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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Oh my goodness, I just realized my book Rethinking Disability and Mathematics was voted by readers of EdWeek into the Ultimate PD Reading List! ♾️https://www.edweek.org/leadership/edweeks-ultimate-pd-reading-list-is-here/2026/07

Screen shoot, Mathematics reading and writing, starts with Rethinking Mathematics and Disability by Rachel Lambert

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I finally finished making an audiobook for Rethinking Disability and Mathematics. Only two years late! Hurrah! I also made some resources to go with it, like Math Homework (a printout with all the math problems in the book to use before you listen or read) ♾️ mathematizing4all.com/rethinking-d...

Image of Dina Williams, a beautiful Black woman wearing a blue patterned shirt and holding a marker. Text reads Rethinking Disability and Mathematics Audiobook now available, Read by Rachel Lambert, Available on Amazon, Audible, Kobo, Nook and many other platforms.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Free webinar next week with amazing LAUSD math teacher Janet Lee-Ortiz: Brilliant by Design: Honoring Neurodivergent Thinking as Transformative Learning 📅 February 19 ⏰ 4:00–5:00 PM 🎤 Janet Lee-Ortiz & Rachel Lambert 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/CMC-Webinars #ITeachMath #EduSky

Flyer. California Mathematics Council Presents Inspiring math Minds free webinar. Janet Lee-Ortiz and Rachel lambert, February 19th, 2026. Brilliant by design: Honoring neurodivergent thinking as transformative learning register at link tinyurl.com/CMC-Webinars

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Los Angeles is a city of angels and immigrants and the most wonderful humans #NoKings

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

So excited to get out there in community and fight for my beautiful country and the beautiful people who live here #NoKings

A cute black puppy next to a homemade quilted sign saying No Kings

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

What do we notice and wonder about the NCSM hotel in Atlanta? #NCSM2025

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

♾️ Hey Math Ed friends, who is coming to Atlanta this week for NCSM and NCTM? I am, and as always I am particularly excited for Games Night! Wednesday October 15 Doors Open at 8:00 pm Omni International Ballroom. I will be bringing a game that is new to me, that I have loved playing with teachers 1/

NCTM Game Night Wednesday October 15 Doors Open at 8:00 pm Omni International Ballroom E Cash Bar Bring a Friend Bring a Game or Just Bring Yourself! Sponsored by Benjamin Banneker Association and Todos

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Math Leaders! If you want to learn more about educational research in mathematics, and spend some time unpacking some of the claims that are out there, consider attending my Extended Session (2.5hrs) at NCSM 10/13 loom.ly/BWimKF4 #ITeachMath

57th Annual NCSM Conference Extended Session Photo of Rachel. Dr. Rachel Lambert Understanding and Communicating Current Educational Research Monday October 13, 2025 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The time is NOW to email the regents of the University of California to stop the settle! They met today to decide what to do, and a court decision is tomorrow. Email them at regentsoffice@ucop.edu Also contact the Gov. www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ #standupforuc

Dear Regents,
I am a professor at UC Santa Barbara. I want to urge you not to collaborate and cooperate with the Trump administration's illegal and unjust demands. It is not legal for them to blackmail universities; we need to fight rather than concede. Every university that concedes makes their power stronger. As a public university we have a particular obligation to the people of California. I expect you to protect our great institution, our students and the adults of our community.

We will not accept a false and unscientific definition of gender that will serve to actively exclude trans children and faculty. Do not agree to get rid of scholarships for students that support our diverse students. Do not freely provide admissions data that will be used to further restrict fairness in academia. And please do not further restrict student protest rights. They have a right to protest at the greatest public institution in the world. I am so proud to be a member of the UC community, and I will be devastated to see a public university of our reputation give way in the face of blatantly illegal demands and withholding of funds.

Sincerely,
Dr. Rachel Lambert

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Guess what state’s math conference I spoke at this week? (It was a delight!)

