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phonner, 7 days ago to random

I was recently subject to local TV news for the first time in a while. Still the same. Pretty much every story is BE AFRAID BE VERY AFRAID! with some occasional human interest thrown in to break up the monotony.

phonner, 9 days ago to math

Inspired by my brilliant student (https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@phonner/112419322877058443) I've been playing around with (e)-like sums. Here's a fascinating one!

[ \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} {\frac{n^4}{n!}}=15e ]
This is strange enough to provoke wonder, but simple enough to serve as an entry-point to an interesting generalization.

#Math #Calculus

phonner, 12 days ago to random

There are very few circumstances under which I would choose to eat a raisin.

phonner, 13 days ago to math

Brian Conrad, the Stanford mathematician who has written extensively about the problems with the proposed California Mathematics Framework (CMF), is now the subject of a formal complaint filed with Stanford University by the President of the central section of the California Math Council accusing him of "reckless disregard for academic integrity".

https://sites.google.com/view/publiccommentsonthecmf/#h.u9k2csw8r9s4

#Math #MathEd

phonner, 14 days ago to random

Logged into Twitter to look around, as I occasionally do. I was met with:

• Humblebrag moralizing from people who don't understand the morals they are bragging about possessing
• Several posts intentionally designed to elicit a negative reaction from me
• A few thoughtful posts with no engagement whatsoever
• Four people complaining about Twitter and/or social media
• Two people I miss hearing from

phonner, 15 days ago to math

Something I keep coming back to as a teacher and learner is Papert's concept of "Objects to Think With". In some ways, math for me is simply a collection of objects to think with. The guitar, too. Card games. The Rubik's cube. A basketball. And a simple way to be a lifelong learner is to continually seek out new objects to think with.

#Math #Teaching #MathEd

phonner, 1 month ago to math

Wrapped up our unit on infinite series by constructing some fractions with interesting decimal representations!

[ \frac{100}{9899} = 0.01010203050813213455... ]
#math #calculus

phonner, 1 month ago to random

Today I learned a sugar plum is just a ball of sugar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_plum

phonner, 1 month ago to ukteachers

Texas will use AI to grade free response questions on standardized exams for reading, writing, science, and social studies this year.

"For $50, students and their parents can request a rescore if they think the computer .. got it wrong."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/staar-artificial-intelligence-computer-grading-texas/

#Education #Teaching

gregeganSF, 1 month ago to random

My new novel MORPHOTROPHIC will be published on 9 April.

Amazon is now accepting preorders for the ebook; other venues will follow soon.

There will also be print-on-demand editions from Amazon available on 9 April, but they can't be pre-ordered.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ46L396

phonner, 1 month ago to random

I righted a lifetime wrong this weekend by finally learning to whistle with my fingers.

phonner, 1 month ago to math

My latest column for @QuantaMagazine is about the many ways recursion can be used across math classes, and starts with one of my all time favorite math problems!

https://www.quantamagazine.org/math-that-connects-where-were-going-to-where-weve-been-20240322/

#Math #MathEd

fractalkitty, 2 months ago to random

Hi all! The 225th Carnival of Mathematics is posted!

https://fractalkitty.com/2024/03/02/carnival-of-mathematics-225/

Thanks everyone for the submissions, blogging, musings, and art.

If you feel like I have missed something or forgot to submit, please let me know.

@KarenCampe @jcponcemath @stecks @drj @shiffman @diffgeom

#carnivalOfMaths #blogCarnival #mtbos #mathArt #connections225

phonner, 2 months ago to math

Student 1: That's the craziest shape I've ever seen!
Student 2: That's a hyperbola.
Student 1: And that was hyperbole.

#Math #MathEd #Teaching #Calculus

Believe it or not, a true story!

jeffmoore, 2 months ago to math

Stop it with the medieval #math requirements, already! #education #school #student #teacher @edutooter @edutooter https://justequations.org/blog/the-latest-in-the-inexplicable-war-on-high-school-data-science-courses

juergen_hubert, 3 months ago to blogging

I'm curious - what are people using for self-hosted #blogging on the #Fediverse ?

#Friendica , or just #Wordpress with the #ActivityPub plugin? Or are there any other alternatives I haven't considered?

#FediHelp

phonner, 3 months ago to math

I was excited to present a new workshop for teachers tonight titled "The Geometry of Statistics"! I love that I am continually learning as a teacher, and I'm fortunate to have opportunities to share what I learn with other teachers.

https://mrhonner.com/archives/21683

#Math #MathEd #Statistics #LinearAlgebra #Geometry

phonner, 3 months ago to math

I once sat in a department meeting where a teacher loudly and seriously asserted that students learn better when chalk is used, and others nodded along in agreement.

#Math #MathEd

phonner, 3 months ago to random

You know who is a super cool and nice person in real life? @AlSweigart! And I totally forgot to ask him about his hobby of picking up litter.

phonner, 3 months ago to random

I really don't understand why people who left Twitter angry and disillusioned would use Bluesky. It's vulnerable to the same problems. It was started by the exact same person!

phonner, 3 months ago to TodayILearned

People tell me my job is easy

You get summers off.

You only work nine months of the year.

You’re done at 3 pm.

You get paid to babysit.

Students at that school won’t succeed anyway, so you don’t have to do much.

Students at that school will succeed anyway, so you don’t have to do much.

Teaching advanced courses is easy. My students don’t even know the basics.

It must be easy to teach those students. Mine can’t handle that kind of work.

I wish I got to teach those students. Mine aren’t that engaged.

You just walk around asking questions. Your students are the ones doing everything.

https://mrhonner.com/archives/21673

#MathEd #Teaching #Education

phonner, 3 months ago to math

My latest column for @QuantaMagazine is about one of my favorite mathematical ideas: transitivity! Well, technically it's about intransitivity. Also, inspired by the football playoffs!

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-surprisingly-simple-math-behind-puzzling-matchups-20240125/

#Math #MathEd #Algebra