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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bluesky experiment is over for me. Catch me on Insta if you need me! ✌️

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Always nice to hear from you, Joce! I’m assuming you’ll be attending the parade? 🏒 🏆 🔵 ⚪️

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Dan Finkel @mathforlove.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is such an excellent video, in large part because Howie actually gives concrete examples of different versions. And guess what? We have different things that might be called Discovery Learning, and some seem like a huge waste of time, and others seem fantastic.

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Jimmy Pai @paimath.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As 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

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Fun questions. 1) I say yes. That connection organizes some sort of mathematical sense. 2) This is trickier to me. It definitely feels like “yes,” but the automaticity implied is causing me pause.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

How sharp are you? Take the new quiz: emo band OR cognitive bias

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I’m going to start “vibe-_____ing” everything. It’s March winter here, so we need all the vibes we can get!

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“vibe-coded” is an S-tier term.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Looks like 3 outlets? One each for: 5-4 5-3 4-3 PP. that just good coaching.

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Mary Bourassa @marybourassa.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Thanks to @jennalaib.bsky.social , @natbanting.bsky.social and others for the inspiration to do a fractions clothesline. My student were very engaged! #ITeachMath

$A clothesline strung across a classroom with fraction cards and pictures sitting upon it.$

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Jacqueline @cuddlefishj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@natbanting.bsky.social looking forward to your keynote at my school tomorrow!

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I don’t need a home stream. 😂 I get the game (and @desmos.com has to go get that bread), but it’s not as friendly for teachers who want to supplement their class with the activities. “Progress” get a big “womp womp” from me.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The multiple landing pages are a wild choice, but managed to find it. Students still being orphaned all over various landing pages.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Whatever this current interface is was not designed for teachers to supplement their student experience. It wants all Amplify or nothing. I miss the professionalism that Desmos enabled as a stand alone platform.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Also, kids just get lost in some Amplify dashboard with no option to enter code for activity. There’s probably a simple fix here…

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

So how do I find my dashboard of recent @desmos activities? Students seem to be sent every which way now that Amplify has added a layer of administration.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

My fav part here is “emphasis” on theory. The “testable” crew also operate on theoretical assumptions of how teaching and learning exist—they just leave them buried. Emphasizing the conditions of an experiment (and conclusion) feels important, no?

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Has anyone built a math practice app where every answer is 6, 7, or 67 yet?

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Maegan Giroux @maegangiroux.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Visual Patterns 🤝 Pattern Blocks I am currently OBSESSED, in a (mostly) healthy way, with @fawnnguyen.substack.com visual patterns and @mathforlove.bsky.social pattern blocks for kids to learn and create patterns. Ah-may-zing. Also, I am in LOVE with Mary Vail's Thinking Desks, they are phenomenal!

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DavidPetro314 @davidpetro314.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

[New Post] Ontario Math Links - My favourite #math related links from this week: ontariomath.blogspot.com/2025/09/math... links & help from @mrcorleymath.bsky.social @mathsweek.scot @darrenmacey.bsky.social @natbanting.bsky.social @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social &more #MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I think this is all sorted now! (That’s 5 hours of my Saturday I won’t get back 😂)

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Yeah… Something about hosting is screwy right now. Sorry about that; trying to contact tech support is… tedius. 🙄

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I wrote a new post yesterday: natbanting.com/play-with-yo... It’s about the benefits of teachers tinkering with the problems/prompts we offer students. (And, tangentially, about the benefits of conference spaces where we are given license to do so) #iteachmath

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Play with your Problems

I am a compulsive problem poser. When presented with a mathematical context, I have an incredible amount of difficulty leaving it alone. My teacher instinct is to push, prod, tinker, and/or alter i…

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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Play with your Problems

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

“Orange” is a 1-syllable word (Massive family argument occurring)

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Any old #bcedchat folks have a lead on a veteran math history teacher??

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Math Gnome @noamloyola.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

BC has a grade 11 math history course!! Have any BC math educators on here taught this course? If so, what was your experience?

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Yup Every influence is a sort of gambit. And kids understand the structure of lessons and units. So eventually they will “self-spoil” For this reason, I believe that the most authentic thinking occurs at the onset of a unit of study.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

In general, we are worried that what students do *fits* the current unit of study so we spend time “listening for” specific acts that fit instead of “listening with” student thinking in more open spaces. I get it. I do it. School math is packed and we need to get kids specific places.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Math class: “Here’s a task about a hallway of lockers that involves perfect squares” English class: “Here’s a book and, at the end, the hero dies” These are identical experiences imho I think math teachers feel an increased need to include more “spoilers” to justify openness in their classroom.

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

It’s true what they say. This is excellent. And I’m going to quote the end to give you a taste: “But personalized learning is the wrong ideal. … We shouldn’t be going all-in on kids learning on their own. We should be trying to figure out how to make whole-group learning even better.”

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This exhibit at the Tate Modern in London giving real “How Many?” vibes. @triangleman.bsky.social

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Oh. I haven’t. I’ve seen people link to it, but I’ve never checked it out. Something to consider tho!!

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I don’t know what “Substack” is. I have the blog alongside some other project files for folks (like #MenuMath and a some classroom resources from over the years) Also a sort of running CV.

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Mike Deutsch @mdeutschmtl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Re-sharing from Feb ‘24: @natbanting.bsky.social waxes poetic about the Math Twitter Blog-o-Sphere (RIP). Man, that was a heady scene. It felt like an open apprenticeship for those of us on the periphery. I love seeing so many good folks emerge from it. #mtbos natbanting.com/rip-bos-a-tr...

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RIP-BoS: A Tribute to the Math-Twitter Blog-O-Sphere

When I was a first year teacher, the teachers in my province went on strike for two days. It was on the first of those two days that I signed up for Twitter in order to follow public opinion on the…

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Lots of the stagnancy isn’t due to lack of ideas, it’s a busy young family. I never fathomed how much work raising littles is!! 😴

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Karen Campe @karencampe.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Looking forward to reading! Here's my latest, on the importance of our connections to each other (thank you for being in my group of math people!) karendcampe.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/f...

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Find Your (Math) People

Teaching is hard. The day-to-day cycle of planning, presenting, orchestrating, testing, and reflecting is continuous, and there’s always the uncertainty of how the students will show up (or not) to…

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I don’t think people read blog much anymore, but a week in a library has produced a few new ones for this school year. Some thoughts that have been ratting about in my head for a while.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The time crunch on feedback is the most difficult part of compressed courses. I find student feedback to polarize as the course compresses. (Taught 6 hours a day for 5 days vs 3 hour classes over 10 weeks)

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Here’s a thing about teaching post-secondary: After the course, you’ll get emails expressing how enjoyable the course was. You’ll also get the odd one saying they disliked you and the course. The former are sent immediately; the latter are sent after grades come out. Pay attention to both.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I feel like I did. Would have to check notes I left for myself. It was pre-pandemic and I cannot 100% confirm that those days even existed. I also was eyes deep in embodied cognition writing a thesis.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Read this in my “grad school” era. 🤯

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