Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If only you’d sent your child to “a “no excuses” charter school.” Then they “would have received a solid education” and the story would be about “the effectiveness and impact coherent curriculum, strict discipline, effective teacher training, and high expectations have on student success…” 100
Reposted by Ralph PantozziCarl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If anybody is curious- it's 95% student centric. Based entirely on the idea of a central angle (in degrees) creating an arc length on the circumference of a unit circle (i later break it to them that these are radians), then adding in the coordinate of that point drive.google.com/drive/folder...drive.google.comIntro to Unit Circle - Google Drive 141
Reposted by Ralph PantozziErin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Honestly, I think it's a fundamentally evangelical belief that people's hearts will be transformed when they hear the Good News of this for-profit test 0121
Reposted by Ralph PantozziRalph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Homework as a filter for privilege. 02512
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Explore two sets of ready-to-use classroom materials featuring selected TIMSS mathematics tasks and practical teaching guidance for Grades 3–6 and Grades 6–10. #iTeachMath www.iea.nl/publications...iea.nlVolume 4: DIY Classroom Materials | IEA.nl 020
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Wondering why the house in the neighborhood is decorated for Halloween in August 000
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Persist in the face of arbitrary insults. 010
Reposted by Ralph PantozziAmanda Austin @draustinmaths.com · 02/09/2026It's back to school this week for many, so this is your annual reminder about draustinmaths.com. There are now over 1200 free maths resources, including over 100 resources for A-level Maths and Further Maths. And when you've exhausted all of those, there are a few paid-for resources too!draustinmaths.comMaths Teaching Resources | Dr Austin MathsDr Austin Maths is a free-to-use Maths teaching resources website, focussing on quality resources for KS4 IGCSE and GCSE Maths. 34118
Reposted by Ralph PantozziDesmos Studio @desmos.com · 31/08/2026"No, I want two [in a Desmos notebook]." Get started at desmos.com/notebook. #mathsky #iteachmath 083
Reposted by Ralph Pantozzisocraticme.bsky.social @socraticme.bsky.social · 01/09/2026See also, every commentary on education that has college profs (male coded; distant from the situation) shitting all over k-12 teachers, especially k-5 teachers (female coded; actually present with the situation) and being considered experts correcting those dumb, if well-intentioned. women. 041
Reposted by Ralph PantozziLarry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Five Questions You Should Ask Before Believing the ‘Science of Math’ www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...edweek.orgThe Five Questions You Should Ask Before Believing the ‘Science of Math’ (Opinion)Here’s why we should be wary of people claiming to have found the next ‘science of reading.’ 033
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“an ideological errand-running program with no accountability paying for the wealthiest families in the state of Iowa to send their kids to the private schools they were going to send them to anyway” 021
Reposted by Ralph Pantozzic0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Carl Sagan worked for a year with a diverse team to assemble the Golden Record that accompanied Voyager 1 & 2, both of which have now left the solar system. But how would an alien civilization play a golden record & how could a phonograph record contain sound AND image data? Let's talk about it. 410523
Reposted by Ralph PantozziMiddleWeb @middleweb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026NEW: A Great Team Up: ELA and Science Inquiry An interdisciplinary unit blends science inquiry & ELA skills to help middle schoolers make sense of news about extreme weather & climate change. #edusky #teachersky #science #ELA @ncte.org @ascdofficial.bsky.social www.middleweb.com/54174/joinin...middleweb.comBlending ELA and Science Inquiry to Explore Climate ChangeAn interdisciplinary unit blends science inquiry and ELA skill sets to help middle schoolers make sense of the news about extreme weather and climate change. 011
Reposted by Ralph PantozziNPR @npr.org · 31/08/2026After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned. n.pr/4i6dLMjn.prTrump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau reportAfter the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned. 17257106
Reposted by Ralph PantozziNathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026*New* Mathematician of the Week Posters Here's something I've been working on over the summer. A growing set of posters of mathematicians doing cool things with maths. Each comes in black/white or colour, with a quote and a link to read more. Check them out at: interwovenmaths.com/mathematicians 57629
Reposted by Ralph PantozziNick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026My first Substack post 👇 The Science of Selling: "While American schools face decades of compounding crises and inequities, ‘The Practice Project’ offers privatized solutions to systemic problems that any school leader can ‘add to cart’ and solve with a subscription."covingtonedu.substack.comThe Science of SellingAEI’s new partnership brings researchED’s product line stateside 2139
Reposted by Ralph PantozziChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026I don't want to be the last of my kind -- not one of the last humans, as we face wipeout by ecological catastrophe. I also don't want to be among the last of the American particle cosmologists, even as funding for our field collapses and support at national labs disappears. So I wrote this book.newscientist.com'Thinking about the edges of space-time can help build a better world' | New ScientistChanda Prescod-Weinstein, New Scientist columnist and author of the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, The Edge of Space-Time, on why the big questions in physics matter so much 0469
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“I believe in strong routines and clear boundaries for assertive behaviour management; I’m committed to the idea of setting high expectations of students, making them work really hard and being generally extremely demanding!” 🤔 000
Reposted by Ralph PantozziEdutopia @edutopia.org · 31/08/2026“The evidence of success is not simply that everyone raised their hand and spoke,” writes education researcher Jane Shore. “It is that each learner contributed to a culture where they added to the learning of others and recognized how others added to theirs.”edutopia.orgRethinking Participation to Include More Student ContributionsWhen teachers look beyond who speaks up, they’re better able to help students build on one another’s thinking. 0103
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 30/08/2026“Especially when they use toilet paper that doesn’t hold up” #iTeachMath 010
