k8nowak.bsky.social
Slinging bits at Brilliant.org;
Teaching pre- and early-service teachers;
Formerly teaching high school
& making IM K-12 Math at illustrativemathematics.org;
I swear, my human brain writes with semicolons and em dashes.
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I agree this is kinda weird. It feels about 10 years too late. My *guess* (with no knowledge of what actually happened) is they were feeling pressure from HQIM advocates to advise teachers to just use them and pressure from OER advocates to say that OER is great, and this is the result.
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Part of Brilliant’s Vectors course functions like this. (I wrote it) But probably not the quantity of reps you are thinking of.
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Dear Buffalo News, hi! I’m a subscriber.
Every time I see a bluesky post from you, I read the same thing 3 times. (Post text, headline, blurb.) It’s annoying and I assume not your intention! Just letting you know.
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Do you want people to jump in and try to be helpful or hush?
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That reminds me "My mom keeps the bags in the garage" is a reliable test of whether you're from Rochester, Buffalo, or neither.
She's not a fan of wings 😂 A cool thing is our resettled-SW-Asian population supports two hyperspecific grocery stores. So she has no trouble finding what she does like.
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You have some good stuff in there! Maybe a copy of Set, the book '5 Fabulous Activities for Your Math Circle', the Math Games with Bad Drawings kit (with the mini-whiteboards and book explaining like 30 games).
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we need to hire the same PR folks who rehabilitated kale and cottage cheese
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ooh, thank you for posting this. I loved Babel. Can't wait.
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I cannot even with this chatbot bullshit. I cannot believe anyone is taking any of it seriously. I am truly truly incredulous at this point.
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I didn't mean to suggest it was good or bad or removing them is good or bad, just that history is happening.
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Wrote a whole whitepaper on this! (It's not exactly answering your call, but a healthy subset of the citations are likely helpful.) drive.google.com/file/d/1XU4n...
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We're living through the end of the Accountability Era.
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I bet it could produce decent latex code, if that's a workflow that could work for you.
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I'm so sorry. I hate it here.
Is there anyone it might help to yell at?
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A 'this is good enough' brain is also a blessing and a curse! 😂
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It's good enough for my purposes! (Which is for internal use showing 'this is the problem I want to ask', not for publishing. Thank goodness for visual designers.) Fractions is the showstopper. People who think in ints and floats don't get it. I'm curious if you have a different favorite tool?
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Yes to all this and I want to advocate for adding "can't do math" to your list.
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I also like "arrange 6 toothpicks to make 4 equilateral triangles." If you don't mind being kind of a stinker.
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This is my go-to "we're bored at a restaurant waiting for our food" puzzle.
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Hi Annie! I wonder if there's a way to engineer a conversation that gets them to be the ones to suggest "We should try incorporating more instruction for conceptual understanding," and then you can bring up dividing by a fraction as a candidate?
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I can't argue with that logic. I need change too. Where are the kids getting wild hair dye these days.
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oh nooooooo
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I might tag MP.6 in here too (express numerical answers with a degree of precision appropriate for the problem context) -- that's not quite specific enough to capture the 'must round up' thing (I'm with David that it calls for a ceiling function if you want to get algorithmic and notationy with it).
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Ooooh I found a baaaaaad solving proportions guided notes where I think the butterfly has eyeballs and antennae.
Just the one class to help out an overextended department. But really enjoying it.
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I am glad I found something productive to do with my math-activity-related "you're doing it wrong" energy.
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Core Plus used to be good (if lots of reading), not sure how its post-CCSS/post-acquired version is. OUR's high school math is not IM, afaik it's also problem-based. CME Project is great (but maybe out of print)? Also the Key Press Discovering [Topic] series (also maybe out of print).
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The problem with the efforts I've seen is that the catalog is always for a particular purpose, which is something other than 'a map of how all the knowledge is connected.' (Instead it's usually more like 'a list of skills that can be assessed by a computer'.)
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All the outputs I've looked at are also trash!
One thing is there are people working on this problem: "It doesn’t know how the subject matter to be taught hangs together in a deeply interconnected web of knowledge."
I have medium hopes that a solution to this will help a bit, when it exists.
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they made Murderbot a boy? how disappointing.
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probably rocking more of a sleep agenda today, AMIRITE?
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That conversation represents more emotional maturity than most cabinet meetings. You're raising leaders here.