Chapter 5. Going Further

We hope that this book has given you a mix of philosophical and practical advice for using our Make: math books either to teach someone math, or to fill in some holes in your own knowledge. In Chapter 1, we focused on philosophy, and in Chapter 2 on an overview of the technologies you might need to know to use our books effectively. Finally, in Chapters 3 and 4, we provided a guide to the topics in our books and ideas to assess student learning.

The main thing we hope we have left you with is increased confidence in your ability to teach math outside the worksheet-and-whiteboard paradigm. At a minimum, we hope we have convinced you that teaching hands-on as much as possible might be a good thing. The key thing to consider ...

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