User:MCrawford
My name is Mathew Crawford and I am one of the administrators, teachers, and curriculum developers at Art of Problem Solving. I help manage the AoPSWiki and if you have any problems with the AoPSWiki or any other part of the AoPS network, I will do my best to assist you. My email address is crawford@artofproblemsolving.com.
Contents
Teaching
I enjoy teaching, so I'll list more of my past teaching experience than anyone would care to know about:
- AoPS Classes -- I write and teach many classes at AoPS.
- Math Jams -- I've taught quite a few of them.
- San Diego Math Circle (2003-2006)
- Coach of San Diego ARML (2006)
- Co-coach of Missouri ARML (1996-97)
- Mountain Brook Geometry Math Team (1991-1992)
- Private college math tutor (1995-1996, 2002-2003)
- Hundreds of hours of volunteer math tutoring (1990-1995)
Hobbies
I enjoy juggling, playing the guitar, and playing ultimate frisbee.
AoPS blog
I blog here. Here are some of my posts:
Currently, these links are broken due to the new blog format. I'll fix them soon.
AoPS
- Three Types of Probability
- No Stakes Poker...And Something Else
- Educational BitTorent
- ARML and AoPS
- Writing a Math Textbook
- Moving Day
Math Lessons
Math Contests
- ARML 2006
- San Diego ARML
- Skip and Return Later
- Number Theory and Calculation Errors
- Math Tournament Test Taking Strategy
- Competition Tests vs. Problem Solving
- The Mandelbrot Competition
- AMC Math Jam
Education
- Budgeting for the Future...or...Building a Flying Machine
- No Smart Child Left Behind
- The Era of the Mathematician
- Time Spent Studying Math
- Want a Good Job as an Adult? Math/Sci/Engineering in Demand
- Progression of Maturity
- Math Chat
- MIT Admissions Math Jam
- Do Software Engineers Need Mathematics?
- Cut-the-Knot
- Students Teaching Students
- Educational BitTorent
- Evolution of Technology in Education
- Girls in Mathematics
- Differentiated Instruction and the Internet Age
- The Government Education Debacle
- College Decisions
- The Arbelos
Technology
- Millenium Problem Wiki
- Mathematically Random Music
- NSF Funds New Internet
- Students Teaching Students
- Educational BitTorent
- Evolution of Technology in Education
- Differentiated Instruction and the Internet Age
Humor
- Psychics Race Poo Specialist in Hunt for Prized Whippet Vivi
- Fermi's Paradox
- No Stakes Poker...And Something Else
- Too Amusing Not to Share
- Geek Pranksters
- AoPS Logs
Art
Articles
Math Contests
As a member of the math team of Louis Pizitz Middle School and Vestavia Hills High School, I felt the following mathematics competitions were beneficial to my early education:
- AMC (AIME and USAMO)
- ARML (see Alabama ARML)
- MathCounts (see Alabama MathCounts)
- Mu Alpha Theta
Favorite Media
Books
It will take a long time to make this list, but here's a start:
- Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
- The Hitchhiker's Guide series and anything else by Douglas Adams
- Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow series by Orson Scott Card
- The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
- The Watchmen
- Harry Potter series
Movies
Ditto on the beginning
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Donnie Darko
- Boondock Saints
- Harry Potter movies
- War Games
- The Matrix (but not so much the sequels)
- Pitch Black
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Man on the Moon
- The Crow
- Serenity
- The Last Dragon
- Dune (movies and miniseries)
- Searching for Bobby Fischer
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Television
I don't watch much television and don't have cable, but there are a few shows I enjoy:
- The Daily Show
- Firefly
- Deadwood
- Battlestar Gallactica
- Star Treks (some seasons)
- The Young Ones
- Dune miniseries
- South Park
- The Family Guy
- X-Files
- Arrested Development
- M.A.S.H.
- Cheers
- The Simpsons (though it's been overplayed with me)
Music
In no particular order:
- Radiohead
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Postal Service
- Jump Little Children
- The Flaming Lips
- Fishbone
- Modest Mouse
- Asian Dub Foundation
- 311 (just the older stuff)
- U2
- Year of the Rabbit
- They Might Be Giants
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
