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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It really is wild that the government pays people more to kidnap kids than to educate them

Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Guess what? I get to share a #MentalMathMonday problem related to my favorite math pop culture trivia. What's the largest prime number referenced in a pop song lyric?

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

20 years ago I wasn't able to attend the California Math Council conference at Asilomar because I was in and out of the hospital with meningitis. Today, I go for my 20th straight year, and 22nd overall in 24 years of teaching. #mtbos #iteachmath

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

You know how with logarithms, the logarithm is the exponent, the base of the logarithm is the base of the exponent, and the argument of the logarithm is the...other thing. (Yes, power, but it's clunky). A student proposed we call it the logarithmain't and I couldn't love it more! #iteachmath #MTBoS

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Yesterday, a student asked why natural logarithms are abbreviated on instead of nl and I realized I didn't ever wonder about that. Turns out the abbreviation is newer than I thought (maybe 1893 by a Berkeley professor Strangham, maybe a bit earlier, but not Euler or Napier). Fascinating!

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

List of products my students are "manufacturing" for their rational functions profit margin business model project: -cowboy boots & hats -lip gloss -churros -biomedical implants -performance racing tires -produce stickers -vitamin supplements -mint chocolate bars -wigs for cats -pajamas -footballs

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs

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Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · 08/11/2024

Don't Obey In Advance A call for us to make resistance to the new normal a way of life. Here's what I'll start doing. Join us: thejosevilson.com/dont-obey-in...

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Don't Obey In Advance | The Jose Vilson

Last week, I hopped off a bus and voted early. It was quick, convenient, and came with two stickers: one for me and one for ... Read More

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I haven't uninstalled Xitter yet, or deactivated, since there are people I'm only connected with there, but the time has come to focus here. (The constant notifications about new followers was the final catalyst.) Glad to be here to talk math, math education, and disruption and reform. #iteachmath

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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

presented at #NCTMCHI24 "Women of the 1939 Putnam: Leveraging Technology for Student Research & Mathematical Engagement" images: 1) me with session posting 2) me at lectern, slide on screen 3) close up of badge with SPEAKER flair 4) me standing with giant NCTM letters 🔗 www.tinyurl.com/Putnam1939

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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

#nctmchi24 NCSM TODOS 2016 joint statement. Action items pp 4-5. What are you doing? What do you want to try? www.todos-math.org/assets/docs2...

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

#mtbos #iteachmath Anyone have a 45 minute final exam, and how do you even do that? I have a precalc cumulative final because I really want to measure learners' fluency after a pretty difficult year. We were told the final exam period in 2 weeks changed from 75 minutes to 45 minutes and I'm stuck.

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

What happens when two math teachers chaperone a school dance and find a whiteboard marker and a table to write on? #mtbos #iteachmath

Example of Cramer's Rule (a method of solving a system of equations using matrices) drawn on a table with whiteboard markers.

Detail of the first picture of Cramer's Rule example

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Last week, #NCTM in DC. This weekend, #CMC-South in Palm Springs. 4 days of sub plans on 2 weeks means 4 days of not much math learning in my classroom (so hard to find subs so we have teachers sub during planning periods), but hopefully worth the rejuvenation for me.

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Landed in DC, but thanks to United Airlines' delays, too late to join the California contingent meeting with Senator Padilla. So frustrating.

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imperfect unfinished @chaseorton.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

I’m really enjoying making the audio companion to my book The Imperfect and Unfinished Math Teacher. It’s free and I’d love for you to join the journey. #ImperfectUnfinished #mtbos #iteachmath youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The audio companion to "The #ImperfectUnfinished Math Teacher."

This series of videos is an audio companion to my book The Imperfect and Unfinished Math Teacher: A Journey to Reclaim Our Professional Growth. Sign up at ch...

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

On day 8 of the horrors experienced in Israel and Palestine, I think of Muriel Rukeyser's "Poem". Oversaturated with information and emotion, making processing and reflecting and finding my own peace hard.

Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
BY MURIEL RUKEYSER
I lived in the first century of world wars.
Most mornings I would be more or less insane,
The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories,
The news would pour out of various devices
Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen.
I would call my friends on other devices;
They would be more or less mad for similar reasons.
Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.
In the day I would be reminded of those men and women,
Brave, setting up signals across vast distances,
Considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.
As the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened,
We would try to imagine them, try to find each other,
To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile
Waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other,
Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means
To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves,
To let go the mea

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Ahh, Monday after Family Student Teacher Conferences week. Newfound motivation for many, and hopefully it will last long enough for learners to see intrinsic value in their learning.

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

I've always had concerns around the College Board and the time pressures (among other issues) of the SAT. I wonder if making improvements to the big standardized test in high school could bleed into best practices in school. ♾️ #iteachmath #mtbos www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/o...

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Opinion | The SATs Will Be Different Next Year, and That Could Be a Game-Changer

Exams that test speed favor the fastest sprinters, but life is a marathon.

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Ethan Weker (he/him) @mathmanethan.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Migrated from the Xitter app, and glad to be here. Hoping this will be a place for connection and collaboration.

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