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Teaching Number Names and Numerals

Numerals are not numbers

Mar 21 • Dan Murphy

Teaching Math Rightly

Now it's personal...

Mar 15 • Dan Murphy

Recovering Contemplation in an Age of Total Work

Technology and the Fate of Leisure

Feb 14 • Dan Murphy

"No One Uses It Rightly"

Teaching Elementary Arithmetic as a Liberal Art

Jan 3 • Dan Murphy

Recovering Educational Freedom Part 3

When Teachers Stopped Being Schoolmasters

Dec 6, 2025

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The One-Room Schoolhouse: how bad was it?

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Teaching and [Re]Learning Mathematics

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Teaching Math Rightly

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Why We Struggle With Math

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What Schools Forget

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