#MathEdChat

2025-11-10

@SmartmanApps
Thanks for you insights.

I think the threading on my server means it's easier to view the whole thread directly at dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/11

#iTeachMath #Mathematic sEducation #MathEd #MathEdChat #MathsEd #MathsEdChat
#education #mathematics #math #didactics #pedagogy

2025-09-16

The first two episodes of MT Talk discuss articles from Mathematics Teaching 296 atm.org.uk/MT-Talk

Episode 1
Elizabeth Bridgett, Lisa Coe and Jay Timotheus compare and contrast Mike Askew's 1999 article, ‘Teaching numeracy: will we ever learn?’ from MT168 with Jane Hawkins' much more recent, 2025 article, ‘Why purposeful talk in mathematics lessons matters’ in MT296.

Also mentioned in this episode is the 1999 paper ‘Arbitrary and Necessary Part 1: A Way of Viewing the Mathematics Curriculum’, Dave Hewitt's first in a three-part series in For the Learning of Mathematics, as well as Mike Askew’s book, ‘Transforming Primary Mathematics’, published by Routledge in 2011.

Episode 2
Lisa Coe, Fin McLaughlin and Jay Timotheus talk about John Mason's 1987 article, ‘Only awareness is educable’ from MT120, alongside Tom Francome's 2025 article, ‘Everyone can think mathematically’ from MT296.

Fin recommended two books: ‘Thinking Mathematically’, by John Mason, Leone Burton and Kaye Stacey (Pearson, 1982, and 2010) and ‘Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing’, by John Mason (Routledge, 2001).

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/
open.spotify.com/show/3cJF2EXK

#podcast #ITeachMath #MathematicsEducation #MathEd #MathEdChat #MathsEd #MathsEdChat
#education #mathematics #math #didactics #pedagogy

2025-09-13

For people who like to explain maths:

Suppose you have a struggling student, and you need to explain why:

"Probability of one in five"

... is the same as ...

"Odds of one to four".

How would you do that?

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#MathsEd #MathsEdChat

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2024-12-30

Continuing the series of videos of #G4G15 :

Sabetta Matsumoto:
Bending Seams - How to Create Couture Curves

youtube.com/watch?v=vMa6RIi42L

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)
Please share!

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-12-23

I've been thinking about this for ages, but never had the time to craft the words around it.

People keep saying that "Maths should be fun" ... and I push back with "It should be engaging ... 'fun' is a different thing.

So @rakhichawla has posted pretty much exactly this, but better than I ever could.

I'm copying it here with permission.

Please read this, then as it says at the end ... let's have a deeper conversation about this ...

1/n

(PS: I'd love this to get boosted to get outside my bubble ... you're all amazing, but there will be other opinions, and other thoughts that could be helpful or valuable)

Hashtags: #MathEd #MathsEd #MathEdChat #MathsEdChat #MathChat #MathsChat #MTBoS #TMWYK

2024-12-14

Some time ago ... (A month!) ... there was a thread on Twitter that I think should be shared here. I've been trying to extract and post it semi-automatically, but Twitter just makes it damn near impossible.

So I'm copying it "by hand"

Here's a chart of the full conversation:

solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/185675

Here's the head of the conversation:

x.com/TweetingCynical/status/1


#MTBoS #TMWYK
#MathChat #MathsChat
#MathEd #MathEdChat
#MathsEd #MathsEdChat

I will occasionally update the chart of *this* conversation, and it will be here:

solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/Teach

Here is the content ...

2024-11-17
2024-11-15

Continuing the series of videos of #G4G15 :

Spandan Bandyopadhyay:
The Egg Sandwich Problem

youtube.com/watch?v=vLUBX3q38o

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-11-14

Continuing the series of videos of #G4G15 :

George Hart, Abraham Sharp and the "Sharpohedron"

youtube.com/watch?v=0K_0vMrZBj

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-11-14

Continuing the series of videos of #G4G15 :

Tanya Khovanova: My Favorite Math Jokes

youtube.com/watch?v=zNQLCR0yz2

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-11-13

We continue the series of videos of #G4G15 :

Robin Houston:
Polyhedra Whose Faces Meet at Right-Angles Except on One Edge

youtube.com/watch?v=eru0lAuqLz

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-11-10

Continuing the series of videos of #G4G15 :

Scott Vorthmann: The Virtual Fifty-Nine Icosahedra

youtube.com/watch?v=NP4PN1tgGv

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-10-30

We continue the series of videos of #G4G15 :

This is quite simply astonishing:

Bob Hearn:
The Magnetic Fifty-Nine Icosahedra

youtube.com/watch?v=pxsT-uavzu

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-10-29

We continue the series of videos of #G4G15 :

Greg Whitehead:
Nerd Sniped by the Hat Tile

youtube.com/watch?v=paYj4hEIsx

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-10-27

We continue the series of videos of #G4G15 :

Amina Buhler-Allen:
Hyperspace Heroes 1: Odd Bedfellows

youtube.com/watch?v=7Hc9cHwtcQ

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-10-26

Chaim Goodman-Strauss:
The Hat Aperiodic Monotile

youtube.com/watch?v=PZw2lFws5o

Video from #G4G15 ... there's some gorgeous stuff here.

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-10-23

Eric Bates: Passing the Spark

Why do some people seem so natural on camera, while the rest of us feel awkward and inarticulate? This talk delves into the art of speaking to a camera and sharing your skills online...

youtube.com/watch?v=RWgs7bcpcJ

From the playlist:

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/pl

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

2024-10-14

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