion and development involving a full teaching staff.

     When will I ever use this stuff?" Students discover the answer to this question as they find solution paths to interesting scenarios, such as "What size popcorn tub is best to purchase at a movie theater?" Problem solving, logic, geometry, probability, and communication are among the skills addressed in this unique teacher resource.

     Investigations move beyond rote memorization and toward deep conceptual understanding. The book focuses on open-ended investigations that require students to apply various mathematical strands to solve complex, real-world problems. By emphasizing the "why" behind the "how," learners are encouraged to develop a more sophisticated mathematical intuition, fostering a classroom environment where inquiry and discovery take center stage.

     By engaging with these non-routine problems, students learn to persevere through challenges and view mathematics as a dynamic tool for analysis rather than a static set of rules. The book can serve as a supplement for gifted programs, math clubs, or any middle-to-high school curriculum aiming to strengthen analytical rigor.

     Everything's a Basketball Analogy is a tiny little podcast that attempts to improve the study habits of math students through examining some misguided thinking by crossing it over into the world of basketball.

     Throughout the podcast, we take some of the common opinions about working in school mathematics and translate them into basketball analogies. Why so much with the basketball? Honestly, it's because basketball is a pretty simple game. Most kids have played it, and the ones that haven't probably still understand what it would be like to be on a team. Sometimes when these math opinions get restated as basketball opinions, they get easily exposed for what they really are.

     In the end, success in either one depends on building strong habits through intentional practice. Strong habits don't come without motivation ... and motivation doesn't stick if you've convinced yourself that some dangerous myths are true.

     This is the complete account of an entirely true adventure in mathematics … an adventure taken by twenty-one first-year algebra students from East Tipp Middle School and led by their own mathematical Indiana Jones, Dr. Grant Wiggins. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed living it.

     A children's book with a short message about making and keeping commitments that might be a message for bigger kids as well.

     There are other smaller things like material in the Price's Write NSF Project, letters in Mathematics Teacher Magazine, and cuttings for speech contests; if you're looking for something specific that you don't see here, please let me know!