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Los Angeles people, I was having trouble finding protests for this Saturday, and after some digging, found some. Any thoughts? The golf course one seems fun but sketchy, also no time? If others find more info, please add to help people find actions. #LAProtests

Attention all students, on April 19th, enjoy touring Trump golf courses. Washington DC, Bedminster, NJ, Los Angeles. There is no information about times

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We had such a great time at the LACOE neurodiversity summit talking about math for everyone. As always @talknumber2me.bsky.social did an amazing job organizing it. she even made potato chips with my book on it. Definitely the coolest professional gift I have ever gotten. ♾️

Two women, a beautiful black woman smiling wearing a blue and gold jacked and a white woman smiling earring pink stripes. Both are holding potato chip packages that have the book cover to rethinking disability and mathematics

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

#StandUpForScience rally today in Los Angeles. Amazing crowd, many new to protesting. We need to put the pressure on, people. They won't stop stealing from us without pressure from us. #EduSky #ITeachMath #AcademicSky

Collage of images from Stand Up for Science protest in LA March 7, 2025. Lots of people holding signs, including: Science Saves Lives, Save Educational Science, No Science No Future, Without Science we Die, etc.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Amazing turnout at the Wilshire building for Stand up for science!

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Event on LACOE page: lacoepd.catalog.instructure.com/browse/cis/s...

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I am so excited about the upcoming PD for LACOE (Los Angeles County Office of Ed) educators (FREE!) on Rethinking Disability & Mathematics March 20th, featuring me and two of the incredible teachers I feature in my book: Suzanne Huerta @suzannehuerta.bsky.social and Sussan DeMatta! ♾️ #EduSky #UDL

Los Angeles County Office of Education
A Division of Special Education
& STEM Mathematics Unit Collaboration
Rethinking Disability & Mathematics:
Designing Mathematics Classrooms from the Margins
RACHEL LAMBERT
Associate Professor of Mathematics
UC Santa Barbara
Assistant Director, UCSB Math Project
With Special Guest teachers Sussan DeMatta and Suzanne Huerta!
Come explore the lived experiences of disabled students, examine barriers in math, delineate UDL Math Design Elements - engagement, representation and strategic academic supports.
FREE!
RACHEL LAMBERT
Author of Rethinking Disability and
MATHEMATICS
A UDL Math Classroom Guide for Grades K-8
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025
8:00am - 3:00 pm
Breakfast & Lunch
ALMANSOR COURT
700 S Almansor St,
Alhambra, CA 91801
Register
http://lacoe.k12oms.org/2237-261393
math@lacoe.edu

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Hey Boston folks! I am giving a talk at BU on March 18th on creativity, joy, accessibility, UDL Math and games! ♾️ #UDL #CAST #EduSky

Flyer for talk March 18th in BU Wheelock Mathematics Education Speaker Series, speaker is Rachel Lambert (picture of her smiling with a blue blazer). Title of talk is The roles of empathy and creativity in designing accessible mathematics experiences; UDL Math and Games Time. Description: Mathematics has been an inaccessible space for too long for too many students, including students with disabilities. In this talk, Dr. Lambert will explore her on-going work to create a math-specific version of Universal Design for Learning that centers the empathy and creativity of teachers. She will discuss the theoretical roots of her work, including critical disability studies and design thinking. She will present research on how math and special educators use empathy as a tool in design, particularly in shifting away from deficit thinking and towards trusting in the thinking of all learners. She will discuss an on-going project to develop mathematical interventions that work with the current emotional and material conditions of teachers and students in schools: non-digital Games Time.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In DC for work, found this lovely protest organized by Bodily Autonomy DC

White lady top part of her face. Protesters behind with signs. One reads. Protect trans kids

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Went to cancel my @latimes.com account because the billionaire owner is interfering with the production of news in a dangerous antidemocratic way. They asked why I was canceling and I got this menu. Where is the option for Dangerous Interference from Billionaire Owner?

Drop down menu to the question "to help us improve our service, please select a stop reason below" choices are Too Much Advertising, Don't want, Digital Tech Issues, Editorial Content, Movied, Billing Dispute, Price Increase, Poor Service, Illness, Wants Other Media, No Time to Read, Decline to Answer

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

chart from Children's Mathematics (Carpenter et al 2014) shows how kids direct model (objects/drawing representing all items) then how that shifts to counting strategies, then to "Flexible choice of strategies"- I see three types of OG subtraction here

chart from Carpenter et al 2014 on student solution strategies and the relationship to direct modeling, counting and then number facts

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

♾️ More #CMCS24 Maria Zavala on Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching was wonderful. This image she shared would be a Notice and Wonder for math, but she adds in people who connect us to bigger issues, we might notice and wonder why they are all women (a teen participant did!) or what they make

Image of the pastry counter at Shermanns in Palm Springs. Lots of plates of pastries, some pickles, drinks. Three women are visible behind the counter working. There is a scale and baskets with bread.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I loved this work from Cheryl Tobey #CMCS24 The teachers and paras she works with were looking to increase depth of student reflection, so they created a mini routine where students looked at a photo of themselves learning and were asked 1) what were you doing 2) what did you learn. #ITeachMath

