SPRING IS HERE, DAMMIT. SHORT SLEEVES IN 5… 4… 3…

Deep breath. Just took the snow shovels in off the front porch. #montreal #hubris

for white supremacists the paradox they are *constantly* wrestling with is "if we're so superior why are we losing"

for male supremacists it's the same: "if men are so naturally superior where did all the patriarchy go"

one way out is this desperate reinscription of the natural

The book cover for Teaching Meaning: What Works When Telling Isn't Enough.

Release day! The ebook & hardback are live.

The first book for teachers based on *enactive* cognitive science, please consider leaving a review when you're done (it really helps).

(Paperback readers: Amazon is having a glitch, so it's slightly delayed.)

mybook.to/teachingmean...

Screenshot of an online opinion article by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "The Texas gerrymander freakout," with the subheadline, "What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy." The publication date is August 20, 2025.

​Screenshot of an online opinion article from The Washington Post by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss," with the subheadline, "The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

+1 ✨

I went to 30 hours of meetings on AI so you don’t have to. I went to 30 hours of meetings on AI so you don’t have to. Overview on Corporate/Education AI Innovation I started the last week as an AI pessimist and ended it in the back of a driverless car …

@mrtomrad.bsky.social quoting the one properly-reticent executive on an AI panel a year ago:

“We can only transfer a portion of reality into computational language.”

Pretty sure that take is still a good one.
mrtomrad.medium.com/i-went-to-30...

Yes, I’m settling in at my desk for a day of writing. But this is today’s coffee mug, a gift from that store.

It’s diner-perfect. 😌

Can you blame me for thinking about buying companion dishes?

Colorband Here at Fishs Eddy, we do dishes! For nearly 40 years, Fishs Eddy has been rooted in the sensibility of quality restaurant-ware, made to be used and enjoyed every day. Shop online at fishseddy.com or ...

omg. I just nostalgia'd so hard. 🥹 www.fishseddy.com/collections/...

Completely! There’s great CS edu research (k-8 and, separately, undergrad) that looks at these as different levels of abstraction. The ability to translate between levels is a key for programmers.

It echoes today’s math activities perfectly. ✨

Visual Patterns Explore these patterns with your students and watch their natural tendencies to see patterns morph into powerful algebraic thinking and reasoning. It’s an ideal routine to foster mathematical practice...

I've been thinking a lot in #CSed #csk8 lately about the interplay between plain-language & actual code.

The visualpatterns.org exercises are a *great* way to build the skills of Specifying in Plain Language and Implementing from Plain Language.

I think we should spent time here. <end>

That last round is a reciprocal two-step, something like: (1) "Explain in plain language what the 100th step in this pattern would look like." and then (2) "Here's my drawing from your description of the 100th step." ...
A lot like some Unplugged Computing activities I've seen. ... /

Visual Patterns Explore these patterns with your students and watch their natural tendencies to see patterns morph into powerful algebraic thinking and reasoning. It’s an ideal routine to foster mathematical practice...

.... So... real reflection... today's #MathRoutineCollab really got me thinking about complex patterns and *plain language*.

The routines from visualpatterns.org start with a round or two of drawing the "[n]th step in this pattern." And Fawn ended some with a round of plain language... /

And -- ahem, not to brag or anything, but -- in a call full of Pick Me Pick Me math teachers, @sneffleupagus.bsky.social raised up TWO of my questions. That's just how perceptive and Visual Patterny I am. 💅 ... /

Another #MathRoutineCollab today, and a chance to hang out online with ma' math buds! 🤓
Super thanks to @sneffleupagus.bsky.social and @fawnnguyen.substack.com. ❤️✨

... and @karencampe.bsky.social @saravanderwerf.bsky.social fun to see you too! ... /

☝️ currently watching: Inception (2010).
(And for once, I think Leo is the actor who got the detail right.)

Pet peeve: when actors in a movie pronounce a main character's name differently. Nothing breaks the illusion for me faster. 🙄

Hi hi! It's been a while.
I'm excited to share how I facilitate a 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 routine! Hope to learn from you also.

𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟵, 𝗮𝘁 𝟭:𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗣𝗦𝗧
Register for the Math Routine Collaborative at strongermath.com/mrc

@sneffleupagus.bsky.social @mfannie.bsky.social @ralphpantozzi.bsky.social

Reading now... [fyi: this tagged person isn't the author ☝️. different spelling.]

Update: Success.
A delicious little cross-breeze is indeed going.
Happy spring, Montreal. ☺️🏡🌷

Current status: seeing if we can get a cross-breeze going here.

Kudos to the CS senior (and TA) who amid all this still says: “I think the innate value of having staff members is that you can interact with students… Human interaction is the best way to intimately understand the course material.” 🫡

🤯 Yes. Yes, it is.
[retrieves paper]
And what IS it about NC State?! I keep discovering more good researchers there! ✨

Tranchemontagne! ... oooh, you'd have to 2-turn that. If you're flexible about FR... could work. 🤔

[brain break during thesis writing]
Let's play Math Education Scrabble.
I'm coming at you with KAZEMI and HINTZ.
Who ya got?
#iteachmath #nicheskeet

Next in Honest Names for LLMs:
“Dunning-Kruger-Driven Tech Debt Machine” 😱

Today’s the day! Just a few hours left to register and attend OAME2026 in-person. Visit mcis.oame.on.ca #letstalkmath

Oof. They went for it right in the first paragraph -- "authoritarianism" and "democratic backsliding." 💥

Crossed the "er... we're sephardic now, have some rice" threshold ourselves last night.