My favorite unpopular posts

2007 May 21
by Denise

I get a bit tired of the various memes [definition: things to blog about when you have no ideas of your own, a state with which I can easily identify!] that float around the blogsphere—songs from A’s iPod, irrelevant things that nobody knew about B, or C’s favorite TV commercials… But Dana at Principled Discovery has “lifted” [from ejabs.com] a new meme that actually looks interesting.

Objective: Share ten of your favorite posts, although they went largely unnoticed in the broader blogosphere.

My top two ignored favorites are easy to name:

Story problem challenge
Story problem challenge revisited

Other languishing posts on teaching math:

The “Aha!” factor
Pre-algebra problem-solving: preschool and early elementary
Proportions II

My neglected favorites about family life or homeschooling:

Kid do the craziest things
Finding the limit
Why am I always the straight man?

And to round things out, a couple of rarely-visited quotations posts:

Math quotes of the week V
Math quotes VII

I encourage my fellow-bloggers to join in on this meme and resurrect your own lost-in-the-ether gems. Even if these posts get no new traffic, I have had fun digging them up and remembering.


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4 Responses leave one →
  1. 2007 May 21

    I like your definition of a meme! I’ll stop by again later and give your posts the appreciation they deserve.

  2. 2007 May 21

    My first definition included the phrase “when your brain is dead,” but my brain was just barely alive enough to notice that some people would take that as an insult. Oh, the importance of editing!

  3. 2007 May 21

    I like the math story problems, the one that started out,”Mrs. Sterns has two different recipes of cookies she is going to make…” I have one glass of milk, how many cookies will it take to make my glass look empty? lol

  4. 2007 May 22

    Too funny, Mr. Stern!

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