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HS Math Teacher, mom, lover of learning and teaching, always innovating. I teach geometry, calculus, and calculus 3.
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Please help my mug did a topology

#BoardGames I got this game in the early 90s. Still holds up 30+ years later. Clue Museum Caper.

Game on. desmos.com/art #iTeachMath #GameDev #MathSky 🧵 Why we loved these Art Expo game submissions 👇

Trying my hand at making a new type of puzzle for the blog. Here's a Pi Day Hidden Word Puzzle. mathequalslove.net/pi-day-hidde... #mtbos #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom #piday #mathsky #edusky

Anthony OR with a sweet #geogebra proof without words for the Law of Cosines www.geogebra.org/m/ngfga2xx

This is my favorite calculus 3 teaching tool of all time. Relative max, min, and a saddle. And retrievable tangent planes, aka post its. I can even draw on VVFs to talk about limits, paths, gradients. #iteachmath #edusky

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

Enjoy some math valentines I created on Canva! #iteachmath #EDUsky drive.google.com/file/d/13ucV...

Every calculus teacher during lessons about solids of revolution. #iteachmath

More work on Trig Ratios with Y12 this week in #MathsToday #AlevelMaths. Big focus on what should be positive/negative and lots of practice in quite a compact table which I always like!

I have one student this year who has become OBSESSED with hidato puzzles. I love seeing kids solving puzzles in their spare time instead of just staring at their phones. Here's a new set of penguin hidato puzzles! mathequalslove.net/penguin-hida... #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom #mathsky

Take a deep breath and enjoy positive news from around the world 🌍 🌱 (a thread) 1/3

Isaac Newton learned of Jean Bernoulli's "brachistochrone" problem #OTD in 1697. He solved it late that evening, showing that the curve of fastest descent between two points is given by a portion of a cycloid.

One of my students peels a clementine and it makes a perfect integral almost every time. Enjoy your day. #iteachmath

Groundhog Day is on the weekend this year, but I still made a few groundhog puzzles/activities just for fun. I'm most excited about the fact that I learned how to make nonogram puzzles! mathequalslove.net/category/hol... #edusky #puzzlingclassroom

Great news! The Oklahoma School for the Deaf is offering FREE self-paced classes for both ASL 101 and 102 this Spring. You don't have to live in OK or have any deaf/HoH people in your care/household to sign up. I took 101 and LOVED it. Super hyped to get to 102!

First! #MathSky #iteachmath

I have a drawer full of emails and notes from students. It's amazing how one small note can change the trajectory of a day.

If you have a professor/teacher who impacted you in a positive way, send them a short email and let them know and tell them what you’re doing these days. Teaching can be a thankless and exhausting job but one note can energize an educator for a year.

Can confirm.

In #MathsToday I wanted to check Y10's knowledge of Squares, Cubes and Roots, so used @draustinmaths.com "Decode The Joke" sheet to start with. A nice mix of things they should just remember and things they needed to work out.

Differential equation looky-likeys for Y13. Several were caught out by Q4! #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Contrapositives are for cowards. Behold.

Thought provoking from Ben Orlin mathwithbaddrawings.com/2025/01/20/t... AND sounds like it's leading into a peek into his classroom #iteachmath

This graph looks like a guy pissed off a wizard and got trapped in math.

Teacher supply nightmare right here.

I'm sorry why did no one tell me people are making entire synthesizer systems in *Desmos* of all things www.desmos.com/calculator/f...

I solved the Daily Calendar Puzzle…but for the wrong date. #RightSolutionWrongDate https://www.geogebra.org/m/dw8mfts6

We're creating equations of tangent planes to multivariate functions today. Post it notes! Stuck one to my forehead... Tangent plane. Stuck one to my kettle... Tangent plane to a paraboloid. I love stealing props during this class (calculus 3).

Another self-checking #googlesheet builds 24 different snowmen as students enter answers. All programmed for you - just add your own questions & (matchable) answers! #edusky #iteachmath #mtbos examples here: tiny.cc/snowmanexample & tiny.cc/snowmanexample2 template here: tiny.cc/snowmantemplate

Me: "Aargh! There's a hole in the pocket of my jeans." Son: "Aren't ripped jeans cool right now?" Me: "Maybe, but not when they're ripped on the inside." Son: "Aren't you a topologist?"

Here's a fun intersection between math puzzles and word puzzles for your Saturday puzzling enjoyment! If you plan on using with students, this is targeted for Algebra 2 and beyond due to the vocab used. mathequalslove.net/mathematics-... #mtbos #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom #mathsky #edusky

Random thought I had while prepping for return to school: Is there a number that’s closer to infinity than to zero?

LaTeX/Tikz challenge: Define commands \lune and \lense and then use them to make this season greetings: