What happens when a calculus teacher eats at #CaliforniaFishGrill?
Peak geek!
This wall art always makes me think of integrals. You see it, too, right?
And then: "Hmm, I wonder, what's the area of the fish?"
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Teaching my calculus and pre-cal students about the context of math, including the cultural context, is part of my job. Today, on Day 2 of the 5 days of #Diwali, I introduced the famous art of #rangoli, giving them a chance to choose a pattern to color. #MathEd #ITeachMath #MultiverseOfMathness
Hey HUNTR/X!
I'll do that 😊
Mr. Hung
#KPopDemonHunters #KPDH #KPop #AsianTeacherLife #MultiverseOfMathness
When you can't find posters of some of the mathematically powerful women you want to spotlight in class, you make 'em yourself.
Mary Golda Ross (Cherokee)
Shakuntala Devi
Dr. Erika Tatiana Camacho
Dr. Rana el Kaliouby
Dr. Angela Robinson
Amanda Nguyen
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A flag with my image (cosplaying as Doctor Strange) printed on it.
A gift from two of my students! I never imagined myself on a flag. Now I can "wave" without using my hands! 🚩 #ITeachMath #MultiverseOfMathness
#Thunderbolts* is quite good, the best MCU film in awhile. Fun action and humor with a deeper message that's super-relatable. Stay until the very end of the credits for a long extra scene. #MultiverseOfMathness
Traffic sign misspelled as "Trhu Traffic"
It's okay, dude. I'm pretty sure I make more mistakes in my job than you do in yours. (After all, math teachers make more obvious mistakes than any other kind of teacher.)
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Images from a preview for the upcoming movie Fantastic Four. There's a title image, featuring the "4" logo that appears on the heroic quartet's uniforms, along with the last names of the four members - Richards, Storm, Storm again, and Grimm. The other three images show actor Pedro Pascal as the head of the Fantastic 4 famiily, the aforementioned Reed Richards, doing complex mathematical computations on a chalkboard.
We all know what it's like to do mathy work under pressure. But imagine doing it with the pressure of saving the world!
The newest Fantastic Four trailers show actor Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, using his mathematical superpowers!
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Teaching at a Catholic school, I get to ask students questions like this, which I posed to AP Calculus BC students after our recent unit on infinite series. (The #GloryBe is part of the prayers of the rosary.) #ITeachMath #MathEd #MultiverseOfMathness
Her most powerful invention became known as spread spectrum, which evolved into some of the most widely used technologies in the world today. In fact, you're likely using it right now! Read on for more!
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Little did anyone know she was an amazing scientist and inventor - partly b/c she didn't talk about it publicly, but also b/c she ran into sexism that's strong today - the stereotype that a beautiful woman couldn't possibly also be brilliant intellectually. #MultiverseOfMathness #ITeachMad #MathEd
Black-and-white photo of famous actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, dressed in a costume from the film Ziegfeld Girl.
For #WomensHistoryMonth, I've also spotlighted at feministasiandad.com/2025/03/16/w... #HedyLamarr , one of the most famous actresses of the 1930s and '40s. A Jewish refugee, she starried in huge films and appeared on every fashion magazine. #MultiverseOfMathness #ITeachMath #MathEd
#FeministAsianDad post for #WomensHistoryMonth: feministasiandad.com/2025/03/16/w... #MathEd #ITeachMath #MultiverseOfMathness
Title of the page says "Beyond: Swifties" using friendship bracelets. Below that is the beginning of class notes on Taylor polynomials, a topic in calculus
"Beyond: Swifties" - My #APcalculusBC students are in their Taylor polynomials era
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Images of six impactful Black mathematicians for Black History Month
For #BlackHistoryMonth, I introduced my students to (clockwise from upper left) Benjamin Banneker, Euphemia Haynes, Ernest Wilkins, Katherine Johnson, Gladys West, and John Urschel, all of whom are truly inspiring! #ITeachMath #MathEd #ethnomathematics #MultiverseOfMathness
Laminated picture on my classroom door of me cosplaying as Dr. Strange. Title on picture says Multiverse of Mathness
Proud of myself for learning how to use the laminating machine without any help! Okay, YouTube helped a little.
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I'm asking students, "What is something unusual that you wish math could help you to do?" I show them this Kina Grannis MV, which uses 288,000 jellybeans and needed 2500 frames, each one taking 15-20 mins., over 2 years! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOu0... #MultiverseOfMathness #ITeachMath #MathEd
Thank you @todos-math.bsky.social podcast hosts @professorteds.bsky.social and Shari for the fun convo! www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tod... #ITeachMath #MathEd #MultiverseOfMathness
"And it is possible to have quantitative equality and qualitative inequality. The doctrine of 'separate but equal' can never be."
What might Dr. King have meant about equality not being something you can count?
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"If it had been possible to give Negro children the same number of schools proportionately and the same type of buildings as white children, the Negro children would have still confronted inequality ...
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One of the things he said to them:
"But even if it had been possible to provide the Negro with equal facilities in terms of external construction and quantitative distribution, we would have still confronted inequality.
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This Monday, we honor civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior (1.15.1929 - 4.4.1968).
In 1956, only two years after Brown v. Board of Education but before much of the nation began integrating schools, he addressed a group of educators.
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C.
Here's a question I'm currently asking my students in their math journals (an assignment where they enter brief responses to occasional questions I ask them about the intersection of math and the rest of life):
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Picture of me, pointing to 2025 on my classroom whiteboard
1.6.2025
6:47 A.M.
Perhaps I should have written "45 * 45." Good luck today, everyone, as you get back to it!
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A Photoshopped picture of me, dressed as Doctor Strange of the Marvel superhero movies, saying "In the grand calculus of the multiverse" - which is something Doctor Strange says in the films - "it's my job to teach not only math, but also its cultural and historical context. Math becomes more than just useful; it becomes personal and even powerful."
Mathematics, as my generation and previous generations learned it, was simply functional. Studying math was only about the numbers.
But I believe that if I'm going to serve my students best, I also need to introduce them to math's cultural and historical context. #MultiverseOfMathness #ITeachMath
New phone lockscreen. Winter holidays are a perfect time to waste a little. #MultiverseOfMathness #ITeachMath
Inspired by @themathguru.bsky.social and my #calculus students. And an inability to turn off the #MathEd part of my brain during the holidays. #ITeachMath #MultiverseOfMathness
Celebrating the genius of #SrinivasaRamanujan on the anniversary of his birth, which is #NationalMathematicsDay in India!
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Photoshopped picture of me impersonating Doctor Strange from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I'm re-enacting the scene in the movie Avengers: Endgame where he holds up one finger.
