A new online course for educators in collaboration with ASU's Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation: Creating Radical Joy in your Mathematics Classroom.
James is co-Founder of the Global Math Project,
an initiative to change the world's perception of what mathematics can be.
Up and Coming
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A new book with CORWIN under production:
MATH DECODED:
Explaining the WHY behind numbers and how the operate.
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A refreshing and new Algebra I curriculum with SmartWithIt.
Workshops and Curriculum Thinking
People typically reach out to me with a broad question, such as:
James! Can you visit our school and help us make trigonometry (or fractions, logarithms, the area model—any school math topic) meaningful and joyful for everyone?
And I do my best to answer YES!
But to be clear, the work we do together will be to roll up our sleeves and do genuine mathematics together. We’ll explore why humans were inspired to engage with the topic in the first place, we'll strip away the curriculum clutter that obscures the simple, natural, and common-sense thinking behind it, and bring joy, meaning, purpose, ease, and kindness to the student experience.
In short: We won’t just talk about doing math—we’ll do math!
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Most Popular Topics:
* Exploding Dots: The story of place value throughout the entire curriculum, and beyond!
* Quadratics: Their algebra and their graphs
* Trigonometry
* Fractions: How to help high schoolers
* Patterns: What to do if you trust them; What to do if you don't!
* Exponents and Logarithms
* Proportional Reasoning
See my Curriculum Vitae for all the work I have done.
Videos
I have two YouTube channels chock full of curriculum related materials, along general puzzles and delights from the wonders of mathematics.
Current YouTube Channel.
Embarrassing Old Channel with old old videos.​
