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August 6, 2020

“Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental,” says mathematician and teacher trainer James Tanton of the Mathematical Association of America. That’s quite a list of adjectives—and not the usual suspects to describe math for many. We featured Dr. Tanton in the most recent issue of...

art, beautiful, classrooms, creativity, education, imagination, James Tanton, joyful, Keith Devlin, Mathematical Association of America, mathematics, playful, rich

Social Distancing and the Socratic Life

by Rob Jackson

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July 27, 2020

Late this spring I turned on my webcam to teach students who had come to Furman University to live and study together in an Engaged Living Program called “Politics and the Human Soul.” This particularly tight cohort—who typically met up before class and proceeded en masse to the seminar room—was now scattered all over the...

adam smith, Benjamin Storey, democracy, education, Furman University, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jenna Storey, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, plato, Plato's Republic, politics, Princeton university press, public school, soul

The Natural Marvelment in Mathematics

Social Distancing and the Socratic Life