Red state book bans and mandates rightly attract a lot of attention. Meanwhile, there’s been and continues to be a quieter shift in blue states away from meaningful kinds of reading and writing.

Historical #iTeachMath advice for K-6 ◆ ask pupils to present and explain their work, or mark a written exercise done so that you can question pupils about it, assess it informally and rectify any misconceptions or errors;

“His number sense was kind of, he didn't go, oh, hang on a minute, that doesn't seem right... He just did it procedurally, made a mistake, and then he couldn't tell. “I would say, okay, let's just think about that for a second. Like, does that make sense? #iTeachMath

"I think the days of graphing calculators as we have known them are now numbered." #iTeachMath maa.org/math-values/...

'EdSecretary Linda McMahon has been blocked from entering schools in her home state of CT. Her “History Rocks!” tour bills itself as a nonpartisan civics celebration. But it’s bankrolled by Turning Point USA, Moms for Liberty& other right-wing organizations.' www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-resist...

Congratulations to our newly elected Board members! The newly elected Board members will begin their terms at the conclusion of the NCTM 2026 Annual Meeting & Exposition in October: nctm.link/elections

I’m watching ai use absolutely destroy a middle school friend circle.

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

New episode -- a conversation about Susan Empson's career studying children's thinking, fraction story problems, and teacher noticing. #MathEd www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mat...

Law enforcement and corrections agencies have observed false-positive percentages of 15, 38 and even 91. #iTeachMath wapo.st/4sJIoK4

"Podcast" comes from the Latin "paudus" (meaning "to half-listen to") and "casteratum" (meaning "while preparing food"). Mine is called "KOHN'S ZONE: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Education & Kids." New episodes posted on the 1st & 15th of each month: https://www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/

This is me my the way if that wasn’t obvious

President Trump has sworn to root out corruption within the government, yet one of his first acts as president was to fire over a dozen independent watchdogs who did exactly that www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Going to try to discover some log rules in Alg II Honors today #iTeachMath

What’s your early origin story for #iTeachMath?

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Plato had just downloaded another update and was refusing to teach us #math until we upgraded to a Be Best Platinum subscription, so we were left to our own devices.

Check out these tires! If they're bigger than an SUV or a semi trick, then how big is the vehicle that uses it?!?! This lesson is great for seventh graders studying proportions. robertkaplinsky.com/work/ti...

Headline 1926: motion pictures a danger to youth! Where are the parents?! Upshaw denounced the parents who listen indulgently when their children cry, "Let me go to the movies, mother," and who almost always give their consent. 1/8

“EDUCATORS whose careers were ended a quarter of a century or more ago and whose names are found now only in musty reports and graven on tombs may be looking down with amazement from that heaven to which good teachers go upon the modern school of the America of 1926. 1/6

Entire Spring Break Spent In Airport Security Line

A Penguin Books vending machine, with a selection of books I wouldn’t have expected to see at a train station

Meanwhile, certain commentators continue to repeat “But when schools drift toward a therapeutic orientation, it becomes harder to draw and enforce clear lines of what is accepted and what is not.” 🤦‍♂️

(And it's not just researchers. There are plenty of schoolman authored progressive-minded [i.e. Will Richardson] pieces that are nearly indistinguishable from conservative [i.e. Rick Hess] ones.)

“Many Americans have grown cynical of government, and they are right to be disappointed about its frequent failure to deliver results… But the answer cannot be allowing the private market and pursuit of profits to dominate American life.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

As for public #education, the first push is “the schools aren’t working the way they used to in the good old days”

American students know little. Who to blame!? 🤔… 1. The economy and the workplace are changing rapidly, and the pace of change is accelerating. 2. The jobs themselves are changing in content and skill requirements, regardless of type or size of business. 1/8

Crisis fatigue #iTeachMath “If you know a young person who has recently finished high school, chances are he or she is scientifically and technologically illiterate. 1/6

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

interstellar cinderella is arguably more sexist than the original fairy tale because in it the prince goes house to house with a broken ship and asks every girl in the galaxy to try fixing it and none can except this one girl, implying she’s the first girl to know about engines. in this essay i will

Space is the final frontier #iTeachMath youtu.be/e_oWmY_mkCA?... via @YouTube

“Letting our kids be kids also means getting back to the basics” 🤪

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

World’s biggest basket #iTeachMath

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

I declare public sphere efforts to work together and develop solutions that benefit communities to be a flop. Embrace the inevitable technological solution that will benefit large corporations! 🙄

My 2nd grade teacher taught me to look into a light in order to help me sneeze, and it’s worked ever since

#mathart suggestions from @denisegaskins.com denisegaskins.com/2026/03/18/d...

Just in case you need some good news today: researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (primary ingredient in vinegar) using the sun. This has the potential to really help us reduce plastic waste. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/w...

Over on that other app, people being snarky about these images. Thoughts?

It’s always important to show your work - just like it’s important to have values #iTeachMath

I was worried about flying today but 20 minutes through TSA at Hartsfield. Thank you TSA agents. Sorry our president is a piece of shit as well as our congress.

Oil executives, he said, would choose $80 oil “all day, every day” over the short-lived windfall that comes from a huge spike in prices followed by a slump. #iTeachMath wapo.st/4biFiX7

A 6th grade team we're working with is planning an upcoming unit around Tasty: A History of Yummy Experiments, and it goes surprisingly hard. A very cool and insightful blend of science and the humanities that has kids reflecting on food cultures while participating in food labs!

The unexpected mathematical connections! “A few years ago after heavy flooding, New Orleans found more than 46 tons of Mardi Gras beads clogging its storm drains.” @comapmath.bsky.social #iTeachMath

Perfect

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. #iTeachMath www.nytimes.com/2025...

Hint: it’s not

Has anyone written a book that details the history of “disrupting #education” as a “good thing”?