Starbirdthink

10/03/2017

Scientists must do better at educating the public about their work - Written by Michael Starbird & Jay Banner

It is alarming that many members of society distrust science and question its value and validity. Advances in science are increasingly central to...

03/14/2015

Happy Pi Day! Professor Starbird talked about Pi this morning on Austin's KXAN Austin News morning show, and included a little puzzle for you. Enjoy Pi!

The first 13 trillion digits of Pi have been determined.

01/21/2015

UT produced a lovely video on Professor's Starbird's course - enjoy!

This is "MOOC: Effective Thinking Through Mathematics" by UT Austin CTL on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

02/18/2014

We've launched!

Hello all and Good Morning North America!

We've launched and are looking forward to talking about puzzles with you in the discussion forums - please come join us!

Dr. K

01/27/2014

Reviewing final stages of the course and listening to Professor Starbird talk about techniques for intentionally thinking up new ideas. Can't wait to get started with Starbirdthink!

01/21/2014

January Update - we've been working with Princeton Press and Wiley to get access for you to the texts during the course. We're very excited about this and the opportunity to bring you work from the '5 Elements of Thinking' and the 'Heart of Math' book. Thanks for all your questions on this and we'll looking forward to seeing you in February!

12/31/2013

Hello and Happy New Year!
Rather than starting on January 21st, we will begin the ‘Effective Thinking Through Mathematics’ course on February 18th. During the past few months we have enjoyed creating content for this MOOC to help you learn effective thinking through mathematics. We were having so much fun that we filmed far more hours of students joyfully exploring ideas than we can include in this first version of this MOOC. So we are now distilling the course down to a more engaging size.

This MOOC is based on two books by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird: “The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking” and “The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking,” and the MOOC includes excerpts from these books. Neither book is required for the course, but we have arranged with Princeton University Press to give interested edX participants a 25% discount on the book "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking.” We've send emails to everyone enrolled with the link!

Thanks to all of you for joining us, and we are very excited about hearing from you in the coming months!

Happy New Year,

Professor Michael Starbird and the ‘Effective Thinking Through Mathematics’ Team

12/06/2013

We've reached 600! Wow! We are very excited and busily finalizing filming. Hope you are all doing well!

10/16/2013

Hello all! Yesterday we started taping our sessions on the concept of infinity and techniques for understanding simple things deeply. We're happy to have you joining us and look forward to working with you in the course!

10/03/2013

We just launched enrollment for "Effective Thinking through Mathematics" with Professor Starbird!

Effective Thinking Through MathematicsLearn tools of effective thinking through puzzles and the world of mathematics around you in this fun and fascinating course. ABOUT THIS COURSE A wondrously romantic belief is that brilliant thinkers magically produce brilliant ideas: Einstein jostles his hair a...