I absolutely lost it in class this week when this video was played during our lesson: I believe James Blunt's Your Beautiful was released when I was 15 years old. At the time, I believed it was the sole most romantic song ever. Never did I guess that I would rediscover my love for the sappy ballad nearly 10 years later, in math class,...

I hate to admit it, but prior to this class, I very seldom thought of patterning and algebra as related. Patterning, to me, was about repeating images and numbers. It was a visual arrangement; a part of mathematics that was tangible and easier to understand than algebra. Algebra was mystery. It was about solving unknowns, and it was usually a challenge. Algebra looked...

I'm beginning to develop a new-found appreciation for math-based storybooks. Initially, The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Fraction Book left a bad taste in my mouth, pun very much intended. I found the book to be rather vapid, thanks to its general lack of a plot. This week, however, we read another mathematically-themed book, If You Hoped Like a Frog by David M. Schwartz. This picture...