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Including hands-on tools in your lessons should help strengthen students’ understanding of abstract concepts -

Difficulties with advanced topics in math often stem from earlier gaps in understanding -

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Universities a ‘threat to misinformation’ in post-truth era Authors of new book Knowledge Under Siege argue academics are uniquely capable of being a ‘thorn in the side’ of authoritarian regimes www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

Watch Mark Carney's full speech from today. Canadians, at this time in history, we are fortunate to have the Prime Minister we have. 🇨🇦 youtube.com/watch?v=MoDQ...

This reminds of me of the time that my aunt’s friends got a magnetic catflap - which could only be opened by the magnet on their cat’s collar - and kept finding their cat stuck to the fridge.

A Multisensory Approach to Teaching Slope With Sound -

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

#math #maths #mathed #iteachmath

The mathematician David Bessis believes that mathematical skill is not innate, but learned. “Genius is not an essence. It’s a state. It’s a state that you build by doing a certain job.”

Yes kids, there used to be giant teaching slide rules in classrooms, mounted above the chalkboard or on walls. They hung on for awhile as relicts, like pull-down wall maps, then overhead projectors, and eventually the chalkboards themselves. Midcentury megafauna.

STEM math night -

When applied math helps elephants -

Take care of your voice. theconversation.com/how-voice-tr...

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and so in the blog I join forces with my colleague Mark Solomon to talk about how universities and colleges are doing with respect to TRC. It's a mixed picture.

A TRC Day listicle for CBC. Enough books here to keep you going through the winter. "These books helped me understand the willfulness of that not knowing and peoples' willingness to believe other stories about those schools." www.cbc.ca/books/patty-...

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Grounding Math Lessons in Picture Books

Busy beaver numbers -

Aha moments for mathematicians -

The poetry of ancient math - www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

How should we teach math?

Apparently Venus Fly Traps can count -

The mathematics of “are we there yet?”

A 3-dimensional doodle with lego -

The Racial Justice in Early Math project [Image of child's arm and some red and white counters on a desktop]

Even ancient Babylonians had math homework - [Image - a woman, a cat and a really really old clay tablet]

Math Fellowship Rooted in Racial Justice Supports Early Educators [Image of child and teacher using Rekenrek manipulative]

Look! It's a bird! At a stop light [seriously, that's what the image is] [courtesy of Clive Thompson's Linkfest - and I'll post that link in a comment below]

Children build math skills on a “cognitive bridge” between space & number. But where does it come from? Our new study finds monkeys transfer learning and abstractions across geometry & numerosity, revealing the evolutionary roots of basic math development. 🧪🧠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The importance of mingling math and play - [Image - two young children sitting on the floor playing with block-like toys]

Why can't time flow in reverse -

Math for pedestrians - [Image - view of pedestrian crosswalk from above]

Recovering when a lesson falls flat -

Forgotten studies from the early 20th century are helping scientists probe how and whether individual cells can learn and remember.

Art exhibit at #MAAthFest. Wonderful dodo-cahedron by Andrea Hawksley. Read about poly-fill-hedra at: archive.bridgesmathart.org/2022/bridges...

SPAtial Cognition to Enhance mathematical learning -[Image - young child playing with Lego blocks]

Vocabulary and reading a part of learning math too - fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

Took a rectangle for a spin (4 times). Neon curves collided, corners aligned — and out of the chaos, a square stitched itself into the void. Math weaving its own frame. #MathArt #ITeachMath

Dinosaur No Four in a Row Puzzles mathequalslove.net/dinosaur-no-... #mtbos #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom #mathsky #edusky #logicpuzzle

Math nerds and crafty geeks! You are invited to crochet a granny square based on a cellular automaton for the Granny Life project at www.grannylifecrochet.com. Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :) #mathsky #crochet 🧶

The math behind the moves [Image - two people during a chess match]

Fashion tips for writing math - [Image - 2 stick people considering two algebraic expressions: one is "coy" with a "hint of mystery". The other is "messy" and "like explaining a dream to someone". These drawings are awesome]