Back in 2018 I gave a talk at an IHOP in San Luis Obispo. A former teacher had read one of my books in the local bookstore in Morro Bay, and gave the bookstore his phone number for me to contact him. I did so, and we met and talked. He was fascinated with my disclosures and ideas about math education and asked if I would like to give a talk at a future meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Politics make strange bedfellows, and I have found that many politically conservative people share the same ideas about education as I do, though we disagree on just about everything else. (In fact, my first article on math education was published in Education Next, which was then published under the auspices of the Hoover Institution. Friends of mine were aghast that I was associating with such conservatives, but they liked what I had to say in the article.)
I gave a presentation at the local IHOP in February 2018. It was the same talk I gave at my first researchED conference I attended which was held at Oxford University in 2016. They didn’t record my talk at the conference, so I used this opportunity to record my words for posterity.
I had opened a YouTube channel to post the video, which was generously recorded and edited by a fellow math teacher with whom I had worked, and whose sideline was making videos at weddings, and other events. Over the years, my YouTube channel vanished and I couldn’t find the video. But I just discovered it is available at a YouTube channel that my fellow math teacher has.
The people who attended were very nice, and we didn’t get into any political discussions, other than math education. And I got a free breakfast at IHOP!
I hope you enjoy it!