TPACK newsletter #33, June 2017
TPACK triplet design by Punya Mishra The latest version of the TPACK newsletter (#33) can be found here (pdf). All previous issues are archived here. A shout-ou...
Category: Mathematics
Pi Day
3.14 looked in a mirror and guess what he saw? Happy Pi(e) day.
Wordclouds, mathematics and building a better teacher
Wordcloud created from all the words in the wikipedia page for “mathematics education” What does a teacher need to know to intelligently integrate ...
Mathematical insight on reality & you (yes, you!)
I have always been intrigued by the manner in which everyday ideas get “mathematicized” (if that’s a word). For instance, the other day, on a ...
Infinite Regress: New ambigram / visual pun
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity… The path that you are to take is en...
Math & Visual Wordplay: New video
The word “math” written such that it has rotational symmetry i.e. it reads the same even when rotated by 180-degrees. The relationship between mathe...
TPACK Newsletters (#28, #29 & 30)
In the rush of summer and the move to Arizona I missed posting #28 and #29 of the TPACK newsletter, and before I knew it, #30 was here as well. Well here are l...
Ganesh, new ambigram, & old video
One of the big parts of my life over the past decade or more, has been the Ganesh Festival celebrations in Lansing with friends and family—Good food and good ti...
Why teachers should care about beauty in science
Figure 1. “We are a way for the universe to know itself” – Carl Sagan Science is one of the most powerful ways to engage with the beauty of the universe. ...
Handbook of TPACK for Educators, 2nd Edition
The TPACK framework, as we know it today, was first introduced to the world in 2006 in an article in TCRecord (Mishra & Koehler, 2006). An important part of...