Back in March at the T3 conference in Philadelphia, I had a chance to interview Leland Melvin. Melvin is a former football player and former astronaut. Currently, he serves as the NASA Associate Administrator for Education, and he was the keynote speaker that opened up the T3 conference. Melvin was gracious enough to spend a few… Continue Reading
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T3 Stream of Conciousness
In honor of one of my favorite sports bloggers, Robert of alioneye.com, I’m doing a “stream of conciousness” post to wrap up my thoughts on last weekend’s T3 conference. There’s no method or plan to this. I’ve just had a lot of random thoughts about my time in Philadelphia, none of which would make a… Continue Reading
Top 10 Pi Day 2013 Stories From Around the Web
I decided not to write my own Pi Day post this year, but instead share some of the interesting stories from major news outlets. After all, I’m not likely to beat the quality of a story from USA Today, CNN, or the Huffington Post, so here are 10 of the best that I found. 1.… Continue Reading
Math Gifts for 2012
Christmas will be here before you know it. Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and older siblings (even significant others) are always looking for ways to encourage students and lifelong learners to foster their mathematical learning. One way is a Christmas math gift. … Continue Reading
Back to School Sales 2012
Hard to believe that it’s that time again already, but school is almost upon us. My district starts early, with teachers reporting for duty next Tuesday. I’m sure most of you are fortunate enough to have at least another week or two off before getting back at it. Of course, this also means it is… Continue Reading
Headed to Honduras
This is a very unusual post for Tech Powered Math, but I’m going to be “off the grid” for a couple of weeks. I want to explain why because I’ll be slower than usual at responding to emails, Tweets, etc. In a few days, I’ll be flying from St. Louis to Honduras as part of… Continue Reading
STEM and 3D Printers
I’ll be the first to say, this is a bit of a random post. I just wanted to show all of you one of the more unusual exhibits I had the opportunity to check out at the T3 conference in Chicago a couple of months back. It was a 3D printer from a company called… Continue Reading
A Championship Peformance
The pace of my posts on TPM has slowed the last couple of weeks. There are multiple reasons for that, including other internet projects I’m working on, but the main reason has been I’ve been very focused on something special I’ve been doing at school. I don’t often post in specifics about my day job… Continue Reading
Hackers Bring Tetris and 3D Graphing to Casio Prizm
I must admit that I’m not that good at keep up to date with the active community of graphing calculators hackers. I was interested to learn via an email update from the Cemetech staff that they have made significant inroads in their efforts to pimp out the Casio Prizm over the last couple of months.… Continue Reading
Leapfrog Fridge Phonics Review
Click here to get the Fridge Phonics toy from Leapfrog.com. In a bit of a change from the kinds of reviews I normally do on Tech Powered Math, I’m reviewing an educational toy for little kids. My wife and I had our first child 16 months ago, and she’s starting to get interested in these… Continue Reading