Are we sure they didn't mean ICE? Still messed up...
Former HS Math teacher looking for my next role. I write about math, education, music, food, parenting, travel, tinkering... all with a side of snarkiness, sarcasm and self-deprecation.
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Are we sure they didn't mean ICE? Still messed up...
My wife and a few of her colleagues went to picket for the teachers union this afternoon at a nearby major intersection. Apparently they only were called libtards once. ... And the obligatory, "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it" -Mitch hedberg
Yeah, the wife is sensitive to smells as well... I was thinking of using it exclusively with the grill/smoker outside, just have to remember to close the kitchen window.
I've been eying pizza stones on Marketplace the past few days... and encouraging the wife to get her sourdough up and running again. (i'm the primary cook but don't have the patience for baking... something something measuring)
Today Trevor Story hit what is being called the 2nd shortest HR in MLB history at 306ft (pic1) The shortest (non inside the park) HR is credited to Lorenzo Cain, also at the Pesky Pole in Fenway (pic2) By what metric is the ball that goes over a guys head shorter than the one that hits the pole?
Sadly, it's a fairly common scenario: GE, Sears, Jerry Jones, Twitter...
I'm not "in it" so I can't speak for the change... but it definitely sounds like people aren't happy with it. That said, I also remember all of us being upset when the AB search cut out user generated activities, that sucked too.
Amplify is the current scapegoat for all that is bad in the world. I went to the grocery store and there was no cottage cheese. Damn you amplify.
I work from home in my $10 Costco athletic shorts... The problem comes when I have to leave the house and don't want to change
One of my favorite number videos... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSc...
The oft forgotten decimal! Mostly unrelated, but the "pick a number" bit reminds me of the game where everybody picks a number 0-100 and the idea is to guess closest to ⅔ (or ½) of the average. Inevitably there is somebody who picks 75 and it's really hard not to mock them.
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Weird... I've never seen a chicken with 5 legs
Random sports-stat of the day... Shaq missed more free throws during the 2000-2001 season (473) than Steph Curry has missed his entire career (392)
The telling thing is that I'm just now seeing this (an hour after the game is over) and I (think i) know the one throw your referring to... So many underthrown balls. Also horrible play calling...
Aw shit. Those are way less fun. Sending the best
Yeah, i tended to write (or at tweak past versions) depending on the flow of the previous class... When one has multiple preps, that's a lot.
Aw, I kinda miss those..... Its probably been 10 years since I got those with any regularity. Now I rarely see the other side of midnight.
Yeah... sharing is always a step in the right direction. I just want something that makes the discovery easy. I have a shittily organized drive folder of all the docs I've shared on Twitter, but it's not easily browsable or conducive to actually finding anything in particular.
As I used to tell my students - I dont really care if you get the right answer (which I would argue is "doing" math) I want to see your thought process. Id much rather they get the wrong answers but with sound logic than the right answer with faulty logic. Everybody can problem solve.
Yeah, my wish are things outside the standard Stewart/ Larson instruction, whatever. DeltaMath/ Kura problems... Those have a place, but aren't unique I want a place for engaging, creative, unique tasks outside the norm. They're out there, just hard to find in the moment you want/ need one.
My son's new soccer team has a Jude and a Judd... they are of similar stature, hair color/cut and melanin. I'm screwed. That said, I once taught identical twins and by the end of the year could them apart from across the field. So maybe there is hope?
My memory is awful. After 20yrs of teaching I now know most things. but early on, I had to anchor my understanding in a few things & manipulate those to find the thing I needed I knew sin^2(x) + cos^2(x)=1, but couldn't remember the others.. but knew how to get them! More work, but less retention
The one i was trying to make had thumbnails of the activity, so you could at least get some insight right away, saving time digging through the weeds My vision is it needs to be unique tasks to make the cut, which in theory, eliminates 95% of the things that are already widely available/ redundant
I haven't had much luck getting chatGPT to actually engage with much higher level math (and I mean HS, not even the actually complex stuff) at a baseline level... i have minimal, if any faith, it could create actual engaging, meaningful, tasks.
