@AEF_Program 24 Alumni Fellow • @MoMath1 • #PAEMST @NCTM • @MAAnow
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Oh the Places You'll Go! Random Walk on Wall Street @profkeithdevlin @JohnAllenPaulos @timchartier @stevenstrogatz
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@EricaTuke @NWRMrsBaier @LeahLandrum_GVS @JennSWhite @LoveWDWmco @howie_hua Keep spreading this word! You can find this strategy in an "ancient" (1982, 1986, 1994) set of books... it makes such a difference!
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Can I get an Open Letter of Mathematicians stating we should stop trying to rush through math in K-12????
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What you #notice and #wonder about this image? What does it say to you? #maths #math #ITeachMath #education
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Integrals with the differential as a numerator irk me considerably. #calculus #ITeachMath
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Yes! And the below was maybe before whiteboards were in use. All students can ask and answer questions. Students learn to believe math comes from their questions.
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Where do I send the money? #iteachmath
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Yes I am ab-normally pleased this now exists. Thanks @MoMath1 ! @alittlestats @profkeithdevlin @timchartier @approx_normal @maanow @TheSIAMNews
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I am skeptical of all #education research. Particularly research in which sweeping claims of a single answer to questions about learning, pedagogy, literacy, and knowledge are made.
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Child: will you teach me how to make a cake?
Parent: sure. Watch me, listen attentively: there will be quizzes & cold calls. Don’t touch anything, remember you’re a novice!
Sounds ridiculous, right? This is what happens when you try to make specious analogies about instruction.
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After 29 1/2 years of #teaching, I finally admitted that I had a problem, and made a #resolution to take Saturdays off, which I have now kept for 2 months. Wish me continued luck. #ITeachMath
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Dear fellow twitter user, asking speculative questions and testing theories is part of how mathematicians and scientists create new discoveries and innovations.
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This is good stuff! And know this is nothing new: here’s my homework from 1978 #ITeachMath
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Subtweeting: don’t ever fall back on “there isn’t enough time in the course to properly #teach the material”. Why are we designing courses that we can’t finish? Who are we serving? #ITeachMath
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I've learned that this "new way" of doing long division has been called "new" since at least... 1706.
Research at @librarycongress 😃
#iTeachMath #EinsteinFellows24 #math #education
ALT the partial quotients method of long division
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“There's a weird branding phenomenon happening with "The Science of____” in education used to describe a handful of practices & processes related to cognition & the brain: “there is no such thing as “the science of learning” @HumResPro humanrestorationproject.org/…
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Math teacher on college tour with daughter. Guide: “after those classes, you won’t have to take math again, thank goodness” 😮 somehow I restrain self from embarrassing daughter. 😬 #Mathed colleagues everywhere, we have the power to change this. @stevenstrogatz #iTeachMath
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Cold calling? Raising hands? 🤔 there are alternatives and tips for questioning students in class. (Book: Motivation Counts, 1994) @joboaler @mathyawp @DrKChilds #iteachmath #PAEMST #equity
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Misunderstandings of what some people call “inquiry-based approach” are as common as misunderstandings of what some call “explicit instruction”
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"when teachers direct student learning, students are slightly more likely to be successful in solving the easiest mathematics problems in PISA. Yet as the problems become more difficult, students with more exposure to direct instruction no longer have a better chance of success."
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“There is an extensive body of research which shows how, from a very early age, children are engaged as active agents in their learning and learn through play. They test hypotheses, problem solve and come up with creative solutions.” bps.org.uk/psychologist/how-…
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Cranky old math teacher speaking here, getting ready for next year. These. Things. Should. Not. Be. News. Keep spreading the word. Thank you to many such as @NCTM @amtnj @robertqberry @DingleTeach @hpicciotto @steve_leinwand @ilana_horn @TracyZager @geoffkrall #iTeachMath #MTBoS
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I’d tell you you were making stuff up and contributing nothing to the discussion about improving instruction in classrooms.
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How do we get visual tools for calculus into every classroom, curriculum, textbook? @giohio @dynamic_math @MattBoelkins @dbressoud @joboaler @stevenstrogatz #iteachmath pantozzi.net/FTC3/
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The statement “We always should be teaching students the most efficient way to solve a problem first.” is simply incorrect. #iTeachMath
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Surprise! Significant learning gains have been shown in students who are prompted to generate explanations as opposed to being provided with an explanation or simply reviewing material.
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The idea that imperfect humans can work together to create a more perfect society while remaining imperfect... and that we can expand our definition of "humanity" beyond "humanity" ...but that it's not easy...? priceless. #startrek @JonathanDelArco @JeriLRyan @SirPatStew
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"#Mathematics can help transform students into better thinkers—but only if we allow and help students develop and practice those thinking skills. Mimicking procedures is not enough."
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"explicit Instruction minimizes (prevents) anxiety, benefits all learners, and is very efficient" is a thought worth unpacking #ITeachMath
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This seems to be what some people are thinking of when they talk about the “good old days” of #math #education
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I am beginning the #calculus year with integrals. This is the proper way. 😉 #ITeachMath
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I have learned to say “what makes sense about this” or “ask a question about this” rather than “does that make sense” #ITeachMath
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12th grader: "you said something that really stuck with me and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since. You said something about how the type of math student you are should not be defined by how good you were at those 60 second #math worksheets... #ITeachMath
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Subtweeting: don’t ever fall back on “there isn’t enough time in the course to properly #teach the material”. Why are we designing courses that we can’t finish? Who are we serving? #ITeachMath
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“Words matter. Words convey and confirm how we treat each other. When it comes to #mathematics, seemingly innocent words have a lot of power.” - @mdrzavala mariazavalaphd.com/2019/08/0…
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BREAKING: Leaked documents from @NCTM reveal efforts to subvert families’ dislike of #math and nurture students’ positive math identities. Radical agenda for enabling students to critique the world. Indoctrination into belief in the power of their own efforts. #education
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This is the way we taught #math in 1978. Fine then, fine now.
