Episode description
Episode description
Professor, Mathematician and Writer John A. Paulos joins the show to discuss math education, the power of puzzles, cognitive biases, and MUCH more!
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Show Notes:
- Why Do People Hate Math?
- The Power of Posing Problems with Counterintuitive or Shocking Results
- Using Everyday Examples to Understand Math Concepts
- Systems Designed to Take Advantage of Innumeracy
- People’s Ignorance of Randomness and Random Samples
- The Strange Power of Anchoring Bias
- Tradeoffs between Probability and Plausibility
- The Prisoner’s Dilemma & Math Anxiety
- Improving the Monty Hall Problem
- Designing an Ideal Intro Math Course
- The Big Brother Aspect of Nudging
- John as Emperor of the World
- MORE!
Books Mentioned:
- Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences; by J.A. Paulos
- A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market; by J.A. Paulos
- A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper; by J.A. Paulos
- Statistics; by D.A. Freedman, R. Pisani, and R.A. Purves
- Thinking Fast and Slow; by Daniel Kahneman