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Mathematically Political... #ITeachMath #MTBoS
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Hey #iteachmath! When a parent makes a comment that "not everyone is good at math" to you address that statement? If so, how? TIA
April 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is so real. Uni teaching programs and school districts also love to drill equity, but they fail to address how inequitable student teaching is. I'm down to my last 18 dollars, waking up at 5:30 to work, and by the time I finish house chores and classes, it's 9pm. I'm supposed to make time to
For us it’s that no one can afford to student teach. Why take out loans if you’re going to make Pennies anyways
March 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A student expressed to me that they have been distancing from math because previous classes only taught them tricks and shortcuts... just so they could pass state standardized exams. Do math teachers feel like they are doing the students a favor by teaching this way??
March 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🤔 Challenge for #iteachmath teachers this week. 🤔

Make sure when you choose your "fun activities" for the week, that they are ALL related to math. There are plenty of things out there. Maybe we can share some of our mathy games and activities for this week.

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December 14, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.

She's fighting back.
Ohio teacher suspended for including four books with LGBTQ characters in her classroom library
Karen Cahall has been a teacher in the New Richmond School District in Ohio for 34 years.
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December 12, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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I’m sorry but 262 words is not a manifesto. It’s a statement. Maybe a communique. Not a manifesto.
December 11, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.
November 27, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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I always tell folks that teaching someone math is like telling them how to get from NYC to Chicago. Some kids take the shortest and fastest route and some kids take all the back roads. The kids who take the “back roads” make connections and see things others won’t.
November 26, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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as a trans woman, i would find this difficult to articulate except in that in a patriarchal binarized gendered society womanhood develops essentially as an outplacement from manhood, whose polar identity develops as a secondary characteristic; in this sense it contains all exclusions.
To cis folks who consider themselves sympathetic to the cause of trans liberation:

If you were asked "What makes a trans woman a woman?", or some less-respectful variant of that by a transphobe, would you be able to answer?

Repeating a shibboleth with no substantiation isn't working.
November 27, 2024 at 5:30 AM