Kid counting update: he can get to twenty, but still hits gibberish at 13/14/15 before landing nicely at 16. Incredible to witness.

What a cool result!

Yesss finally something I understand enough to remake in desmos! Delightful pattern. www.desmos.com/3d/wmps87t43t

Maybe noise. Maybe music. www.desmos.com/3d/jhuvygmlvq

Have you noticed a change of colors? 🍁 You can now define colors in the 3D calculator that depend directly on coordinates. 📝 Learn more in the Desmos Help Center: help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/art... #iteachmath #mathsky

3 months later, the beeps are gone but he smoothly counts to ten, then "twelve, fourteen, fourteen, fourteen, seven, nine".

I'm 6 minutes in and the founder of Alpha Schools has asserted (with no pushback) that "obviously, the teacher in front of the classroom was born out of the industrial revolution where we had to figure out how to really educate the masses".

Teachers, make your prediction before reading abstract: did students (Canadian, grades 4-7) do better with multiplying eg "1/2 × 1/2" or "1/2 of 1/2"?

1/5 Maybe your childhood inspiration ("This is who I want to be") was a movie star or an athlete. Mine was #Tom_Lehrer (1928-2025). I tracked down and studied the sheet music to his songs, memorized all of them (yes, including "The Elements"), and started writing & performing my own satiric ditties.

M is too young to really count, but if you say "five, four, three, two, one," he does a really good job continuing the pattern with "beep, beep, beep!"

I just keep finding things I want to learn about.

A rare miss from Desmos... It's actually my *innie* that has all the fun! teacher.desmos.com/collection/6...

Long day but kiddo (13mo) just waited in the hallway for me to wave goodnight before walking into his nursery so 🤗

The little one has a set of 7 stacking cups. He doesn't stack them yet, preferring to interfere with Dad's towers. If he always holds two of the cups (one in each hand), how many different towers can Dad make? (Cups are each a different size, and can only stack with the immediate next size.)

This is great: "By manipulating the figure, we can create multiple instances of the situation that still follow the original constraints we set for the figure." There's an assumption there that the constraints of the software match the constraints we intended. I love poking at how that can fail!

Took a photo walk this morning. Winter is here!

Overheard: "Where did you come from? Did you leave something behind?"

Did I take an extra-long lunch break today to go see #TheMarvels? Yes, I did. Was it fantastically enjoyable? Also yes. One of the best Marvel movies, certainly from whichever phase we're in now.