So this is a twitter thread that I posted regarding the NBCT path. Seeing how twitter is on the way down the toilet, I’ll fix some of the typos and put it up here too. Link. So a week ago … Continue reading
Introduction A few months back there was a bit of a kerfuffle about how Twitter uses an algorithm to crop images. If you gave Twitter two faces in one image then it would use the algorithm to select a face … Continue reading
End of the year. Finally. Sixty plus school days out, from March 12th until June 12th. Who knows what the fall will bring? More of the same, full distance learning? Some days in school, some distance? Totally back in person? … Continue reading
This is a Day in the Life of post in the 6th week of our Corona Virus School break. I wrote a previous Day in the Life post six years ago and it can be found here. Here is the … Continue reading
Once again, here’s a lightly edited twitter thread about my experiences teaching in the COVID19 craziness. This is the fifth week that we’ve been away from students. This week I asked the students to attend a small group (<=5) 10 … Continue reading
Hello forgotten blog. I’ll go back to forgetting about you, but I wrote a lot of text into your flashier cousin, Twitter, and here it is copied, pasted, and lightly edited. I’ve been asking the students to fill out weekly … Continue reading
This is an update to my previous PAEMST post. In the middle of October I took a trip with my wife to DC and participated in the PAEMST (Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching) awards conference for … Continue reading
Previous entries: #1 Course Evaluations,ย #2 Whiteboards and Furniture, and #3 Teacher Technology Use. This one is short and sweet. And it totally depends on you. Share your nerdy math things with the students. Please. Students at any level should see … Continue reading
Ok, here we are after a full year between Classroom Top Four #2 and #3. Wow. Good news is that I have more refined opinions on this specific topic, partly because I changed schools and the friction of the change … Continue reading
This post is part of the Virtual Conference on Mathematical Flavors, and is part of a group thinking about different cultures within mathematics, and how those relate to teaching. Our group draws its initial inspiration from writing by mathematicians that … Continue reading