Obama's Common Core was the final nail in the coffin of public education.
This is how they teach math now:
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The one thing to know about the history of education is there is a cycle of traditionalist backlash to any innovation that shows success with students and threatens their preferred orthodoxy. At the moment, it's Building Thinking Classrooms. #iTeachMath
ALT t Anna Stokke reposted Zach Groshell 3h The one thing to know about the history of education is there is a cycle in which a romantic, minimally guided approach gets hyped as revolutionary, fails in practice, and gets rebranded with another shiny name. At the moment, it's called Building Thinking Classrooms.
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Joining the bandwagon… we shouldn’t let the needs of those who will use math in a narrow range of STEM fields dictate when, where, how and what everyone learns math. #ITeachMath
What opinion about math education would have you like this?
ALT Flynn Rider from the movie Tangled with a whole bunch of swords around him. He doesn't seem phased.
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1979: “There is a misconception among people and school children about the nature of mathematics,” said Anneli Lax, professor of mathematics at New York University. “They consider it a matter of rules and regulations instead of thinking.”
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It’s a wrap on my 20th @NCTM conference. Not pictured here are the people who contribute to my evolving understanding of the different qualities of and ways people experience #math #education. I appreciate how we as a community connect. #NCTMCHI24
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When I see something “brand new” in math ed I often pull out this book from 1970. So important to see where we’ve been as we look forward. (Spoilers: we’ve known a lot of things for a long time!) Looking forward to centennial! @robertqberry @EdDickeyUSC @TrenaWilkerson @NCTM
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Subtweet: the “You’re there to teach #math, nothing else” crowd seems to believe math includes national defense and the defense of capitalism 🤔
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#math student quote of the day today: “more learning, less assessing, please.“ #education
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Thank you to @NCTM for helping me become the teacher I am today, and pointing the way forward for teachers and students everywhere. @NCTM @robertqberry @NSF_EHR @NSF_EHR #PAEMST #MTBoS #math #STEM #equity #Iteachmath paemst.org/finalist_profile/…
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When you’ve got novices, you actually need to listen to their thinking, not just get on with explaining things to them – you have to give them problems to solve so you can see how they are interpreting the ideas you are presenting”
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When someone says it's important for kids to engage in inquiry, they don’t mean they want students to “struggle aimlessly and discover everything for themselves."
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Wow, this is bringing out the trolls. Please retweet widely. 😎 #equity #socialjustice #iteachmath #MTBoS @blaw0013 @robertqberry
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None of the previous posts about this book gave me the right sense of scale. I was taken aback upon its arrival today. So, for future reference, “Proofs” photographed with other common household objects. #math @LongFormMath
ALT Definitely bigger than my toaster
ALT Comparable in size to Thomas and Finney’s seventh edition
ALT As big as a large container of laundry detergent
ALT Photo of the book showing it is 4 Rubiks cubes tall
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😇😇😇 “The final files that you submitted for your manuscript have been checked and found to be suitable for publication.
Sincerely, #MTLT @NCTM Editorial Office” #ITeachMath
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I want to help make a world where 89 and 90 are considered the same grade. Because they are the same grade. #ITeachMath
Officially on summer break today so I went to DMV to renew my license. LOL. First year teaching HS done… emails about kids wanting 89% bumped up to 90% is hectic. My view is nearly all stay that way or I am treating students unfairly.
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“No one in government could stand up at that time and say ‘This is wrong.’ And that includes gay people.” 🧐
nytimes.com/2022/12/19/us/ja…
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The goal is to keep #math students learning more math, not to whittle down the numbers of students who are succeeding. #education
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Watching as different people spin their own narratives with this piece. There are no heroes in “math wars”; we all lose.
NEW: Jo Boaler of Stanford is the most influential math-education expert in the country. She’s helping draft a framework for how California should teach math. But critics say her claims don’t always add up.
My @chronicle cover story on the math wars. 🧵 chronicle.com/article/the-di…
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Did you ever wonder why so few of our #math curricula make explanatory methods like this central to students’ experiences? #ITeachMath
New TikTok video: Have you ever wondered why the geometric mean of 2 numbers is sqrt(ab)? Here's how we can see it visually!
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I have not seen strong evidence that we won’t be saying very similar things about calculus in 2087. This would be to the detriment of calculus, math, our students, and society. @stevenstrogatz @averypickford @joboaler @Freakonomics @profkeithdevlin
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Newton was an underachiever. By the age of 12, Émilie du Châtelet spoke 6 languages. While raising 3 children and managing the household, by the age of 31 she predicted infrared light. Before she was 42, she derived the Law of Conservation of Energy (correcting Newton). 😉
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Keep questioning how we define “honors” and “accelerated” in #math #education
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A #math class should not be a place where you are always on your defensive. It can be a place where you learn how to trust others, how to work with others in community, communicate your ideas without shame… make errors… @stevenstrogatz @mathyawp
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I can imagine a version of high school #education that is not focused on memorizing a whole bunch of stuff.
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The best way to handle the “Why are we learning this?” question for early-grade #math, in my opinion, is to teach the basics in a way that is sufficiently interesting and stimulating that the question doesn’t arise. - @profkeithdevlin
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When you get a #COVID19 #vaccine appointment, and then you get one of the 30 registration desks at random, and then the representative says, you were my #calculus #math teacher in 2001. #ITeachMath
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