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Kate Nowak

@k8nowak.bsky.social
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Slinging bits at Brilliant.org Formerly teaching high school & making IM K-12 Math at illustrativemathematics.org.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The week’s dinners. <— laughs in woman.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don't fix my typos befoer hitting SEND anymore because it signals written-by-human.
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
post by @ItsAndyRyan


Her: who's your favorite literary vampire?
Me: the one in Sesame Street
Her: he doesn't count
Me: I can assure you that he does
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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I rarely, rarely say or believe that "you don't get it unless you've experienced it" but when it comes to NYS Regents, unless you've gone through NYS HSs or taught at the HS level, it's hard to understand what this shift means. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/n...
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New York Moves Away from Regents Exams for High School Seniors (Gift Article)
A state board authorized phasing out the tests, long viewed as a rite of passage for high school seniors, as a diploma requirement. What replaces them is an open question.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When it was 15 years ago and my relatives were sharing obviously-false posts I trained them to check snopes first. Now they are sharing obviously-ai-generated images and videos and...I don't know what to tell them, other than 'just stop sending me literally anything'.
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Francis Su @mathyawp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
With the start of the semester just a week away, here’s what I decided to say to my upper division math course about how AI will or won’t change what they’re learning… francissu.substack.com/p/the-enduri...
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The Enduring Value of Math, in an Age of AI
Thoughts I’ll share at the start of my upper division math course
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 19/08/2026
The first iPhone was introduced in 2008 and we had a nationwide wild west for cell phones in schools until about two years ago. Hopefully y'all don't wait 16 years before banning perv glasses.
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Daniel Wilson @helsig.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A rotating heptagon with vertices matching the contours of a rose curve. #RoseCurve #MathArt
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
this is a dead kennedys album cover
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think I share this like once a decade but it came up today and here it is again. ‘Math is invented’ is dissolvable to numbers were invented for #reasons. I love everyone who had a hand in making it. youtu.be/hgZwSRpfouQ?...
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sesame street fish to infinity
YouTube video by Beverly Louise
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JaneLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Writing about Nolan movies the way men have been writing about rom-com tropes for decades? Inject it into my veins!
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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I wrote about how @hpicciotto.bsky.social makes such wonderful (and useful) mathematical activities. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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How Henri Picciotto Designs Great Lessons
Learning from one of the best to ever do it.
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Justin Lanier @jlanier.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
What do mathematicians do? How do they make new mathematical discoveries? Why does that matter for K-12 math education? If you are a math teacher and you are curious about these questions, join in on "21st century mathematics" in July! Free, online, and flexible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UIx...
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"21st century mathematics" returns in July 2026!
YouTube video by Justin Lanier
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I work very hard and I would like to try pizza
CNN showing police horses in Manhattan
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is the funniest thing I read in a very long time.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I learned multiple verses of the song at the end as a NY state first grader and can (and will happily) sing them on request.
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Alison Martin @alisonmartin57.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
hyperbolic quilting - inspired by Costa-Wohlgemuth minimal surface
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A lot of folks were approvingly sharing Kelsey Piper's post about the problems of educational research. Here's my take. // Ill-Informed Essays About Education Research are Weak and Sloppy. Why? edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/ill-inform...
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Ill-Informed Essays About Education Research are Weak and Sloppy. Why?
Morgan Polikoff
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samjshah.bsky.social @samjshah.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I have a high school student who created a fictitious journal for Ramanujan for a class project, after researching his life. It's so cool, and has entries from a fictitious Ramanujan along with others. If this intrigues you, please follow&share this insta: www.instagram.com/lucie.r.vk_e... #MTBoS
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Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!
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Quick and Meaningless Data Collection
Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…
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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
One of the big ideas I wish was better understood in ed discourse is the difference between textbook-adoption states (red) and non-textbook adoption states (blue). The levers of power are so different but so often ignored. AKA This could NEVER happen in NYS. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
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Texas Considers Required Reading List for Schools, Which Includes the Bible
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Darbs (formerly Hedge😅) @approxnormal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Long shot BUT does someone have the HS version of this that they’d be willing to swap for the K-5 version? I bought this and never needed it.
Cover of “Math Tasks for the Thinking Classroom - Grades K-5” book. 
Green border, different color icons at the bottom of student stick figures solving math problems in front of a whiteboard.
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Jenn Borgioli Binis @jennbinis.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
BEECHER WOULD HAVE BEAT HIS ASS INTO THE 17th CENTURY.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I said what I said
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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 12/02/2026
AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post Absolute cinema crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...
@scottshambaugh I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior

