Math Teaching/Learning Enthusiast, Member of Desmos Teaching Faculty, Knowles Senior Fellow, Lover of All Things Puzzling, Creator of Story Tables

Joined March 2012
My talk at @NCTM Annual was a dream come true. I have posted my resources on my brand new Substack! (storytables.substack.com).
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“If you can, use a knife” — powerful tools make a difference @MsHelft on her beliefs about mathematics. “Simple, versatile, hard to forget how to use, power is in how you use it.” #NCTMCHI24 #NCTM @KnowlesTeachers
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“Story tables help me teach the things I believe in, use them if they help you teach the things you believe in too” @MsHelft #NCTMCHI24 #NCTM
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A story table is a table where we tell the whole story. You can start at the beginning, middle or end. @MsHelft #NCTMCHI24 #NCTM
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Working on my slides about story tables for 9:45 tomorrow (Friday). N231 (by the Connie’s pizza). Excited to do math together. @NCTM @KnowlesTeachers @ExploreMTBoS @desmosclassroom
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Starting to get excited (and nervous) for @NCTM 's Annual Meeting and my first public talk on Story Tables in 6 years! Come find me at McCormick Place on Friday morning at 9:45!
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Why do we teach math at all? To see the world through someone else’s eyes @MandyMathEd #NCTMDC23 #ignite
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Ignite talk: why do we teach math? To see the world through someone else’s eyes.
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What a fun application of LCM! tiktok.com/t/ZTREMAGhR/
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I am so grateful for all that this human has given me. She deserves to be shouted from the rooftops. @AyannaPerry2
Today MGB spotlights Ayanna Perry, the Associate Director for the Teaching Fellows Program at the Knowles Teacher Initiative. Read more about Ayanna Perry at mathematicallygiftedandblack…
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Controversial opinions here. @Idil_A_ @Trianglemancsd alt: cook’s illustrated talking about savory oatmeal.
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Math Internet. Do you teach students to factor with a=1 first and then a>1? For the last several years I have invited students to just use the area model and puzzle it out without diatinguishing the cases. Now I'm finding out that that was unusual. #MTBoS what say you?
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Shira Helft retweeted
Also the new home for @ddmeyer sightings, math-based puns, + @mrchowmath CL wizardry 👀
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Holy.
Wait, only 3 African American students in all of San Francisco took an AP math test in 2020-21. Three?! As Amy Winehouse said, what kind of f%^!ery is this? Thank you to @BethKellySF for the sobering dataviz here. So many troubling things about this. #mtbos #mathchat #statschat
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This is one of the coolest things I've seen.
I made a whole escape room puzzle game in Desmos. Check it out: student.desmos.com/join/4qx2…
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Shira Helft retweeted
For anyone worried that Activity Builder may no longer be free to use...
Replying to @BBonuedi @karimkai
As the CEO of Amplify, I commit that AB will continue to remain free for teachers and students and will continue to improve in perpetuity (I will eat my TI-59 Calculator from 1979 if we break that commitment).
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