Reposted by Ralph PantozziJohn Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026#iteachmath I hadn't seen Kristin Smith's great substack till Bill McCallum linked it. kristensmith.substack.com/p/the-limits... via mathematicalmusings.substack.com/p/knowing-whatkristensmith.substack.comThe limits of the instructional hierarchyWhy teaching students to know how to do math isn't the same as teaching them to know why it works 011
Reposted by Ralph PantozziJohn Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Resources I gather for preservice secondary math teachers. docs.google.com/document/d/1... What or whom would you add? #iteachmathdocs.google.com229 F26 Course PageMath 229 F26 Course Page Luis Sacilloto, Study, 1974 This page, bit.ly/229-F26 Syllabus Desmos Graphing Calculator Desmos Scientific Graspable Math Resources Day 1 Resources Curricula Illustrativ... 232
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Your at-home #maths task: where is half of the scone? 240
Reposted by Ralph PantozziDr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Where is the evidence that it helps learning. 67923
Reposted by Ralph PantozziAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Once again, let me toast Matty Y, who tweeted once that K-12 schools could avoid the culture wars if they taught only math and reading. 23411
Reposted by Ralph PantozziAFT @aft.org · 20/08/2026"Higher education is not a luxury...It expands opportunity. It advances scientific discovery. It educates the people who build our economy. It prepares citizens to govern themselves. And it creates knowledge that no market can produce on its own." - @proftwolf.bsky.social @aaup.orginsidehighered.comWho Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)It wasn’t the AAUP. 15429
Reposted by Ralph PantozziNetwork for Public Education @network4pubed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The NPE/NPE Action Conference Schedule is out! We have incredible workshops & panels set up networkforpubliceduc... Come join us in Houston (Conroe, TX) this year. It is going to be an incredible conference. Here is more info networkforpubliceduc... 001
Reposted by Ralph PantozziStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Wow. Thanks for your interest in my thread on white male supremacy in academia masquerading as "concerned academics" (we know that framining from other far-right groups) We might also have to look at how they do this, incl. using the very tools that ensure integrity. bsky.app/profile/step... 215716
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"we have proposed a framework for thinking about conceptual knowledge that consolidates current notions into two specific types of conceptual knowledge: general principle knowledge and knowledge of principles underlying procedures. #iTeachMath 1/4 110
Reposted by Ralph PantozziChad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Whoa my book just got a glowing review in a math journal, and the best part is the reviewer’s main complaint: she kept wanting more math, then remembered it isn’t written for mathematicians. Correct! It’s for EVERYONE—no formulas, just stories of data fighting injustice. I hope you will read it. 414026
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We shall ask each of our applicants to take a so-called scholastic aptitude test, and shall make such use as may be of the results, promising for the present, and until experience gives greater wisdom, not to use the evidence thus gained against a boy whose credentials are otherwise 1/4 110
Reposted by Ralph PantozziDr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Jesse Singal as Principal Skinner. „Could it be that racism or transphobia explain why my opinion on this issue is so off?“ Pause. „No, it‘s academia worldwide having made a caricature of itself that is to blame.“ 1103
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I do believe that the future #iTeachMath will and should take different forms. 020
Reposted by Ralph PantozziJimmy Pai @paimath.bsky.social · 06/05/2026As with all things, there are infinitely many contributing conditions. It's clear that #MTBoS magic hasn't been recreated anywhere. Whether personal/global circumstances, career changes of many #MTBoS veterns, or subtle shifts in why people use social media. So: How do we make new magic? #iTeachMath 1113
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Is it difficult to remember how one was taught math? #iTeachMath 010
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 13/08/20261961 society is currently in the midst of a computer revolution. Business, industry, government & science find new uses daily Computer research scientists already exploring such esoteric uses as computer-composed music, chess-playing computers & a computer for the home. Uses defy the imagination. 010
Reposted by Ralph PantozziTrevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Very excited to share this conversation with @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social on his fantastic book "Teaching Meaning" and the importance of complicating the ways cognitive science is framed in education spaces online. trevoraleo.substack.com/p/christian-... #edusky #literacies #academicskytrevoraleo.substack.comChristian Moore-Anderson Talks Teaching Meaning and Cognitive ScienceEpisode Description 1136
Reposted by Ralph PantozziThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/08/2026While consumers object to data center development, utility and tech companies are sponsoring events for friendly regulators. A Post investigation revealed that Republican utility commissioners attended a secretive industry-funded retreat in Florida.washingtonpost.comHow utility and tech firms ‘educate’ regulators with big donations, secret retreatsWhile consumers object to high energy costs and data center development, utility and tech companies are sponsoring events for friendly regulators. 43022
Reposted by Ralph PantozziChristian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026But I do worry about losing the term "cognitive science" to an educational movement. It's why I continually refer to enactive cognitive science. Cogsci is a rich and wonderful field well beyond EduCognitivist ideas. 221
Reposted by Ralph PantozziChristian Moore-Anderson @cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026Absolutely. If schools are to look to cognitive science, they may as well look at the contemporary stuff, right? 121
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“This August, Iceland is experiencing a phenomenon like no other: a total solar eclipse. For everyone who might be missing out, we're launching a chance to see the next total solar eclipse in Iceland, taking place in 2196.static.klipy.comFry Futurama: Frozen in TimeALT: Fry Futurama: Frozen in Time 100
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I’d be happy with an agent that finds my missing socks. 220
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Apparently, the only story in the New York Times is “the war between moderate and the left in the Democratic Party” 🧐🙄 000
Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“My son loves Numberblocks. He just turned 5 and is entering kindergarten in the fall. He’s been asking for math workbooks but the ones I get are too young for him. Do you have any recs of workbooks/other shows/fun narrative books/anything else I should get him” #iTeachMath 111