Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

As somebody who benefited from Aid to Families with Dependent Children, I have been hit hard by the cut in SNAP benefits. Our country makes it a shameful thing to be poor, which its own cruelty. I'm sharing this guide for food resources by state: public.3.basecamp.com/p/a9yMPykFyf...

Can your high school students create a parallelogram, triangle, or rectangle by listing their points when given one? Find out using these three Open Middle problem from Bryan Anderson. www.openmiddle.com/creating... www.openmiddle.com/creating... www.openmiddle.com/creating...

New: More than $50 billion (yes, with a b) for education is in jeopardy if the Education Department eventually proceeds with the layoffs it implemented last Friday. A federal judge put them on hold as of Wednesday. Here's a list of the affected funding streams: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Fraction comparison strategy: Same parts away from the whole

I also cannot help but think of Oklahoma as Indian country & this as another attempt at pushing white colonial narratives on native kids.

My PhD student @leonielorenz.bsky.social (with Eva Geissen) has made this nice (free) online course to introduce mathematical modelling for biology: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... Including both molecular and epidemiological examples

Ph.D. students Devan Mackenzie and Hajra Fayyaz plus @dyong.bsky.social and I have a new chapter out. We worked with a group of teachers to work out what culturally sustaining pedagogies might look like in math and computer science classrooms www.igi-global.com/book/cultura...

The value of 0⁰ seems like a plot hole.

Great blog from two of our PhD students on our CHIMERA hub about using mathematical models and vital signs data from intensive care to support clinicians www.ukri.org/blog/mathema...

Join us Thursday, August 21 at 4pm Pacific Time for our next Inspiring Math Minds webinar. Peg Cagle will be sharing her tremendous wisdom with us all. Register for FREE: tinyurl.com/CMC-Webi... #iTeachMath @cmcmath.bsky.social @CAMathCouncil

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#iteachmath #mtbos We would like to invite you to participate in a research study to better understand how we can co-design, analyze, and improve instruction that leverages multilingual students’ languages.

Members of my research lab and I wrote Chapter 64, titled, "Meaningful Teacher Professional Development: A Learning Sciences Perspective" co-authors: @samanthamarshall.bsky.social, Grace A. Chen, Nadav Ehrenfeld, @brettegarner.bsky.social, @larajasien.bsky.social, Elizabeth Metts & Katherine S-M

If you want to read more, here is the link to the chapter on @researchgate.bsky.social: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our argument: ◾ Most research summarizing high quality PD proposes lists of features of quality PD ◾ BUT, while there is a general consensus, there are points of contention. What is more, there are examples of PD that meet the criteria set out on the lists but don't support meaningful learning

i didn't make it to #AERA2025 this year, but see that photo (top right) of the person signing what looks like a phone book? that is the publication celebration for the new Handbook on Educational Policy!

🧪💪I know folks are struggling to appeal #NSF grant terminations I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance. *Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Who bears the brunt of these cuts? Well, here's a word cloud of the most frequent terms from the titles and abstracts of terminated grants, with word size proportional to frequency:

This is your periodic reminder: NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) *still* remains paused in new awards. Here's an updated graph. But also see below thread about why the nation needs these #STEMed investments, including for sustaining the *future* of scientific research.

🚨NEW PUB ALERT!🚨 Teachers as agentic synthesizers: Recontextualizing personally meaningful practices from professional development, with Sammie Marshall as first author... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Education researchers seriously doubt that the Education Department will be able to maintain the federal data sets after half the agency’s staff was fired. chroni.cl/4bTbeQk

...This piece is really important because we are not allowed to communicate this to grantees, but it could potentially help a lot of people about to submit stuff if they just knew to avoid certain words on their biosketch and other support."

From an NIH source re. grant terminations "These searches are pulling in things based on 'other support' sections and biosketches, so science may be held up just because someone mentions that they serve on a DEIA committee, or has a completely different grant that uses a 'problematic' word. (cont)

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

If you teach middle school mathematics and have any multilingual students, we would like to invite you to participate in a study. Participants will receive a $2,000 stipend each year! Let me know if you have any questions! #iteachmath #mtbos

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

My colleague @jackiemader.bsky.social describes an absurd catch-22 in childcare subsidies. Poor women need childcare so they can work, but when they start working, they lose the subsidies and cannot afford childcare. hechingerreport.org/parents-are-...

If you are a middle school math teacher who teaches some multilingual students, please consider joining our study! Participants will receive a $2,000 stipend each year #iteachmath Please feel free to email, DM, or comment with questions!

Hi Friends, please repost for reach if this may be of interest for someone you know. Gratitude!

Make sure you follow the #BlackEduSky starter pack go.bsky.app/R1Fhqjw

Weekend reading: What the Trump administration COULD mean for K-12 students with disabilities: -Reduced federal $$ for public school special ed. -Bureaucratic chaos -New federally funded private school choice program -Long-anticipated updates to decades-old federal law www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

New pub led by doctoral student Amelia Rivera: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Three reasons why so few eighth graders in the poorest schools take algebra hechingerreport.org/proof-points... "Nearly half of the wealthiest schools offered algebra to all of their eighth grade students, regardless of math ability, compared with about a third of the poorest schools."