Slide says a picture tells a thousand words. Images of kids working and another of Lego figures in arrays. Text says what were you doing and what were you learning

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

So much wonderful learning this weekend at CMC South! Tomy Nguyen and Jenny Goldberg rocked a session on non digital math games and joyful intervention. They focused on increasing math discourse through pairing students to play collaborative/competitive with Multi! #ITeachMath #JoyfulMath

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

So excited to present at CMC South. First preconference talking about research, then presenting on UDL + Math Saturday at 8:30. At the same time (!!!) my colleagues Jenny Goldberg and Tomy Nguyen will be presenting on our research with non-digital math games. Highly recommended!

Image that says I am presenting at CMC South, designing from the margins UDL + Math. Rachel Lambert, Saturday November 9 8:30 – 10:00 at the CMC South Conference.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

A beautiful day to vote! I am voting for Kamala Harris for many reasons. One is that Trump’s Project 2025 calls for abolishing the Dept of Education. That means destroying the systems that protect students with IEPs and 504 plans. And I will not stand for that. Happy voting!

Myself in a Harris Walz baseball cap, holding an election ballet and about to put it into a ballot box.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Puppy and me dropping off get out the vote postcards to moms in swing states. Please vote. #DontTakeDemocracyForGranted

Puppy and a person’s feet next to a post office box

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

My pile of books to prepare for my session Monday morning at NCSM (Evaluating Research Evidence in Mathematics; beyond the binary of explicit vs inquiry.) Some of these I love, others frustrated me . . .#NCSM24 #NCTM24

Image of pile of books including what works may not work, the future of teaching, visible learning, handbook of the cultural foundations of learning, how we learn, how learning happens, the ABCs of how we learn

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I will be busy at the upcoming NCSM (conference for math ed leaders) and NCTM (for math teachers), with some research presentations thrown in for good measure. Come meet my amazing doctoral students/colleagues! #NCSM24 #NCTM24 #ITeachMath #UDLMath #DeleteDeficitThinking

Rachel Lambert’s Talks at NCSM NCTM Chicago 2024
NCSM Presentation

Talk: Evaluating Research Evidence in Mathematics; Beyond the Binary of Explicit vs. Inquiry
Monday, September 23 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Waldorf, Floor 3

NCTM Presentations
Workshop: Real Games, Not "Worksheets Pretending to Be Games": Designing Math Intervention for Joy
with Tomy Nguyen and Jennifer Goldberg
Interactive workshop (NCTM Research Conference)
Wednesday, 9/25: 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
McCormick Place Room: S401 BC

Research Poster Session: Embedded Professional Development for Paraprofessionals Within Small-Group Mathematics Interventions
With Avery McNiff
NCTM research Poster Session
Thursday, 9/26: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Poster Session McCormick Place

Talk: The Magic is in the Margins: UDL Math
Thursday, 9/26: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Lakeside Center Room: E354B

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

So excited for my first session at the Oregon Educator Summit #ALK-8 Nick Johnson and the brilliance of children's counting!

Slide saying the brilliance of children's counting Nick Johnson San Diego State

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

#ITeachMath 25% off and free shipping with code RAVEN25 at us.corwin.com/books/rethin...

Holding up my book Rethinking Disability and Mathematics

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Actual image of me waiting for my book to be delivered. Sad sad author, perfectly fine dog. Those who backordered it might get it before me! #RethinkingDisability+Math #UDLMath #ITeachMath us.corwin.com/books/rethin...

Image of white woman with blonde hair sitting on a stoop looking sad, holding an adorable black dog.

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

I had a wonderful time at my first California Math Council- Central (#CMCCentral2024). They gave all the presenters these lovely superhero outfits. I think I was the only one to wear it during my entire presentation! I respect that kind of creativity, CMC Central! #UDLMath ♾️

Rachel Lambert, white woman with medium blonde hair, smiling while wearing a pink cape and mask. Behind her is a slide that says UDL Math

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

For my book that is out soon, I asked my doc student Avery McNiff to draw comics based on research photos in classrooms with kids and teachers, so that we could show expression and action, but keep identities private. I absolutely love them. I am working on my website and just enjoying her work!

A line drawing of two children on the floor, with a long line of connecting cubes between them, created with alternating groups of 5.

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