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I’m going to start “vibe-_____ing” everything.

It’s March winter here, so we need all the vibes we can get!

“vibe-coded” is an S-tier term.

Looks like 3 outlets?

One each for:

5-4
5-3
4-3

PP. that just good coaching.

Ahhhh love this!!!

A clothesline strung across a classroom with fraction cards and pictures sitting upon it.

Thanks to @jennalaib.bsky.social , @natbanting.bsky.social and others for the inspiration to do a fractions clothesline. My student were very engaged! #ITeachMath

@natbanting.bsky.social looking forward to your keynote at my school tomorrow!

I don’t need a home stream. 😂

I get the game (and @desmos.com has to go get that bread), but it’s not as friendly for teachers who want to supplement their class with the activities.

“Progress” get a big “womp womp” from me.

The multiple landing pages are a wild choice, but managed to find it.

Students still being orphaned all over various landing pages.

Whatever this current interface is was not designed for teachers to supplement their student experience.

It wants all Amplify or nothing.

I miss the professionalism that Desmos enabled as a stand alone platform.

Also, kids just get lost in some Amplify dashboard with no option to enter code for activity.

There’s probably a simple fix here…

So how do I find my dashboard of recent @desmos activities?

Students seem to be sent every which way now that Amplify has added a layer of administration.

My fav part here is “emphasis” on theory.

The “testable” crew also operate on theoretical assumptions of how teaching and learning exist—they just leave them buried.

Emphasizing the conditions of an experiment (and conclusion) feels important, no?

Has anyone built a math practice app where every answer is 6, 7, or 67 yet?

Visual Patterns 🤝 Pattern Blocks
I am currently OBSESSED, in a (mostly) healthy way, with @fawnnguyen.substack.com visual patterns and @mathforlove.bsky.social pattern blocks for kids to learn and create patterns. Ah-may-zing. Also, I am in LOVE with Mary Vail's Thinking Desks, they are phenomenal!

[New Post] Ontario Math Links - My favourite #math related links from this week:

ontariomath.blogspot.com/2025/09/math...

links & help from @mrcorleymath.bsky.social @mathsweek.scot @darrenmacey.bsky.social @natbanting.bsky.social @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social &more #MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath

I think this is all sorted now!

(That’s 5 hours of my Saturday I won’t get back 😂)

Yeah…

Something about hosting is screwy right now.

Sorry about that; trying to contact tech support is… tedius. 🙄

Play with your Problems I am a compulsive problem poser. When presented with a mathematical context, I have an incredible amount of difficulty leaving it alone. My teacher instinct is to push, prod, tinker, and/or alter i…

I wrote a new post yesterday:

natbanting.com/play-with-yo...

It’s about the benefits of teachers tinkering with the problems/prompts we offer students.

(And, tangentially, about the benefits of conference spaces where we are given license to do so)

#iteachmath

Play with your Problems I am a compulsive problem poser. When presented with a mathematical context, I have an incredible amount of difficulty leaving it alone. My teacher instinct is to push, prod, tinker, and/or alter i…

I wrote a new post yesterday:

natbanting.com/play-with-yo...

It’s about the benefits of teachers tinkering with the problems/prompts we offer students.

(And, tangentially, about the benefits of conference spaces where we are given license to do so)

#iteachmath

Ornje

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Ornje

Also accepted: Ornch

“Orange” is a 1-syllable word

(Massive family argument occurring)

Any old #bcedchat folks have a lead on a veteran math history teacher??

BC has a grade 11 math history course!!

Have any BC math educators on here taught this course? If so, what was your experience?

Yup

Every influence is a sort of gambit.

And kids understand the structure of lessons and units. So eventually they will “self-spoil”

For this reason, I believe that the most authentic thinking occurs at the onset of a unit of study.

In general, we are worried that what students do *fits* the current unit of study so we spend time “listening for” specific acts that fit instead of “listening with” student thinking in more open spaces.

I get it. I do it. School math is packed and we need to get kids specific places.

Math class: “Here’s a task about a hallway of lockers that involves perfect squares”

English class: “Here’s a book and, at the end, the hero dies”

These are identical experiences imho

I think math teachers feel an increased need to include more “spoilers” to justify openness in their classroom.

It’s true what they say. This is excellent.

And I’m going to quote the end to give you a taste:

“But personalized learning is the wrong ideal. … We shouldn’t be going all-in on kids learning on their own. We should be trying to figure out how to make whole-group learning even better.”

#artmath