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Explosive and Colorful Ideas about Math Education

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A collection of people explaining complicated things really REALLY well!

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I teach 6th grade math and high school geometry at a New England private school where I also coach and tell corny jokes.

I like solving problems and learning about almost anything; I am currently working on JavaScript! Board games are great too. I also like to hike and sleep outside.

I somehow have a wife and a young Bernese Mountain Dog who likes to chew on coffee table books. I mean the dog not the wife. My wife doesn't chew on coffee...oh forget it.

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