Mathematics Teaching 296 now available online https://atm.org.uk/Mathematics-Teaching-Journal-Archive/177731

Design and cover photographs by me

Four free articles for non-members:

Everyone can think mathematically by Tom Francome
Tom Francome explores ways of developing the mathematical thinking of all students, including low attainers.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT296/02.pdf

Book review Learning with AI by Ian Benson
Ian Benson reviews 'Learning with AI' by Joan Monahan Watson published by Johns Hopkins University Press (296 pages, $24.95)
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT296/14.pdf

Book review Breaking images by Pete Wright
Pete Wright reviews ‘Breaking images: Iconoclastic analyses of mathematics and its education’, edited by Brian Greer, David Kollosche, and Ole Skovsmose.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT296/15.pdf

Ole Skovsmose—the man who put the critique in critical mathematics education by Peter Gates
Peter Gates has collated this obituary for Ole Skovmose.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT296/16.pdf

#MathematicsTeaching #iTeachMath #MathEd #MathsEd #Math #Mathematics #education #design #GraphicDesign #atm #MT #MT296 #photography

Happy New Year! Enjoy the January #ProblemSolving Calendar! Share your process here or on post.

Also: BONUS article-teaching strategies for success in #math class.

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#MTBoS #iTeachMath #ClassroomMath #RecreationalMath #MathEd #MathsEd

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/january-calendar-problems-3/

The solutions are posted for the December Calendar of Problems! If you've done some #ProblemSolving tell us your favorite solution methods here or in blog comments.
January Calendar coming soon!
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #ClassroomMath #RecreationalMath #MathEd #MathsEd

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2024/12/01/december-calendar-problems-3/

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

Fermat conjectured that for \(n\) a non-negative integer, all numbers of the form \(2^{2^n}+1\) are prime.

Was there ever a worse conjecture in maths than that?

#Maths #Math
#MathsEd #MathEd
#MathsChat #MathChat
#Fermat #Conjecture
#Primes #FermatPrimes

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:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1856750472826085652.svg

Here's the head of the conversation:

https://x.com/TweetingCynical/status/1856750459110986045

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

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

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/TeachingTellingTheTime.svg

Here is the content ...

For more problems, check out the whole calendar! Solutions coming soon, and December is around the corner.
{& feel free to subscribe by email so you don't miss any!}

#iTeachMath #MTBoS #ClassroomMath #RecreationalMath #MathEd #MathsEd

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2024/11/01/november-calendar-problems-2/

Don’t be a turkey, give thanks for the monthly #ProblemSolving calendar!
Here's one from this month...how many different *ways* can we show this result?
Comment below!
-->good for an all-ages #Math discussion at your gathering today 🦃🥧🍁🍽

#iTeachMath #MTBoS #RecreationalMath #ClassroomMath #MathEd #MathsEd

#mathsed It should be possible to solve this. Solution is-7/3. | can't see a way how Students could calculate this.

It's Maths Week England !!!!

https://mathsweekengland.co.uk/

#MWE2024 #MWE24 #MathsToday #MathsChat #MathsEd

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

Don't worry, #ProblemSolving isn't spooky! 🎃
The solutions are up for the October Calendar! November Calendar coming soon...
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #MathEd #MathsEd #ClassroomMath

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/october-calendar-problems-2/

The Back-To-School Tour of TI84 rolls on today with "Cool Calculus"
*This post also includes how to store a value for later calculations--great tip! (& not just for calc class).

#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #calculus #APcalc #TI84 @TICalculators #ClassroomMath #MathEd #MathsEd

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/cool-calculus/

I'm going to see the Art of the Brick #exhibition today!

I'm a bit of a #Lego fan, but it always reminds me of one of the years we (at Bletchley Park) won "Best Venue for #Mathematics #Learning" at the School Travel Awards. To my knowledge we won it every year it existed, and it disappeared as a category after three goes. Each time we won I looked up the runners-up to see what the competition were doing (in the spirit of "steal, steal, steal; but steal from the best"), but each time I never really discovered anything that I'd consider genuinely mathematical (so no wonder the category disappeared).

One year, Legoland Windsor were a runner-up and, as far as I could tell their 'mathematics' offer was using bricks as a disappointingly abstract prompt to practise memorisation of times tables.

We can do better than this in the #heritage sector - some already do - but we need to make engaging with mathematics a _normal_, everyday thing that #museums, #galleries, #archives and #libraries do, and not just through their formal learning programmes.

The maths provision in the formal learning programme at Bletchley Park was excellent, but there's no way we should have been such a standout winner in that category every time it ran.

I'm always excited to hear about maths being explored by museums, whether it's part of school trips or (and this is the dream) in its exhibitions.

Some relevant links:
- Art of the Brick: https://theartofthebrickexpo.com/london/
- School Travel Awards: https://www.schooltravelorganiser.com/school-travel-awards

#MuseumEd #GLAMEd #MathsEd

It's August, so it's time for school! Here is your back-to-school-tour of the #TI84, Check out explainer posts for all #math topics!

#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #ClassroomMath #MathEd #MathsEd

https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/a-back-to-school-tour-of-the-ti-84/

New blog post: "Keys For Success: Introduction to the TI-84"
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #ClassroomMath #MathEd #MathsEd
https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2024/08/18/keys-for-success/

@TeaKayB hi Tom, also try some of these hashtags to find more math teaching folks here.
#iTeachMath
#MTBoS
#ClassroomMath
#MathEd
#MathsEd
#MathsEdChat

Thanks to David Petro for the shout out... check out some great links for your math class this week or later on if school hasn't started yet.
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #ClassroomMath #MathEd #MathsEd

http://ontariomath.blogspot.com/2024/08/math-links-for-week-ending-aug-2.html?m=1

2nd semifinal in Big Internet Math-Off is ON!
Watch both video pitches & decide which is bigger AHA!
Vote for @Ayliean or Angela, & make it about the math(s) {& not about follower count!}
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #RecreationalMath #MathChat #MathEd #MathsEd #ClassroomMath

https://aperiodical.com/2024/07/the-big-internet-math-off-2024-semi-final-2/

Today is the last first-round match of #BigMathOff !!
Read some cool posts from @divbyzero & @Kit_Yates_Maths & votes!
Round 2 starts Wednesday!
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #ClassroomMath #RecreationalMath #MathEd #MathsEd

https://aperiodical.com/2024/07/the-big-internet-math-off-2024-round-1-match-8/

Another day, another Big Internet Math-Off match!
Fran Herr shares dancing planets (circle geometry meets modular arithmetic) vs. Tom Edgar who is trying to fit rational numbers into the Hilbert Hotel!
Vote & enjoy! #BigMathOff
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #ClassoomMath #RecreationalMath #MathEd #MathsEd

https://aperiodical.com/2024/07/the-big-internet-math-off-2024-round-1-match-7/