

I want to learn more about cars, specifically to try to reach this type of kid.
I had one car obsessed kid that I sorta won over with “let’s try to model car parts with geometric solids and think about volume as it pertains to things like gas tanks,” but I don’t know enough about cars to really make the kinds of deep connections I know could be there.
I have a good rapport with anime and gamer teens usually. Minecraft is a godsend, because almost everyone has played it and you can tie so much math and science shit into it. I’ve learned more from this YouTube channel than I did from my fossil fuel funded undergrad geology classes.














Oh that’s delightful.
I watched some videos on medieval math education recently, and I’ve been wanting to create a unit or something themed around what you’d learn as a medieval student.
I emphasize history a lot more than any math teacher I’ve known, but I think it can be effective. The Pythagorean theorem is absolutely critical to memorize and understand, and it can be very fun to go into all the Pythagoras cult stuff.