In High-Performing Math Classrooms, Words Matter Research shows math vocabulary is linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

When it comes to improving math outcomes, using precise math vocabulary in the classroom isn’t a silver bullet.

But a 2025 study shows using more specific math terms (like subtraction instead of takeaway) is linked to stronger academic achievement when paired with expert teaching practices.

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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

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I just volunteered my students to puzzle test for this. I loved thee big yellow game book he did. #MTBoS

Big picture, I feel that too often topics are taught in vacuums. There are very few truly "new" topics, everything is an extension/ twist of what has been done... and we rarely connect those dots. This leads to memorization vs understanding.

The area model is clutch and it’s sad that I wasn’t taught it as a kid. 😂

Agreed

My understanding is that the pictured ones are all official IM partners because they pay IM & any changes they make are "approved" by IM.

ADM is inspired by & based on IM, but doesn't pay nor get their changes approved by IM. Being built on the desmos platform also gives flexibility for digital.

#ITeachMath I see the #elemmathchat has moved here & seems to have regular chats now. Anyone/ #MTBOS know if #msmathchat or #hsmathchat exist?

What are all of the semi regular #mathchats on here? I miss my math community!

Two straight lines, one with two angles at a point, the other with three. Underneath are two empty bar models with 180° written in the top bar of each.

I used another #BlankIsBest slide this week to introduce angles on the straight line.

The bar model underneath each diagram really helped some of my Y7's make sense of the problems I made up.

#MathsToday

#ElemMathChat

Why We’re Hardwired for Storytelling Before there were cities, or alphabets, or religion—before we knew how to write, build, or govern—there was story. Told around…

A6: www.sciencenewstoday.org/why-were-har...

#ElemMathChat

Join us for #ElemMathChat on 3/26/26 at 8pm CST with Alison Mello (@alisonmellomath.bsky.social)!
We’ll explore how Math Workshop Plus can support student independence, sense-making, and joy in math. 🧠➕✨
Bring your ideas and questions! #ElemMathChat

Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.

What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.

When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.

Remember this.

Joanne on @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "he's like the neurodivergent person at the meeting, going 'I'm going to say the thing that everyone else is avoiding saying, because I don't know why they're avoiding saying it, because it's actually the point that they're talking round and round.'"

SO TRUE.

The guardrails in our Constitution exist for a reason.

Urge Congress to oppose any bill that adds funding for this unauthorized, illegal war at aclu.org/war-on-iran-

I'm wondering if there any videos of #ITeachMath teachers using @illustratemath.bsky.social curriculum with their students available anywhere. I constantly get asked for exemplar videos by teachers in the districts I support & I wish I had a resource to point them to.

#MTBOS #LearnWithIM

Just like with Brazil arresting their insurrectionists rather than re-electing them, other countries are holding their Epstein-tied politicians accountable far better than we do. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I keep seeing folks say they'll just accept a Teen Friendly account on Discord rather than scan or ID and I don't know if I wanna mass normalize leaving NSFW pals out in the cold yet again. Especially with all the censorship stuff goin on I think we gotta stand with the freaks now more than ever.

A few folks in my life with "chronic decision paralysis" are increasingly telling me "well, I asked Chat or Gemini and it said...."

Habibi, there is literally no faster way to get me to stop listening to you than uttering that sentence.

Resign, fired, or impeached.

Kristi Noem has got to go.

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated.

The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t...

(Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

I wish university presses would try to get some physics textbooks by women published

Too much push for memoir, not enough push for “write about the thing you do”

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

a facebook post from Ashon Crawley on February 13, 2021. It reads: i am sympathetic to folks that say *the* reason why the black panther party of self defense was a threat was because of the breakfast program. i am also sympathetic to the folks that say that is too reductive, that they were more than a breakfast progrum.* i think it’s in the middle: the BPP was a threat because they practiced care. and care showed up *as* a breakfast program, yes, but also as health clinics, as armed defense, as reading groups. care work as political organizing. care as the grounds for its emergence. care. one reason i’ve focused on care in my own work for years now is because black feminist thought informs my own, and black queer critique. and because care is often considered the antithesis of “serious things” and i’m just fundamentally against this. if care is soft or frilly or whatever, we need to have a preferential option for softness. care is something white supremacist capitalist patriarchy cannot give nor withhold, even when it tries to privatize care as an industry that is primarily about making money and exploiting workers. care is not private property, it only exists when it is shared. care is the antithesis and alternative to white supremacy, to riff on cedric robinson, because it must be. but it is so much more. it exceeds the logic of reactive response to practices of violence. it precedes the violence and political economy of extraction and exploitation. care, even if soft, ain’t easy. it takes courage. and conviction. and clarity. (i’m a former preacher, so the alliteration is a throwback lol.) you only have care when you share it. and sharing it is difficult precisely because the political economy of racial capitalism wants us to privatize and hoard what we consider it to be. care. let it flower and bloom. selah. 🌸💕

Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

EPA officially kills the endangerment finding ‘Don't worry about it,’ Trump says when asked about climate impacts on public health

President Donald J. Trump and Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA has finalized rescinding the endangerment finding. This is the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the US Clean Air Act. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop.

Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.

Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.

Tell the Senate: Not a penny more for ICE brutality | Indivisible

DHS funding runs out today. That means we have real leverage in this fight since a funding bill can’t pass without Democratic votes. Call your Members of Congress and demand they reject any bill that doesn’t stop ICE and CBP terror.

House: indivisible.org/actions/ice-...

Senate: 👇