To me a good task is less focused on the outcome, and more about providing a space for students to explore, to observe, see potential connections... the results can be solidified later. The collection of quality tasks is the most critical part.
My thought was minimize effort. I had it developed as a thumbnail image of the thing and a one sentence description. Too often there is way too much digging to find tasks. Blogs are great, but people talk about their process for 3pgs before sharing the document. Make the thing known within seconds
One of my biggest struggles as a teacher was coming up with (finding) interesting tasks Yrs ago I tried to develop a keyword searchable database of interesting problems/ activities/ tasks... but my lack of coding abilities (& time) proved to be too much. How can we develop such a thing? #mtbos
Our govt is anti-vaccines because some wack-job claims they "are dangerous" and supposedly harm people. But are pro-guns, which actually are dangerous & really harm-people, with a rationale of the 2nd amendment... but are anti-free speech, which is the... 1st amendment. Did I get that right?
Also, if one is able-bodied (enough)-- walking. As exercise, as means of transit, as means to catch up with people (go with a friend or talk on the phone), as a way to meditate and recenter... Urban, in nature... there are always things to see
Solid list. Id be tempted to include Up as well, just bc that 1min montage.
Cooking. Playing a musical instrument. Gardening.
Found it. I definitely was not the originator of the idea... drive.google.com/file/d/1HEFO...
When I had students do this, it had a very student centric curricula. They were used to playing around with the material, usually a bit round about, then we'd solidify/ formalize the concepts as a class. The derivation of the product rule activity I used was pretty awesome...
Calculus teachers- Out of curiosity, how do you introduce the quotient rule? One of my favorite realizations was that it can be derived from the product rule... h(x)= f(x)/g(x) becomes h(x)*g(x)= f(x) then just product rule and solve for h'(x)
A woman has walked her dog by our house for yrs, often wearing OSU gear. We never talk but I always said "go blue" & she would either laugh (when we they were kicking our ass) or shake her head (when UM started winning) Today she walked by and I say "go longhorns" which got a WTF look
(also, glad to see you over on this platform! It's not the same, but we're trying...)
Honest question- is it school that's boring? Or is it that students are used to the constant dopamine of their devices and school can't compete? I think curricula/ pedagogy has to evolve for the modern age... but also question the cause/effect of constant stimulus.
About freaking time. In 2019 I added an "adulting" unit to my precalculus class....so many students said it was one of the best things they did in all of their math classes. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
Pumpkin Spice sucks. Yeah, I said it. Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice and cloves... you're all good enough on your own, no need tie your identity to a shitty blend.
Nicely done!! I started to try to figure out the angle w/law of cosines then saw the relationship between the horizontal distance, 4/3, and the radius, 4/3sqrt3 and realized it was a special right triangle... then just decided to "do" (thanks desmos) one "easy" integral - sector + triangle
Not even September and we have our first post-summer break school shooting.
The Barr Brothers and My Morning Jacket are two of my favorite bands... and now they have a song together?? (Jim James is the lead singer of MMJ) I miss Surprise Me Mr Davis (small "all star" band)... Now I have the pipe dream of Jim being added to the mix. open.spotify.com/track/6i5q6W...
Had I stayed in the classroom I likely would have evolved and embraced LaTeX
There was a period where Word did this to every Equation Editor equation, which was annoying. Then they stopped supporting Equation Editor all together, which was even more annoying bc it was the best program for writing editable equations.
In my lifetime the supreme court ruled that flag burning constitutes a form of "symbolic speech" that is protected by the First Amendment.
impressive! Mathematically it's crazy thinking you can make a 16mi diagonal across as 7x7 "square" I did a ton of urban explorations in SF, there are always new interesting things to find. I used to frequently end up at Ocean Beach or the Presidio... this was one of my longer "city center" walks.
I dunno... I left the classroom a few years ago and STILL have around $70 of gift-cards remaining on the Starbucks app... Sure, desperate times call for desperate measures, but unless I'm visiting in-laws in the middle of nowhere midwest without any other options, Starbucks is rarely the answer.
