Ben Orlin loves math and cannot draw. He is mostly known as "the math with bad drawings guy." He has taught middle school, high school, and college math, spoken at conferences and universities across the U.S., and has written (as well as badly illustrated) four books: Math with Bad Drawings (2018), Change is the Only Constant (2019), Math Games with Bad Drawings (2022), and Math for English Majors (2024). He lives in Saint Paul, MN with his wife, their two daughters, and his inordinate fondness for sweets. Email: mathwithbaddrawings [at] gmail.com
Website: https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/
by Ben Orlin There is something reassuring about teaching math. On the eve of a pivotal election, as my colleagues in U.S. history grapple with their subject’s urgent and terrible relevance, I can console myself that math is rarely urgent, and (as we tend to teach it) almost never relevant. Or so it would seem.…