Contrary to the idea that science is a set of static facts in a textbook created by dispassionate experts, it’s a human process. …Disagreements are common, knowledge is refined over time, and sometimes the protagonists become intemperate, annoyed, even jealous. wapo.st/4sghmKo

Seize the day academics! Now’s the time to show you care about the system you sit on top of—take a move out of the right wing playbook and make alliances with parents, teachers, family orgs, etc etc.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

One of the things that happened is that reformers + their allies shifted "HQIM" to include only materials produced by a corporate vendor. They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.

but it’s good when teachers eke out intellectual lives, should be a regular part of the job

Wilson 3.0

“Multiple Republican officials suggested without evidence” and then fill in the blank wapo.st/4s7ZMbs

Okay last point I'll make -- re: the intro excerpt, there *is* something true about how the right is so irony-poisoned that the cardinal rules of anti-bigotry are now cringe. I've written about how Trump's comic sensibilities are central to understanding his politics: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

Some many years ago in #iTeachMath: "The challenge facing American education has never been greater. Today's technological society requires that schools help children prepare for a life of continuous learning.

"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

“When do our students really understand the algorithms we teach? When they can use them effectively, or when they understand how they work, and can reconstruct them if they forget crucial steps” dylanwiliam137385.substack.com/p/onions #iTeachMath

#iTeachMath like every day

Filing under misleading graphs #iTeachMath

Oh no! #iTeachMath

Another way to interpret this: The Washington Post endorses re-segregation of American society.

"The current study contributes to extant literature by examining the efficacy of inquiry-based instruction separated by inquiry types, rather than grouping all forms of inquiry-based interventions together... for students with disabilities

The American Way

I maintain that a major difference between the humanities and math/sciences is we treat the latter as an innate skillset and we treat the humanities as learnable. Also the people IME have the most contempt for the humanities are the ones who struggle to write a simple paragraph.

I need to get to work on my book about the history of teaching calculations. Not that this would prevent such theories, however. #iTeachMath

…algorithms can lead to higher costs for consumers because if companies know that their competitors will almost instantaneously match their prices, they have less incentive to try to attract customers by offering a better deal — a pattern the authors call “algorithmic coercion.”

The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product. #iTeachMath www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

Every time I try to type “sunset” I keep tying “subset”. #iTeachMath #MathProblems

I love all of the content areas & never wanted to give up any of them. Last year, using a mostly-scripted curriculum for language arts was one of the most frustrating & demoralizing professional experiences of my career. I worked hard to make that curriculum interesting & relevant to my students. 2/

Welcome back to 1906

📽️ WATCH: Photographer @annie-flanagan.bsky.social went to Clairton, PA, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel. This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton. Link to our story below ⤵️

again, it is just arrogance. “there is one true meaning of the constitution and it can only be derived by a special caste of lawyers with a special interpretative lens and once discovered it is binding.”

if didn’t say it last year at my first @socialstudies.org conference, making sure I say it here after my second: social studies teachers are heroes. Plus so much collaboration with #iTeachMath is possible.

Maps! More #iTeachMath

I decided to convert dollars to centimeters. That allows us to visualize, for example, the distance between having no money and being at poverty level — about four city blocks. 2/8

Ah, 1984 and every year: "If we are to break the cycle of failure that afflicts many minority children, we must tell students the truth about their basic skills mastery - and the earlier, the better." How has that worked out?

ah, 1984. "When I address business groups, I hear a consistent protest: Our graduates lack the skills needed to hold even entry-level jobs. The private sector has had to conduct its own employee training programs in order to fill the gap."

I recently made a digital teacher resource about CODAP for a class assignment. Maybe you can use it! Download the PDF version with links here: bit.ly/CODAPHandout

Humans are bad at big numbers. Which makes it easier for billionaires (and trillionaires) to get away with hoarding wealth. Because most people just can't comprehend how much money that is. So, I appreciate this WaPo effort to help people visualize what ridiculous amounts of wealth really mean.

Mathematicians, math enthusiasts, and math teachers everywhere should want a piece of this: #iTeachMath

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

My fourth graders have learned several of the games from @gfletchy.bsky.social and @tracyzager.bsky.social's Fact Fluency kit for multiplication and division and I love listening in as they play. They love the games and they're skills are growing. The talk as they play is a bonus!

One has to question what kinds if “smarts” they are using here #education

Adding insult to injury

Motorists are hostile to measures that slow traffic and favor pedestrians. Local leaders give token or tepid support. Spending on pedestrian-friendly improvements is not prioritized. In other countries that have curbed pedestrian deaths, governments made it a national priority. wapo.st/49WM4BI

I'm generally not big on telling authors, "Don't write about this, write about this other thing that worries me more." But in the authoritarian moment, I think it's fair to ask that they not write pieces that echo or assist the authoritarians.

Some many years ago in #iTeachMath: "The challenge facing American education has never been greater. Today's technological society requires that schools help children prepare for a life of continuous learning.

1993: What should I look for in a math classroom? Using textbooks as only one of many resources. Students interacting with each other, as well as working independently. #iTeachMath

Today, we hear echos of the past: "parent... troubled because her second grader spent months counting with coins and solving equations using ''friendly numbers,'' for instance, converting 71 + 19 into the easier 70 + 20." 😧 #iTeachMath

#Math #Education a little ancient history: 1992 After years of grim news about the performance of American pupils, a new preliminary report indicates that the nation's students made significant gains in mathematics achievement between 1990 and 1992. www.nytimes.com/1993...#Math#Education

That just seems really unlikely. Like when a journalist butchers facts about your field of study, and you sit back and realize that this must go on all the time with ALL fields of study...you just happen to know enough to find *these particular* butchered facts.

If this is your kind of art, be sure to enter the Desmos Art Contest by January 15th. Get all the details at desmos.com/art #mathsky #iteachmath #mathart

For our part, we’re tired of seeing teachers cast as scapegoats, of all the carping over unions and tenure. It is time teachers are as revered in society as doctors or scientists, and allowed to work professionally without being bound by reams of rules. www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/o...

Examining the Association Between Explicit Mathematics Instruction and Student Mathematics Achievement #iTeachMath

These 400-year-old tables show real human nerves and veins. Now, they live on in @realgdt.bsky.social's "Frankenstein": buff.ly/bMx7jnF