El Profe Lowe
@elprofelowe.bsky.social
Educator and Coach
IB Maths, AP Mathematics, #NumWorks, really anything maths related
as well as ⚽️🎽🏕🏟🚜🧳📻📸🇺🇸🇲🇽
and all that implies
IB Maths, AP Mathematics, #NumWorks, really anything maths related
as well as ⚽️🎽🏕🏟🚜🧳📻📸🇺🇸🇲🇽
and all that implies
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Headline of the year www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Headline of the year www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I wrote about a math teaching app.
pershmail.substack.com/p/math-acade...
pershmail.substack.com/p/math-acade...
February 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I wrote about a math teaching app.
pershmail.substack.com/p/math-acade...
pershmail.substack.com/p/math-acade...
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It's go time! What's missing?
#FCDallas Roster Build 2025 – start of camp check in 3rddegree.net/fcd-roster-b...
#FCDallas Roster Build 2025 – start of camp check in 3rddegree.net/fcd-roster-b...
FCD Roster Build 2025 - start of camp check in - 3rd Degree
With FC Dallas spring camp starting today, it's time to check in on the state of the roster build for 2025.
3rddegree.net
January 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It's go time! What's missing?
#FCDallas Roster Build 2025 – start of camp check in 3rddegree.net/fcd-roster-b...
#FCDallas Roster Build 2025 – start of camp check in 3rddegree.net/fcd-roster-b...
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I saw @teakayb.bsky.social say you can include a link as a ‘link card’ without keeping the URL in your message text, so I’m trying it out.
Exciting new maths of 2024
Over at the Finite Group, members (including me and Katie) have been discussing what in maths news has excited us this year. Here’s a summary. Brayden Casella and fellow authors claimed that …
aperiodical.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
I saw @teakayb.bsky.social say you can include a link as a ‘link card’ without keeping the URL in your message text, so I’m trying it out.
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#mathstoday G2 has been an interesting question to grade.
December 15, 2024 at 6:02 PM
#mathstoday G2 has been an interesting question to grade.
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At TexasXI on Substack: I wrote about what the latest rumblings out of Toyota Stadium might be telling us about FC Dallas
texasxi.substack.com/p/at-fc-dall...
texasxi.substack.com/p/at-fc-dall...
December 14, 2024 at 3:15 PM
At TexasXI on Substack: I wrote about what the latest rumblings out of Toyota Stadium might be telling us about FC Dallas
texasxi.substack.com/p/at-fc-dall...
texasxi.substack.com/p/at-fc-dall...
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Graph Theory 101
This thread is a delightful intro to graph theory ... and mathematics in general.
This thread is a delightful intro to graph theory ... and mathematics in general.
December 12, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Graph Theory 101
This thread is a delightful intro to graph theory ... and mathematics in general.
This thread is a delightful intro to graph theory ... and mathematics in general.
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i managed to sneak this into a problem set that i wrote last year:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
... will probably give out this or something similar in the spring!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
... will probably give out this or something similar in the spring!
[AA2T] Problem Set 4: Exponential Challenge! [23-24]
Name: ________________________ Problem 1. Recall that complex numbers are numbers of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers, and i is defined by i2 = -1. [Sometimes, people write: “i = √-1” ...
docs.google.com
December 8, 2024 at 6:13 AM
i managed to sneak this into a problem set that i wrote last year:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
... will probably give out this or something similar in the spring!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
... will probably give out this or something similar in the spring!
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I once knew a bit about Fourier Analysis, but now I teach #ALevelMaths and make videos about that sort of material. So I've made a video about probably the simplest example of Fourier analysis, vibrating strings, as enrichment for students (and their teachers!)
youtu.be/sa3f2iwKxM0
youtu.be/sa3f2iwKxM0
Vibrating Stings
YouTube video by Jim Simons
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:13 PM
I once knew a bit about Fourier Analysis, but now I teach #ALevelMaths and make videos about that sort of material. So I've made a video about probably the simplest example of Fourier analysis, vibrating strings, as enrichment for students (and their teachers!)
youtu.be/sa3f2iwKxM0
youtu.be/sa3f2iwKxM0
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Long term I think unis will find a way to combat LLM use, if nothing else to preserve their societal role as the official designator of "smartness" to save companies the trouble of developing a hiring procedure
But in the meantime we'll see a couple of cohorts absolutely determined to learn nothing
But in the meantime we'll see a couple of cohorts absolutely determined to learn nothing
November 30, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Long term I think unis will find a way to combat LLM use, if nothing else to preserve their societal role as the official designator of "smartness" to save companies the trouble of developing a hiring procedure
But in the meantime we'll see a couple of cohorts absolutely determined to learn nothing
But in the meantime we'll see a couple of cohorts absolutely determined to learn nothing
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They don't even know the difference between "to" and "too" or "effect" and "affect" but they want to push a few buttons and spit out a paper. FOR WHAT?! The purpose of SCHOOL is to LEARN, not appease a teacher for a meaningless grade.
Repeat after me, kids: "AI doesn't think for you!"
