I've always enjoyed these stream-of-consciousness solutions you write up. How do we get students to provide the same thinking? I would love to see how students think through a problem, and better, how other students would react and interact with it.
Quanta is ready to update E.T. Bell's classic to "Men and LLMs of Mathematics". 🙄 www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revol...
“Today, fueled by evidence of declining student performance and growing remediation efforts at all levels, the wheels of reform are turning again.
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GLASS CEILING SHATTERED 👏
Marie-Louise Eta becomes the first woman appointed to take charge of a men's first team in Europe's top 5 leagues. She will coach Union Berlin for the rest of the Bundesliga campaign 🇩🇪
Look at the women at NASA.
They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.
And they are doing it all with joy.👇
Title image of the comic "The music of the Spheres" by Dr. Terence Tao and Zach Weinersmith.
First 2 panels of the comic "The music of the Spheres." A man is narrating the comic, he is the comic representation of the quoted author, Dr. Terence Tao. He says "When I tell people at parties that I'm a mathematician, there's often an awkward pause in the conversation, or the obligatory..." A tall character next to him chimes in "Oh, I was sooooo bad at Math in school!" In the second panel, the narrator continues "though occasionally, you run into a math and science enthusiast who wants to discuss a recent development they heard in the news..." The narrator looks deeply touched, as a young woman is talking to him, she is saying : "oh my gosh, my friends and I cannot stop talking about reconstructing cryptographic protocols from quantum principles and... Do you want to move this conversation to a whiteboard?"
Panels 3 to 6 of the comic "The music of the Spheres." The narrator is putting a reassuring hand on a sad man's shoulder. The narration reads "...or someone who actually had a good experience in their math classes and was somewhat wistful about not pursuing it." The saddened man says "I'll always think of Hadwiger's graph theory conjecture as... the one who got away." In the next panels, the narrator states "those are good moments. But, in general, the public have very little idea what mathematics is, and what mathematicians actually do. Popular culture gives us some caricature portrayals of mathematicians"
Panels 7 and 8 of the comic "The music of the Spheres." Both panels show a caricature of a mathematicians from pop culture. The first is a tortured genius, represented by a woman holding a piece of chalk saying "I cannot know love, but by god I *will* know if every polyomino with an area divisible by six can tile and hexagon!" The narration specifies that "torturedness rates among mathematicians are, in fact, average." The second example is the savant with strange mental powers, represented by a man surrounded by equations that obscure his vision. The narration specifies that "if you see equations floating before your eyes, please consult an ophthalmologist."
Does this change my imaginary Erdos number to a complex number?
Click the link to read the full comic on the site!
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sphere...
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STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
Check out this LIVE debate from the WVCTM Conference:
Is it better to pause grade-level instruction to rebuild prior skills than to push forward and address gaps as they appear?
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Or check us out wherever you listen to podcasts!
#DebateMath
... we found the proponents of "the Science of Math" promised a focus on using empirically-proven evidence to determine evidence-based teaching practices in the literature, but failed to deliver on this promise.
sites.exeter.ac.uk/p...
This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥
A screenshot of the part of the accessibility settings with the option of “Require alt text before posting” selected
Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!
LAUNCH! ARTEMIS II LAUNCHES WITH A CREW OF 4 TOWARDS THE MOON
thought experiment:
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since sports are a closed system with predictable rules and keep detailed statistics on players, maybe we can replace college coaches with AI. coaches make a lot of money, so this could be a great cost saving measure for universities.
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Mathematics lives inside our biggest social questions. Data, percentages, and models can inform—or divide—depending on how we see them. What might it mean to develop a shared mathematical lens that helps us reason, question, and find common ground?
#MathEquity #iTeachMath #EduSky #Blusky
“Boredom is the portal to creativity.”This idea from @drnickinewton has me thinking that we might just be over-engineering learning in math class.
#MathChat #Education #EdChat #GrowthMindset #MathTeacher
More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.
Like the conservationist John Muir, the sense you get talking to @garystager.bsky.social about education is that when you try to pick out anything by itself, you find it hitched to everything else in the universe:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rea... #K12 #edchat
Games Done Quick's long, difficult journey to a better gaming future
aftermath.site/games-done-qui...
#Ukraine: Repeated attacks on energy infrastructure have left many without heat or electricity in winter.
Our teams are visiting at-risk residents, including older people, and distributing essential “warmth kits.”
More on our response: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/ukraine-help...
A green flyer for a TODOS Mathematics for ALL virtual book study. The TODOS logo appears in the upper left. Large text reads “Antiracist Mathematics Education: Stories of Acknowledgment, Action, and Accountability.” The design features diagonal sections with colorful, childlike artwork, including abstract faces, trees, buildings, and children playing. In the bottom right, bright yellow text reads “Virtual Book Study.” Below it, smaller text states “Mar 25 | 4:30 PM PT” and “Section 3: Teachers
What does it look like to take action in math classrooms?
Join us as we unpack Antiracist Mathematics Education and center teacher moves that matter.
Book study Mar 25 | 4:30 PM PT — Section 3.
#TODOSmath #MathEquity #iTeachMath #EduSky
On July 1, 2026, after decades of productive partnership with Cornell University, arXiv will establish itself as an independent nonprofit organization, marking the next stage in its 35-year history as a pioneer of open-access science. This transition allows for faster technological development, greater organizational flexibility, expanded partnerships, and long-term financial sustainability. A platform built by scientists for scientists, the new arXiv will continue to serve researchers worldwide with the same dedication to free and open scientific discovery.
Some very welcome updates from arXiv regarding their transition to an independent nonprofit: tech.cornell.edu/arxiv/
This is exactly what our research shows: when it becomes harder to tell apart expert-looking content from the real thing, the value of expertise goes up. And so does demand for it…
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses
What if storytelling could transform how students experience mathematics?
In this Front & Center article, authors explore how digital #mathematics stories help students see themselves as #mathematicians and feel a true sense of belonging.
Read here: nctm.link/n024p
The Home of Hands-on Mathematics – opening in London in November 2025! Learn more at mathsworld.com
Technically, we did score the first one...
Math Routine Collaborative March 15, 2026 | 4:00 ET Same and Different with Karen Campe Hosted by Annie Fetter, Shelby Strong, and Ralph Pantozzi www.strongermath.com/mrc
It's that time again! The Math Routine Collaborative is meeting this Sunday, 3/15/2026 with @karencampe.bsky.social
Come participate in the Same and Different routine, and unpack how to facilitate it in your own spaces. There are worse ways to spend a Sunday!
www.strongermath.com/mrc
Back to the Future? Traditional division, 1955 #iTeachMath
Pi day #PiDay is a great day for #ProblemSolving !!
Check out the March Calendar of problems and share your working out thoughts here or on the post.
#iTeachMath #MTBoS #T3Learns
#RecreationalMath #MathSky
karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/m...
#iteachmath Listening to Ts on socials talk about their leaders so I wanted to write this to hopefully inspire a few.
Title slide: From Intersecting Curves to Celestial Arcs: The Contributions of Islam to Mathematics. By Sara Rezvi, Ph. D. Dominican University Assistant Professor, School of Education, Chicago, IL
Tonight I heard the amazing Dr. Sara Rezvi speak at Math for America. Loved hearing her talk about the contributions of Islamic mathematicians, with examples from al-Khwarizmi to Miryim Mirzhakani. We used Desmos to look at Omar Khayyam’s solutions to cubic equations. 😃 #MTBoS #IteachMath #MfAProud
