User:MCrawford

From AoPSWiki

My name is Mathew Crawford and I was formerly an administrator for Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), manager of the AoPSWiki, as well as the manager for the online school. I still write books for AoPS. My email address is crawford.mathew @ gmail.com.

AoPS recently published my first book, Introduction to Number Theory

Teaching

I enjoy teaching, so I'll list more of my past teaching experience than anyone would care to know about:

• AoPS Classes -- I wrote and taught most of the classes at AoPS.
• Math Jams -- I've taught quite a few of them.
• Instructor for Avid Academy (2006)
• Private math instructor (2002-2003, 2006)
• San Diego Math Circle (2003-2006)
• Coach of San Diego ARML (2006, 2007)
• 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

• USAMO 1973 #2
• Algebraic Problem Solving II
• Algebraic Problem Solving I

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

• War Games

Articles

• How to Write a Solution (also by Richard Rusczyk).
• Three Types of Probability

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 (B movies are funny)
• 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
• The Ali-G Show
• Deadwood
• Battlestar Gallactica
• Star Treks (some seasons)
• The Young Ones
• Dune miniseries
• Six Feet Under
• 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