here: https://crabby-

rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-

website/blog/posts/gatekeeping-in-open- source-the-scott-shambaugh-story

Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We shipped this new kind of thing today and I'm pretty pumped about it! Learners get to strategize about equation solving without having to perfectly execute every algebra move.
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Sara Van Der Werf @saravanderwerf.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This isn't easy to share, but I'm grateful for any support, prayers, or encouragement during this season. Love to all. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Donate to Support for Sara After Condo Flood, organized by Amy Carroll
Sara, my sister, is going through an incredibly tough time. Two weeks ago, during a sub… Amy Carroll needs your support for Support for Sara After Condo Flood
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Yay! The kickstarter for our mathy graphic novel AL, Logical is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nat... We appreciate any views, retweets, and support for this YA story of curiosity, perseverance, and problem solving.
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AL, Logical! A Young Adult Graphic Novel
It's like a math circle, but in a haunted multi-dimensional mansion where a brave artist finds a restless ghost of a mathematician.
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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Celeste Davis on gender and college celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d... Matches my anecdotal experience.
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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's BEAM hiring season! This is a phenomenal program. If it looks interesting, you should apply. New this year they're hiring curriculum developers. (I believe you have to be located in NYC or LA.) job-boards.greenhouse.io/beam?gh_src=...
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Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM)
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Jenny White @jennswhite.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Posted on the farm IG, but moving it here also. I made a mini quilt Rebel Loon for @anniekp.bsky.social. I’m gonna make a few more + protest mini quilts to raffle away. Want one? Call your senators. More details below. +
A quilted rebel loon, the state bird of MN. It is made from recycled fabric and is a black bird with a blue shield that looks like the Star Wars Rebel shield. The background is white and there is a purple boarder.
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Shelby Strong 💗💜💙 @sneffleupagus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Hi hi I have really exciting news The Math Routine Collaborative starts back up THIS SUNDAY! Join us as the one and only @mfannie.bsky.social leads the routine Notice and Wonder You can register at strongermath.com/MRC to participate in math routines and unpack how to lead them in your classroom.
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Math Routine Collaborative, Stronger Math
Have you ever.
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The Cuisenaire Company @cuisenaireco.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We have now deactivated our X account. Please share our bluesky account with people that have an interest in mathematics education, and maths manipulatives @cuisenaireco.bsky.social #mathseducation #manipulatives #playislearning #pedagogy #cuisenairerods
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David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Phew a lot of trouble comes from the belief that maths is a big list of problems and a solution method for each one.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Omg I can’t. #gobills
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I had a joke about Sophie Germain, but no one believed I wrote it.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Side note: "crafted lovingly by humans" is becoming the next premium something or other. More to the point: I need more people to go solve the preview pass puzzle so the batch gets to 100 and we get in. I just solved this puzzle to get access to Thinky Dailies! Try it out! thinkygames.com/dailies/
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Thinky Dailies, a daily puzzle adventure!
Join our thinky friend on an adventure through handcrafted daily puzzles - every day, a new puzzle, new rules, new surprises.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Very good piece on the quite fast rollout of "AI-powered" textbooks in South Korea. The government went from making the textbooks mandatory to supplementary because of complaints and now the textbook companies are suing because "the market suddenly disappear[ed]." restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
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AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I'll just be over here banging my head against the table. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?
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Paula Beardell Krieg @paulakrieg.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I've been making paper constructions of pattern blocks, then decided to add some extra ones to the traditional set. I'm particularly proud of this irregular pentagon. Even though I worked this out according to my own agenda, it's characteristics are so cool that I have no doubt that it's a shape +
Irregular pentagon that plays well with other pattern blocks.
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Catriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
❤️ Love this ❤️ @mathforge.org has done what I’ve never been organised enough to do myself, and catalogued every #geometrypuzzle I’ve ever posted on social media. It looks amazing!
A screenshot of the puzzle gallery (https://notes.mathforge.org/notes/published/puzzle+gallery) showing lots of tiny geometry colourful puzzles
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
seems like the easier solution is to give everyone free healthcare and pay for it by like buying 17 less missiles or taxing 53 dudes 1.8 percent more
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Jonathan @rawrdimus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Geometry just needs to be two units: * Yep, it adds to 180! * Ok, but what if we cut it in half like THIS?
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Will NYS math assessments ever not be the literal freaking worst?
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Andy Bass @andybassny.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
200 years ago today, October 26, 1825: The Erie Canal was ceremonially opened in Buffalo, New York. The 363-mile-long artificial waterway stretched from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo on Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. It transformed Buffalo into a major hub.
A 2018 historical marker about the Erie Canal is mounted above an 1817 map of the proposed canal inside the Explore and More Children’s Museum in Buffalo, New York.  The museum at 130 Main Street is located by Canalside, a redeveloped waterfront at the 1825 terminus of the Erie Canal.  (Andy Bass photo, 2025)A view looking north along the Canalside boardwalk in Buffalo, New York, shows the south side of an undated historical marker erected by the Canal Society of New York State.  The waterfront marker overlooks the mouth of the Buffalo River by Lake Erie Harbor, the 1825 terminus of the Erie Canal.  (Andy Bass photo, 2025)A view looking south along the Canalside boardwalk in Buffalo, New York, shows the north side of an undated historical marker erected by the Canal Society of New York State.  The waterfront marker overlooks the mouth of the Buffalo River by Lake Erie Harbor, the 1825 terminus of the Erie Canal.  (Andy Bass photo, 2025)A marker for Mile Post Zero of the Erie Canal Trail overlooks the “Ruins at Canalside,” the site of a former nineteenth century distillery building, in Buffalo, New York.  The multi-use recreational trail runs 360 miles between Buffalo and Albany.  It primarily traces the canal’s historic towpaths.  (Andy Bass photo, 2025)
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Anyone out there know of a crosswalk between the Data Science Learning progressions and the Common Core SP standards? datasciencelearning.org
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K-12 Data Literacy and Data Science Learning Progressions
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dsrussosusan.bsky.social @dsrussosusan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
On of my geometry students just talked about the Angle Addition Prostitute and I think my day is over.
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I've 100% met this lady. "WHAT I AM BOTHERED BY? UNILLUSTRATED WORD PROBLEMS. SO LET’S GET ILLUSTRATING" pershmail.substack.com/p/curriculum...
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Curriculum Design is My Passion
Short imagined scenes
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Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Is it universally true that there is a shortage of red cuisenaire rods? Or do they just blink into another dimension in my presence?
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