Math: Spending a Week on #1.

Literally. And by #1, we don't mean you. Or me. The actual concept of the amount represented by the numeric symbol of 1. Could you teach Kindergartners about the numbers one and two for a whole week? Thanks to alert reader* Christy Tomisek--a Thrasher parent--for sharing this article with us about Singapore math, new math, back-to-basics math, reform math, new new math, and our own Everyday Math.

And also from Mrs. Tomisek: Dance Your PhD! Check out this article and the following video.

Synthetic lethality screen for an anticancer treatment. from Radek Lach on Vimeo.

* Holy Guacamole! We have a reader?!