Welcome.
Hello! My name is Andy Mikula. I teach mathematics and computing science, write code, and play music.
I'm currently working on getting some of my work together online. In the meantime, feel free to get in touch if you'd like to chat!
Math / Education Links.
A collection of interesting links I've collected through the years
Videos:
- An Open Letter to Students Returning to School
- The Story of Maths
- How Long is a Piece of String?
- Go Forth and Multiply
Blogs / Editorials:
- Lockhart's Lament
- It ain't no repeated addition
- The 20% Project (like Google) in My Class
- A Function of Time
- Teaching Without the Answers
- Sarcasymptote
- Parallax View
- Dan Meyer
- An Urban Teacher's Education
Activities & General Math Stuff:
- Six Ways to Discourage Learning
- The difference between a problem and an exercise
- The Problem of Learning How to Teach - Halmos
- Common Misconceptions about Logarithms
- Math FAQ
- The Game That is Worth 1000 Worksheets
- Free Lesson Plans
- A big list of mathematics education resources
- Math 4 Teaching
- Graph-Based Movie Recommender Engine
- The Silent Music of Mathematics
- Math Circles - group activities
- Emmy Noether Circles (like the above, for younger students)
- How to Read Mathematics
- Figures Inscribed in Curves
- Draw the Voronoi Diagram
- Investigation Strategies - Mason, Polya, & Shoenfeld's ideas about problem solving
- The Art of Problem Solving Resource Page
- Cool Group Projects / Games in Probability
- Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics Educators
- NRICH - enriching mathematics
- Graphing Stories
- Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string
Get in touch.
Email: andy [@] andymikula.ca