Although I’m proudest of my books, I have occasionally written things that do not retail for $27.99. In fact, they’re probably the best place to start with my work.
Here are some of my favorite essays on education and learning:
- What It Feels Like to Be Bad at Math (later reposted at Slate)
- The Math Ceiling: Where’s Your Cognitive Breaking Point? (later adapted for Math Horizons)
- The State of Being Stuck
- Why I’ve Stopped Doing Interviews for Yale (later adapted for The Los Angeles Times)
- When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning (The Atlantic)
- How I Became an Unfair Teacher (The Atlantic)
- The Thesaurus of Failure (Slate)
- Getting the Joke — And the Math (CM)
- Against Mathematical Proof
But let’s be honest, people like my funnier stuff better. Here are some of my more popular silly posts:
- Headlines from a Mathematically Literate World (reposted at Huffington Post)
- Why Not to Trust Statistics (later featured in Math with Bad Drawings)
- Math Experts Split the Check (reprinted in Math Horizons)
- What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession? (later featured in Math with Bad Drawings)
- How to Tell a Mathematician You Love Them
- Literature’s Greatest Opening Lines, as Written by Mathematicians
- A Mathematician’s New Year’s Resolutions