iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Rosevear @jrosevear.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

They call it "Silly Con Valley" for a reason!

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Zeno Rogue @zenorogue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Dr. Maria at Natural Math @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@ravensburgertcg.bsky.social discontinued Chocolate Fix by ThinkFun, the lovely puzzle maker which they bought and are now apparently neglecting. Boo! 😿 Happy sailing to all the pirates 🏴‍☠️ - you know what to do. #iTeachMath

Chocolate Fix, a sweet logic game now unavailable.

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Benjamin Banneker Association @bbamath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Students learn differently when they know they belong. Belonging in mathematics means students are not simply present in the classroom — they are encouraged to contribute ideas, take intellectual risks, ask questions, solve problems, and see themselves as mathematicians. #MathEducation

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 20/09/2026

And here is how to make a parabola with sand

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out I have just posted my latest report on what student life is *really* like at Alpha School, based on interviews with several student sources. They describe anti-patterns, rocket ships & pirate ships, and "getting nuked." Here's a short summary.

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FOURTH REPORT: Former Alpha School students speak out

“A science experiment that’s been framed as a school” - “pretty much a concentration camp” - “cool the first few months and then it just becomes shit”

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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From Ghorman to Niamos: energo-political myth-making and comparative imperial extractivism in mining and tourism

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Alison Martin @alisonmartin57.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Weekend weaving school

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Dr. Maria at Natural Math @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe. (If it comes with ST: TNG system of the world, that is.)

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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our mighty li'l math conference in Feb 2027 now open for proposals. Please come and share! #miched #iteachmath www.gvsu.edu/mathinaction/

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Math in Action

Math in Action 2027 conference at GVSU seeks presenters! Share math education insights.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bring back the old days when maths-related spam was patiently hand-crafted drivel about zeta functions and the nature of the universe...

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

John articulates a distinction that is often overlooked. Criticism of EdTech is necessary but insufficient for humanizing education. Many prominent tech-lashers who oppose automation also advocate for forms of standardization based on the same logic of efficiency & optimization underpinning tech.

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Peter Keep @mathprofpeter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A while back I started putting an empty box on the first page of graded assignments that says "What would you like feedback on?" I always give feedback, but it's helpful when students have something specific they want comments about.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/09/2026

Summer xkcd.com/3299/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.

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Dr. Maria at Natural Math @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

By-and-For matters. I first learned it reading about community-responsive (or not!) ed in grad school: books like Savage Inequalities. By-and-For principle applies to education, governance, storytelling: EVERYTHING. My fav story about it is Falling Free, a sci-fi story of engineering & liberation.

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Matt Zucker @mattz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This fall I am co-teaching a brand-new class – ENGR 009: Fabricating Tessellations and Tilings. It's roughly equal parts math and design, filtered thru an engineering perspective. The syllabus and all assignments are freely available to the public at mzucker.github.io/e9_f2026/

A hexagonal tile with a chamfered edge and an interacting sawtooth pattern.

A 9-triangle polyiamond shown tiling with symmetries *x, 22x, 632, 22x (again), and 2222.

A snippet of decorative tiles from the Alhambra.

GRT Architects "flutes and reeds" tile system

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Dr. Maria at Natural Math @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OpenAI cheated on their homework? 🤨

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Murray Bourne @bourne2learn.com · 09/09/2026

"We teach to enlighten everyone, not to train only the future professionals." [Paul Lockhart]

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 08/09/2026

Now ready for you to enjoy: e-infinity.space/picture-book/ #MathArt #MathSky

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

THE TEN STAGES OF BOOK WRITING:

1. Faffing.
2. Terror.
3. More faffing.
4. ‘SHIT I AM SO BEHIND.’
5. Zombie who can’t think about anything but book and dreams about book every night.
6. ‘This is awful.’
7. ‘This might be OK, and that faffing might have been of benefit after all.’
8. ‘Oh my god I hope I don’t die before I’m done.’
9. ‘DONE! Never doing that again.’
10. Write another book.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are some really good eggs. Like, actually genuinely good eggs. Then there are some really rotten ones. Then there are all the other eggs that are fine sitting next to the rotten ones in the carton and are contaminated by proximity.

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Dan Finkel @mathforlove.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Some folks reached out to me recently with small bespoke websites featuring riddles, math-y games, etc., lately. AI makes this kind of stuff easier to produce than ever. Do you think there's a place for it? I'll share some...

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Dr. Maria at Natural Math @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@markgonyea.bsky.social Your covers would fit well here bsky.app/hashtag/kidl... (today is the day, and every first Thursday).

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Dr. Maria at Natural Math @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That's not right. 😿 => 🏴‍☠️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Since the semester starts in a few days, I thought I'd share a link to the web app I've been working on: divisbyzero.github.io/impossible-o.... It lets you design your own impossible objects! Anyone can view and rotate them in a browser, but you can also download the OpenSCAD file to generate a

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.

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Dr. Maria at Natural Math @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I look at clouds in the sky as objects huge enough for awe. Then there's this. 😱

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Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

This is a fun clock: the hours, minutes and seconds marks are on circles of increasing radius in the hyperbolic plane, and there's only one hand. You can find the different markings by moving around the plane. jpivarski.github.io/hyperbolic-map/…

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One-handed clock — hyperbolic-map

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Alison Martin @alisonmartin57.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

slow paper weave. August 2026.

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Dr. Maria at Natural Math @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the glass is half full. Pessimist: the glass is half empty. Game theorist: Suppose two people are going to play Half-Empty/Half-Full Dilemma Game repeatedly...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me

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David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I love the fact that if you add the same thing to the numerator and denominator of a fraction it gets closer to 1. (So if your fraction was less than 1 then adding to top and bottom makes it bigger but if it’s more than 1 then adding to top and bottom makes it smaller.)

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