Michael Pershan

Teacher and Writer

Education & Mathematics

I wrote a book, Teaching Math With Examples, (John Catt, 2021).

You can read an excerpt from it and you can also see some of my own example activities.

Here are some other education-related things that can give you a sense of my work:

 

Fiction & Humor

  • I also write short humor and fiction.
  • I have a Substack blog where I write about short stories and share short bits of fiction.
  • My humor has been published in The American Bystander, McSweeney's, Points in Case, Slackjaw and Tablet before it got weird.
  • My fiction has been published or is forthcoming in BULL, The American Bystander, HAD, Outlook Springs, MoonPark Review, Does It Have Pockets? and hex literary.
  • I wrote a poem once and it was published in Farewell Transmission.

Selected Writing

Bystander & 251

I'm an enthusiastic and frequent contributor to The American Bystander, which Newsweek called "the last great great humor magazine." For a year or so I pitched in on editorial work, which including running 251, the Bystander's short humor site. Here is my Bystander work, with short stories bolded because they took longer to write.