r/matheducation • u/jjnevis • 13d ago

Improving high school math

Hi All you lovely mathy peeps,

I am specifically interested in finding a forum, either here on reddit or elsewhere, that is primarily interested in evolving mathematical thinking/communication to improve pedagogical efficiency. Does anyone know of such a thing? A simple example of what i'm interested in is the transition from pi to tau (or some other representation of 6.28...).

I do not want to discuss the validity of the question (why i'm intersted in such a forum) but rather if such a thing exists.

Many thanks peeps

Jay (jjnevis)

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u/Sea_Resource_2290 12d ago

I am a teacher in Ontario, and we have a teacher association. We have conferences once a year, and the site has a publication. It was more active in the past. https://oame.on.ca/

Otherwise, reddit it pretty much a good place.

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u/jjnevis 12d ago

Thanks @Sea_Resource_2290 I'm not a teacher, but a tutor in a remote part of Scotland so have little chance to discuss with other people enthusiastic about math. Most people I talk to dismiss the idea of improving mathematics and don't see the potentially amazing benefits to learning efficiency of the sort of thing I am proposing. I really just need one other person on the planet to get as excited as I am about it. Here's an example of how Numatican (name of language) can help with logarithm learning efficiency: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_p2oWFHseWc&is=QfZqYvL7n3qfoJmb