My favourite use for #AI this year? I used the Santa emoji for an activity and needed the back of his head, so I asked ChatGPT to give me the image: #mtbos #mathed #santa

Love Christmas! My colleague made these Christmas Tree cupcakes to share. I'm enjoying it while I invigilate this end of term AP Calculus test.

Me (reading blogpost): Ugh, this is just AI slop. Author: It's my work! Me: No, I'd really like to read your work, but not AI's homogenization of it (It was formatted exactly like ChatGPT, em-dashes abound, "not this but this" structures, etc). Author <blocks me>

I was making a #OneNote Page for my Gr 10 class and we were turning back time to a previous topic to use in our new problem. I tipped Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time" in as a side-note. Then I played the video.. and quickly deleted it. youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A... Little too racy.

Learning happens best when teachers look students in the eye, not look down on them. Dialogue, not authority, engenders well-being. Santiago Rincon-Gillargo at #otfcurriculumforum #mtbos #onted #mathed

"Learning to be taught" (the required compliance for reasonable management and safety, that becomes an overwhelming aspect of schools) is not equal to "Learning to learn" (Learning as a practice of freedom) Santiago Rincon-Gillargo at #otfcurriculumforum #mtbos #mathed

"We may not be able to replace the system, but we can create the friction that makes cracks in the system's concrete in which life can flourish" Benjamin Freud via Dr. Santiago Rincon-Gillargo at @otffeo Curriculum Forum @OAMEcounts #mathed #mtbos

"This is just axiomatically true... which is MathSpeak for 'Because I told you so!'" @freya.bsky.social via www.youtube.com/@acegikmo

#mtbos gang, assemble!

[New Podcast] This episode features Stacey Jacobs previewing their Nov 12th @oamecounts.bsky.social members only webinar "Empowering Math Learners: Executive Function Strategies to Support Math Learning". More info: talks.oame.on.ca/season-8 #MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath

The @oamecounts.bsky.social November Newsletter is out! What's going on in Ontario Mathematics? (spoiler: Leadership Conference with Dr. Elham Kazemi tonight, Wed, at 7pm!) sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/n... #onted #mathed #mtbos

Sorry, #AI ... the document is LONG because it's important, and the text has been chosen deliberately to convey meaning by the author. I don't need Reader's Digest abridged and condensed versions.

LLMs are injective and invertible. They show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space. Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

Me: And after you substitute into the equation, it's just arithmetic. Student: What's arithmetic?

Two things from #NCTMatl25 that I'm going to be using *this* week: Gail Burrill's algebra problem, and @gwaddell.bsky.social and Ed Keppelmann's 4 pile Nim.

I'm excited for my #AI schedule tonight at #ExplorAItion ! There's still time to register (and *cough* there's a special OAME code for 50% off) ecoo.org/exploraition... #mtbos #mathed #onted

"Discrete mathematics in primary and secondary schools in the United States" 2004 DeBellis Valerie A. & Joseph G. Rosenstein There are some fire quotes in this #MathEdPaperOfTheWeek #mtbos #iteachmath link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This looks interesting! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

So I had two tasks at #NCTMATL25 (besides presenting with Cynthia Shi) ... see @pegcagle.bsky.social and Gail Burrill ... mission accomplished! And a bonus visit with Vicki Lyons Forgot to take a pic with Peg & Vicki, but I got Gail! #mtbos #mathed

Okay, this is still an issue in high school #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

Each representation is correct, but which are helpful, at what stage, and for which purpose? #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

So the previous session mentioned procedural fluency versus conceptual understanding. The next session drove the point home. #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

Inspired by #NCTMATL25 to present at an upcoming conference? Both NCTM and OAME 2026 conference proposals close on Nov. 1st. Here are some thoughts on the benefits of writing a math conference proposal. pbbmath.weebly.com/blog/confere... #ITeachMath @oamelearns.bsky.social

The only reason I would want to teach small children would be for the contexts - & sketches - they create! #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

Use "Create a mathematical sketch" rather than "draw a picture" (it was referenced from another session so I don't have a reason why atm) #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... Check work from @marthaalibali.bsky.social !

