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Gentle readers: It's been a busy autumn.* The math team is doing quite well; we have 44 points out of 60 on the CAML moving into the third round (yes, that's very good, and yet we're only just getting going)* SAT prep is going well as always, but the new development...

Just a quick announcement that Urban High School of San Francisco has started a math competition team this year, with yours truly as the coach. It's clear from the first meeting that this is going to be fun.(Other Bay Area schools, you're on notice: we're comin' for...

An interesting problem came up in conversation with a College Preparatory School freshman the other day, so I thought I'd share it with you: 100! (pronounced "one hundred, factorial") is the result of taking "100 times 99 times 98 times..." and so on, all the way down...

Hello from vacation! New York City, as it happens. I'm spending the summer emphatically not working, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy a little math every now and again.Perhaps that's true for you, too. So, here are the titles of a few books I read last year, and...

As I see it, the issue that's missing here is this: a good teacher will use examples to illustrate a point, whereas a great teacher will convey the underlying point in a way that will prompt the student to generate the examples him- or herself.

This is the part of the current overarching financial picture that worries me most: parents simply unable to send their kids to college.