It was a rough day for coffee consumption... bsky.app/profile/math...
I taught AP calculus over a dozen times and never thought it was actually possible... A real world related rates cone problem. #mtbos #itaughtmath
Just learned that tomorrow night there is a concert at a mountain amphitheater an hour and 30 years away.
In my last 10 years in the classroom every school required i used their LMS (which seemed to change by the year). On each class's homepage I just had a link to the google drive folder which housed all their documents. Students had zero complaints.
What'd they do?!? I avoid the news on the weekend, it's not good for my attempts at detaching, but now i gotta go look some shit up...
Sorry if it came out as targeting you, or the topics you mentioned... not my intent. I'm tired of my liberal friends giving everybody shit for not being aligned with their views - not recycling a can when we are miles from a recycle bin, driving a few miles when i'm late instead of biking...
(Not saying we should embrace a W who we only agree with for a dislike of Cheetos... but there's gotta be some kind of middle ground between "my way or the highway")
I honestly think that the quest to get everything "right" is one of the reasons for the downfall of the democratic party... Nobody is perfect, our opinions aren't going to align with everybody at all times, and when somebody (inevitably) "messes up," we dismiss them or throw them to the wolves.
Getting one is the easy part- go to a shelter, play with some kittens, tell them which one you want 😉 As somebody else said, start them off in a smaller part of your house w/everything they need. Then slowly open up the space. If you get multiple, having them "bonded" makes for a more peaceful pair
Valid. I was thinking volume. Or could we say it's water then it's all the same, right?
Pad see ew. Work in progress. Cooking progression is on point, gotta tweak the sauce a bit more.
Reading a recipe made me think, without a conversation chart, can you arrange the following from biggest to smallest (some may be equal) 1/15 pint ⅛ cup 1 ounces 3 tablespoon 10 teaspoons
7years ago... it's even more scary out there
Appreciate the response. I'm no longer in the classroom so I haven't experienced any issues, just see the discussion on various platforms. People love your product People always struggle with change and change always has glitches. I do think an clear separation of identities will help.
Whenever i read these "two side" stories, i have a flashback to the John Oliver- Bill Nye climate change bit (which came out 11 years ago now??!?! Where'd the time go??) youtu.be/cjuGCJJUGsg
I thought so. Hopefully somebody in the know has some sort of connections to help people out. That Desmos-Amplify line in the sand seems to be creeping (probably more concrete than that... we just don't know the divide until something switches over) in a direction that people aren't happy with
Not sure it's your domain, but there is Desmos Educator FB group and there seem to be a lot of teachers... frustrated... with the pivot to amplify classroom.
Just got an email asking about tutoring a student in Marin, "I got your info from X a while ago" I worked with X from 2005-10. I tutored in Marin from 2010-14. I left the Bay Area in 2016. Can we really quantify "a decade" as "a while ago"?
Sometimes I forget that I have a ridiculous tree house in my backyard. Then somebody comes over for the first time... Today I sold something on marketplace, gave the cross streets and the person was like "with the tree house? I know your house!"
"Two-in-one shampoo. Two-in-one is bullshit term, because one is not big enough to hold two. That’s why two was created. If it [were] two-in-one, it would be overflowing. Bottle would be all sticky and shit."
Team mechanical pencil here. I had one of these through HS, through college into my first couple years of teaching when i loaned it to a student and never got it back... they then changed their grip (which i hated) so i had to overpay to get an older version on ebay...
One of my favorite "yup, this is SF" moments was at the farmers market. The strawberry stand is giving out samples. A dad takes one and hands it to his 3? 4? year old Her reply- "but is it organic?"
I've always known that Jamie Lee Curtis is a respected actress... but holy shit, her acting in The Bear is freaking incredible.
