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Bookmark or Share- Math for English Majors – Math with Bad DrawingsMy new book, out September 3 rd, is Math for English Majors: A Human Take on the Universal Language. It is my shortest, pithiest, purplest book to date, and it wrestles with the biggest, most sprawling questions. What exactly is the math we teach in schools? Why do so many of us struggle to wring meaning from it it?
- About - Math with Bad DrawingsMy name is Ben Orlin, and I live in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I have taught everyone from 11-year-olds to undergraduates — mostly math, but with occasional forays into Psychology, Biology, English, Theory of Knowledge, and even Earth Science (the latter to no one’s benefit, least of all the Earth’s).
- Math for the masses | Where They Are Now - Yale Alumni MagazineWhen math major Ben Orlin ’09 decided he wasn’t suited for a career in higher education, he turned instead to teaching his subject to middle- and high-schoolers. After seven years, he retired from teaching—but he’s still an educator, via his popular blog, Math with Bad Drawings .
- Math with Bad Drawings – Lover of math. Bad at drawing.Ben Orlin Math, puzzles 14 Comments October 24, 2024 October 23, 2024 2 Minutes Edgar Degas, mathematician. On an artist who sought "movement in its exact truth."
- Change is the Only Constant – Math with Bad Drawings“In Ben Orlin’s delightful treatment, calculus is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get next.” – Steven Strogatz , professor of mathematics at Cornell University and author of Infinite Powers
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