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phonner, 21 days ago to random

You might think that teachers who complain that their students can't do X might eventually realize that since it's their job to teach their students to do X they are actually complaining about themselves. But you would be wrong.

clive, 23 days ago to random

“I had a guy come in with his family ... and he did 16 rounds of shrimp scampi. He was there for over two hours on a busy Friday night. They had one of my biggest tables. I just had to watch this man eat plates upon plates of the scampi, which isn’t even served over pasta. It’s shrimp in a garlic-wine butter.

"It was so gross.”

Red Lobster employees tell grim tales of the chain benighted "endless shrimp" deal: https://slate.com/life/2024/05/red-lobster-restaurant-closing-bankrupt-endless-shrimp.html

phonner, 1 month ago to random

I was recently subject to local TV news for the first time in a while. Still the same. Pretty much every story is BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID! with some occasional human interest thrown in to break up the monotony.

phonner, 1 month ago to math

Inspired by my brilliant student (https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@phonner/112419322877058443) I've been playing around with (e)-like sums. Here's a fascinating one!

[ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} {\frac{n^4}{n!}}=15e ]
This is strange enough to provoke wonder, but simple enough to serve as an entry-point to an interesting generalization.

#Math #Calculus

phonner, 1 month ago to random

There are very few circumstances under which I would choose to eat a raisin.

phonner, 1 month ago to math

Brian Conrad, the Stanford mathematician who has written extensively about the problems with the proposed California Mathematics Framework (CMF), is now the subject of a formal complaint filed with Stanford University by the President of the central section of the California Math Council accusing him of "reckless disregard for academic integrity".

https://sites.google.com/view/publiccommentsonthecmf/#h.u9k2csw8r9s4

#Math #MathEd

phonner, 1 month ago to random

Logged into Twitter to look around, as I occasionally do. I was met with:

• Humblebrag moralizing from people who don't understand the morals they are bragging about possessing
• Several posts intentionally designed to elicit a negative reaction from me
• A few thoughtful posts with no engagement whatsoever
• Four people complaining about Twitter and/or social media
• Two people I miss hearing from

phonner, 1 month ago to math

Something I keep coming back to as a teacher and learner is Papert's concept of "Objects to Think With". In some ways, math for me is simply a collection of objects to think with. The guitar, too. Card games. The Rubik's cube. A basketball. And a simple way to be a lifelong learner is to continually seek out new objects to think with.

#Math #Teaching #MathEd

phonner, 1 month ago to math

Wrapped up our unit on infinite series by constructing some fractions with interesting decimal representations!

[ \frac{100}{9899} = 0.01010203050813213455... ]
#math #calculus

phonner, 2 months ago to random

Today I learned a sugar plum is just a ball of sugar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_plum

phonner, 2 months ago to ukteachers

Texas will use AI to grade free response questions on standardized exams for reading, writing, science, and social studies this year.

"For $50, students and their parents can request a rescore if they think the computer .. got it wrong."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/staar-artificial-intelligence-computer-grading-texas/

#Education #Teaching

gregeganSF, 2 months ago to random

My new novel MORPHOTROPHIC will be published on 9 April.

Amazon is now accepting preorders for the ebook; other venues will follow soon.

There will also be print-on-demand editions from Amazon available on 9 April, but they can't be pre-ordered.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ46L396

phonner, 2 months ago to random

I righted a lifetime wrong this weekend by finally learning to whistle with my fingers.

phonner, 2 months ago to math

My latest column for @QuantaMagazine is about the many ways recursion can be used across math classes, and starts with one of my all time favorite math problems!

https://www.quantamagazine.org/math-that-connects-where-were-going-to-where-weve-been-20240322/

#Math #MathEd

fractalkitty, 3 months ago to random

Hi all! The 225th Carnival of Mathematics is posted!

https://fractalkitty.com/2024/03/02/carnival-of-mathematics-225/

Thanks everyone for the submissions, blogging, musings, and art.

If you feel like I have missed something or forgot to submit, please let me know.

@KarenCampe @jcponcemath @stecks @drj @shiffman @diffgeom

#carnivalOfMaths #blogCarnival #mtbos #mathArt #connections225

phonner, 3 months ago to math

Student 1: That's the craziest shape I've ever seen!
Student 2: That's a hyperbola.
Student 1: And that was hyperbole.

#Math #MathEd #Teaching #Calculus

Believe it or not, a true story!

jeffmoore, 3 months ago to math

Stop it with the medieval #math requirements, already! #education #school #student #teacher @edutooter @edutooter https://justequations.org/blog/the-latest-in-the-inexplicable-war-on-high-school-data-science-courses

juergen_hubert, 3 months ago to blogging

I'm curious - what are people using for self-hosted #blogging on the #Fediverse ?

#Friendica , or just #Wordpress with the #ActivityPub plugin? Or are there any other alternatives I haven't considered?

#FediHelp

phonner, 3 months ago to math

I was excited to present a new workshop for teachers tonight titled "The Geometry of Statistics"! I love that I am continually learning as a teacher, and I'm fortunate to have opportunities to share what I learn with other teachers.

https://mrhonner.com/archives/21683

#Math #MathEd #Statistics #LinearAlgebra #Geometry

phonner, 4 months ago to math

I once sat in a department meeting where a teacher loudly and seriously asserted that students learn better when chalk is used, and others nodded along in agreement.

#Math #MathEd

phonner, 4 months ago to random

You know who is a super cool and nice person in real life? @AlSweigart! And I totally forgot to ask him about his hobby of picking up litter.

phonner, 4 months ago to random

I really don't understand why people who left Twitter angry and disillusioned would use Bluesky. It's vulnerable to the same problems. It was started by the exact same person!