The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

Media using junk data analysis makes for shitty decision-making in policy and governing matters.

Real statistical understanding matters. #Statistics #Data #MathThatMatters #PoliticalScience #iTeachMath

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

🤔 Food for Thought: If Lyapunov cracked stability in 1892, what could today’s theorists unlock for 2123?

#ChaosTheory #AI #SpaceTech #MathThatMatters #InnovationLegacy #LyapunovSecretWeapon #SystemsThinking #EngineeringWizardry

The Emissions Equation LAUNCH

Following up on yesterday's #MathsToday post, here is the next lesson. This time, we are building percent change functions to model CO2 emissions, sinks, and net. Hope you can use it! #iteachmath #mtbos #MaththatMatters

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

Task: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hang Time LAUNCH

I spent way too long making this lesson on climate change and exponential decay. So, hopefully someone out there can use it. #MaththatMatters #iteachmath #mathstoday #mtbos

Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

Task:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

2 - Journey of a Lifetime JOURNEY of a LIFETIME How long would it take to walk around the world? Essential Concepts 4 Rate of Change Can I explain what ‘rate of change’ means? (+) Can I explain what ‘average rate of chan...

You can see a sample in Section 1 of the 'Journey of a Lifetime' unit that I built under #MaththatMatters.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In the upcoming unit I'm working on for #MathThatMatters (math-that-matters.com), students will learn transformational, coordinate geometry in order to build their own 'joyful gif.' I'm excited to see what they create. Here is mine... #mtbos #iteachmath #mathstoday

POW: Timmy the Turtle PUZZLE OF THE WEEK Timmy the Turtle Meet Timmy. Timmy is a friendly little turtle who is very good at following directions! If you give Timmy the directions below, he will make a square! Use the ...

Teaching about angle or properties of shapes? Meet Timmy the Turtle! He's here to help. ;) docs.google.com/document/d/1... cc: @joeykelly.bsky.social @playwyourmath.bsky.social @danshuster.bsky.social #mtbos #iteachmath #maththatmatters