Classroom Teacher

My teaching career started in 2007 at Trinity-Pawling School in NY state, home of the "Mighty Fourths" soccer team.  During my time teaching at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, I cofounded a mathematical art program for grades 3-12, which included a high school seminar, a middle school elective, and an all-school mathematical art festival called MArTH Madness. Details of the Saint Ann's math art program can be found in our paper.  Since 2013, I have been at my alma mater, John Burroughs School, where I also run the school's makerspace and its Guild of Geeks club.  I teach mostly geometry to 9th graders and a multivariable calculus class.  I present mathematics as a profoundly human art, that anyone can do and enjoy.

Independent Educator

In 2014, I founded Art of Math STL so that I could share mathematics with kids outside of the math classroom. In addition to private sessions, I ran a pair of math circles at Reed Elementary.

Math Blogger

For many years, I've coauthored Math Munch, a site where anyone can find a curious and enticing thread to follow out into the mathematical internet.
For a couple of years I wrote a blog about math and school, called Lost in Recursion.  For the time being it can still be seen.
Young Paul, circa 2007, at Trinity-Pawling School.  An overhead projector shines through the nameplate my sister made me when she was in 6th grade.

Math Munch at TEDxNYED 2013