#EduSky
Repeat after me, kids: "AI doesn't think for you!"
#EduSky
Students who haven’t mastered foundational writing skills shouldn’t be using AI.
November 30, 2024 at 1:23 AM
They don't even know the difference between "to" and "too" or "effect" and "affect" but they want to push a few buttons and spit out a paper. FOR WHAT?! The purpose of SCHOOL is to LEARN, not appease a teacher for a meaningless grade.
Repeat after me, kids: "AI doesn't think for you!"
#EduSky
Repeat after me, kids: "AI doesn't think for you!"
#EduSky
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November 25, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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A menu of integration at the start of #MathsToday for Y13.
Classify by technique. Lots of good discussions.
#ALevelMaths
Classify by technique. Lots of good discussions.
#ALevelMaths
November 25, 2024 at 1:46 PM
A menu of integration at the start of #MathsToday for Y13.
Classify by technique. Lots of good discussions.
#ALevelMaths
Classify by technique. Lots of good discussions.
#ALevelMaths
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Ya know who had an outstanding half?
Tanner.
33/34 passing including this one touch, perfectly paced ball to Weston..and then the sweet dummy. All half he knew when to slow down and when to go. He’s so good.
Tanner.
33/34 passing including this one touch, perfectly paced ball to Weston..and then the sweet dummy. All half he knew when to slow down and when to go. He’s so good.
second assist on the night for Weston McKennie (unless it's ultimately ruled an OG) #USMNT
November 19, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Ya know who had an outstanding half?
Tanner.
33/34 passing including this one touch, perfectly paced ball to Weston..and then the sweet dummy. All half he knew when to slow down and when to go. He’s so good.
Tanner.
33/34 passing including this one touch, perfectly paced ball to Weston..and then the sweet dummy. All half he knew when to slow down and when to go. He’s so good.
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#mathstoday surprisingly challenging for my #calculus students to find this volume.
November 19, 2024 at 12:40 AM
#mathstoday surprisingly challenging for my #calculus students to find this volume.
This type of feedback is what we hope we can inspire.
Guide students in understanding maths... not simply doing maths.
Set up a foundation, provide structures and framework to do more things more independently yet be present to help along where needed.
Much like riding a bicycle.
Guide students in understanding maths... not simply doing maths.
Set up a foundation, provide structures and framework to do more things more independently yet be present to help along where needed.
Much like riding a bicycle.
November 18, 2024 at 3:48 PM
This type of feedback is what we hope we can inspire.
Guide students in understanding maths... not simply doing maths.
Set up a foundation, provide structures and framework to do more things more independently yet be present to help along where needed.
Much like riding a bicycle.
Guide students in understanding maths... not simply doing maths.
Set up a foundation, provide structures and framework to do more things more independently yet be present to help along where needed.
Much like riding a bicycle.
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A fascinating read about the fate of the work of a mind on the edge (from my Chinese military spy phone). I think he wouldn't approve of Huawei trying to use his research but perhaps there's no way to stop them. I wonder if there will be anything exploitable.
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
‘He was in mystic delirium’: was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman?
In isolation, Alexander Grothendieck seemed to have lost touch with reality, but some say his metaphysical theories could contain wonders
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2024 at 6:17 PM
A fascinating read about the fate of the work of a mind on the edge (from my Chinese military spy phone). I think he wouldn't approve of Huawei trying to use his research but perhaps there's no way to stop them. I wonder if there will be anything exploitable.
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...
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Took me way too long to read Jim Propp's latest, a beauty about order of operations and algebra. mathenchant.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/m...
Math’s Mutable Rules
John McWhorter, one of my favorite public intellectuals, writes (in his recent essay “Lets chill out about apostrophes”), “Writing does not entail immutable rules in the way that mathematics does.” I ...
mathenchant.wordpress.com
June 25, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Took me way too long to read Jim Propp's latest, a beauty about order of operations and algebra. mathenchant.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/m...
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Today on Grading for Growth: Standards or Specifications? It's *not* as big a choice as you might have heard... but it *is* an important choice for all alternative graders. Yes, even "ungraders".
Standards or specifications?
A fundamental choice in alternative grading maybe isn't quite so fundamental
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June 3, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Today on Grading for Growth: Standards or Specifications? It's *not* as big a choice as you might have heard... but it *is* an important choice for all alternative graders. Yes, even "ungraders".
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This was the first instructions to get rid of inaccurate AI nonsense on Google searches that worked for me! Thank you @maggieastor.bsky.social and whoever made this!
Just used the instructions at tenbluelinks.org to make Google Web — the de-shittified version without AI and "people also searched for" and yadda yadda — my default. Saw the suggestion in a post that I can't find anymore and I'm paying it forward. Do it and pass it along!
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.
futurism.com
May 26, 2024 at 3:24 AM
This was the first instructions to get rid of inaccurate AI nonsense on Google searches that worked for me! Thank you @maggieastor.bsky.social and whoever made this!
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Unapologetically excited by this abstract notebook. Perfect for maths doodles! 😍
March 22, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Unapologetically excited by this abstract notebook. Perfect for maths doodles! 😍