Thinking back to your school days, it is easy to pick out who your “good” teachers were and who your “bad” teachers were. What criteria do you use to decide who the “good” and “bad” were? Do you base your evaluations on how you performed on standardized tests that you took while you were under…

People’s reactions when I tell them that I hold a degree in mathematics are varied. Some people are surprised, some are impressed, some are a little presumptuous (“oh, so you’re going to be a teacher?”), but there is one response I get that is far more common than the others. “Oh boy, I could never…