Note to self ... Look up research on gesturing in mathematics education. If any of you out in the #mtbos have some ideas ... #NCTMATL25 #mathed

"Because of the abstract nature of mathematics, people have access to mathematical ideas only through the representations of those ideas" from Adding It Up. #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

Oh... The exhibit hall at #NCTMATL25 isn't open today, now that I have some time. #mtbos #mathed

"I want procedural fluency from conceptual understanding" #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

The session had us ask our favorite #AI what we should do in Atlanta while at @NCTM I love #chatOAME :) #NCTMATL25 #mtbos #onted #mathed

Sorry, in a few minutes I'll be geeking out a bit... At #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

Art and Math Collide At #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

Education is the one venue where the client doesn't want the full value of the experience. #ntcmatl25 #mtbos

Issues in lesson plan generation using #AI at #nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed

I read ~10,000 teacher prompts they made to #AI At #NCTMatl25 Friday @ 1pm, come hear what I learned about how and why math teachers use #AI for their classes, and how that can improve your use. #mathed #mtbos #onted

I'm in Atlanta for the @NCTM Conference! Friday I get to present w/Cynthia Shi on our work developing, designing, using, criticizing & theorizing with & about #AI in math class, especially for preparation, content development, assessment & knowledge. #mtbos #nctmatl25 #OntEd #mathed

The schedule for NCTM Atlanta, with descriptions all in one page for easy CTRL-Fing: jedediyah.github.io/nctm2025/sch... I'll try to fix any missing info! #NCTM2025 #NCTMATL25 #mtbos #ITeachMath #NCTM

Barbara Oakley [00:25:24] "People simply don’t understand how they themselves learn. And because they don’t, they’re misusing their brains by offloading information to large language models, you know, just ask ChatGPT." docs.google.com/document/d/1...

𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓑𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓼: the 27th annual TEAMS Math Conference t Brebeuf College School, Sat, Oct 25, 9:30-12:30. Keynote by @jrappaport27.bsky.social then a breakout session & light lunch. $15 OAME members, $20 non-members. More info & to register drive.google.com/file/d/1LggM... #onted #mtbos

𝗥𝗲𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: Join Tara Flynn & Shelley Yearley & discover 8 Core Concepts & leave with ready-to-use strategies. Free, and free dinner! Tues, Oct 21st 5:30-7:30 forms.gle/AXDDyBccMWEB... Two In-Person Locations : 1) St. Dominic SS, Bracebridge 2) St. Joseph's SS, Barrie #mtbos #onted

On Wed Oct 8th at 8pm, @davidpetro314.bsky.social talks with Chad Harris on Neurodivergence: "Wait, what was I learning? Shedding light on Neurodivergent Experiences in the Classroom" Register for the @OAMEtalks at mcis.oame.on.ca More info at docs.google.com/document/d/1... #mtbos #onted

#chatOAME 💗 @Desmos Whenever a reply to a teacher involves a graphable equation or table of data, the teacher can click on a Desmos chip and it opens to a Desmos graph automagically! www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatoa... Thanks, Desmos, for your awesome API & generosity to the #onted #mtbos community

Coquitlam Superintendent: We're pushing out a new @MSPowerApps almost every week to accelerate the work of schools, based on feedback & suggestions from teachers & admin Microsoft #aitour I like using PowerApps/Flow - make a huge time save w/some investment #Mtbos #onted

Microsoft: We're answering service request 12% faster than before Microsoft #aitour #mtbos #onted He didn't give time period but it was an interesting stat

Peter Singh TDSB : how do you ensure that time saved by #AI doesn't turn into "latte time" (his words) for teachers. Well first. Every time saving innovation over the past hundred years has not reduced teacher work hours. And second. OFFENDED. Microsoft #AITour #mtbos #onted

Seneca CEO : "the problem with AI innovation is not the employee, its the boss" Me: (no comment) Microsoft #AITour #mtbos #onted

Coquitlam Superintendent : one of my problems are continual Innovators who are constantly pushing, experimenting and stretching boundaries, and they may coach with policy or safety Microsoft #AITour #mtbos #onted

Microsoft : seconding teachers into IT is a critically necessary step. Me: shocked pikachu face! Microsoft #AITour #mtbos #onted

Coquitlam Superintendent : teachers create & have a ton of data on students (ed: not necessarily in digital format), leveraging that with #AI can be a huge boost. Teachers don't see themselves as data sources (hmm..i do at report time!) Microsoft #AITour #mtbos #onted