One of my go to dad/teacher jokes was the first time I made a mistake in class (aka the first day) a student would correct me, "oh yeah, thanks. I'm not very good with numbers" S who knew me rolled their eyes S who didn't would have this look of horror "but... but... You're my math teacher" "shhh"
A few of these boxes appeared on our bathroom counter. I'm guessing it was a late night, doom scrolling, target marketing purchase, with claims that may be valid... Or not. Either way, all I see is Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire. "Hellooooo"
Utrecht! I lived in Nijmegen when I was 12!! (Also I currently live in walking distance of the Denver Botanical Gardens, where that tiktok was made)
I believe the census in its current form operates like this... (Sorry. I hope somebody more helpful comes along if you are being serious)
Have you spoken at all with @breepm.bsky.social? Pretty sure she did a math-art mini unit a while back. Bree, sorry for volun-tolding you.
Various ways of regrouping.... (2*5)*(2*5)*(3*3) 10*10*9 100*9 or (2*2)*(5*5)*(3*3) 4*25*9 100*9 or (2*3*5)^2 (6*5)^2 30^2
that's exciting! i never taught it, but have seen many people have it added to their plate and after the initial overwhelmingness of it all, really embraced and loved the class....
As a parent, something thing that helps me feel semi-competent is remembering that I only need to be a step or 2 ahead Many of us are used to having a wealth of knowledge that comes with teaching something over & over.... this makes life easier, but isn't fully necessary in order to teach something
I feel like for most HS math teachers, that's the class. Every school has the "stats guru," when they move on somebody else is assigned to it and has to re-learn it all (and thus become the next "stats guru")
embrace the feeling and be honest with yourself and your students. "I don't know, let's try to figure it out" It's terrifying but also extremely enlightening to feel like our students again.
When i did my data science program we had to do an analysis of standardized test data... everybody in my class tied it into academic performance. I, the educator, brought in affluence, participation rate, political leanings... Bookended with these 2 slides...
The lack of respect and having to constantly prove myself to people who never actually stepped into my classroom was one of the reasons I ultimately decided to leave teaching (even with the support of "the data")
I just got a notice from my bank for a potential unauthorized charge on my credit card I appreciate that they're monitoring for such a thing. However, this particular charge is with a company where I've had an automatically reoccurring order for over a year...
I honestly wonder what they have as the correct answer to #2... and how they balance the actual answer with what is happening in their state.
I want to believe you, but can you please support your claim with quantifiable data? (sarcasm, if it wasn't obvious) Teaching methods, professional knowledge, content proficiency, grading practices, jeans... seems like every part of teacher professionalism is questioned these days
Changes by the hour. Another one- the "not"s were added shortly after he calmed down (a second time bc I pointed out it couldnt be me bc they didn't have a beard and have hair on top on their head)
Enjoy it. Soon enough you'll get notes like this (taken many years ago....but lives on my desk cause it makes me chuckle)
Life as the spouse of an educator The 10yo is on a new soccer team. My wife wanted to make a pocket cheatsheet to have at games: kid name, Jersey #, parent name.. This afternoon she says "I made the name card!" I, half-jokingly, ask "did you laminate it yet?" "No, I took the laminator to school"
Somehow it reminds me of this ridiculous video that my freshman were obsessed with years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7m...
The first election after moving to SF was when he was running for mayor. It was him (dem) vs a green party candidate. I voted for the other guy. Even back then he came across as this slick aspiring career politician.
One of my go to dad/teacher jokes was the first time I made a mistake in class (aka the first week) a student would correct me, "oh yeah, thanks. I'm not very good with numbers" S who knew me rolled their eyes S who didn't would have this look of horror "but... but... You're my math teacher"
Bookends Can't math before coffee. Can't math after two cocktails.
Left to right. 123 would work for 1/1 12/2 123/3
The problem that likely won me the thing is a fun one... Find the ten-digit number comprised of the digits 0-9, such that the first n digits form a number divisible by n
Couple of cupples
Nah, it was just kids not paying attention. They had split the teams into 2 buildings alphabetically. We had discussed if we were going by city name or school name. Half went to the wrong one. On the flip side, I won the individual competition. My biggest math geek achievement.
In HS I was at a math competition at washU. We had a team test, half the team went to the wrong building on the other side of campus. I, the athlete, had to sprint across campus and get the other kids back in 10mins. That was the day I decided I needed a bigger university.