Tag: twitter

  • Comparing the #MTBoS & #ITeachMath hashtags

    Jennifer Fairbanks has been promoting the #MTBoS2020 hashtag, where you create a blog post on the 20th of each month this year. As my contribution for this first month, I thought I would continue my look at how hashtags are used on Twitter by the math community. My last post on hashtags looked at the…

  • Math hashtags on Twitter

    Back in November, Judy Larsen posted this tweet about math hashtags. Judy’s question got me thinking about all the math hashtags that really are used on Twitter. What are they? To answer this question, I downloaded the #MTBoS and #ITeachMath hashtags using NodeXL software, and went through all the hashtags mentioned in those data sets.…

  • Writing my methods section: a mixed method look at TMC17 part 2

    On to the qualitative analysis. (For the quantitative, see previous post) In the #mtbos, we talk of ourselves as a ‘community.’ We talk of the community of TMC, and a community of mathematics educators. The problem, then, is that there is not a clear definition of the ‘community.’ Anyone who says they are a member…

  • Writing my methods section: a mixed method look at TMC17 part 1

    I have been buried this semester with work, teaching two full sections of an education theory class, doing observations of our preservice teachers, and also writing my proposal for my dissertation.  via Lets say the first two items in that list got far more priority during the first half of the semester, and I had…

  • TMC17 Speaker Proposals

    We are starting to gear up for TMC17, which will be at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School  in Atlanta, GA (map is here) from July 27-30, 2017. We are looking forward to a great event! Part of what makes TMC special is the wonderful presentations we have from math teachers who are facing the same challenges that we all…

  • NYT – You blew it

    In my Feedly this morning popped up the article by Larry Ferlazzo called, “Disappointing NY Times Article On Teachers & ‘A Sharing Economy’.” Okay, let me be more blunt. I am not disappointed in the NYT, I am frustrated and a little ticked off. It stems from this article in the NYT: A Sharing Economy…

  • First month out of the classroom-A reflection

    I have to be honest, I started, stopped, deleted, restarted, deleted and started this post again repeatedly over the last few weeks. Why? Well one reason is my computer died in the middle of a post, and it sat for a week while I was getting it repaired. Whatever. Lame excuse. Another reason is that…

  • AP Stats projects

    Wow, it has been a while since I posted anything, and I need to share a ton of things I have done. I predict that I will post a lot in the next several weeks. The school year is winding down, but my learners are ramping up. Grad school is down for the summer (with…

  • Math organizations & the vacuum of leadership

    On this bright,cheery Veteran’s day I took some time to clean up my reader, delete a bunch of feeds that I don’t read any more, organize the math teacher and other teacher feeds a bit and catch up on a couple of posts that I saved but didn’t have a chance to read yet. Be…

  • I Have, Who Has in Stats; Speed dating in Alg2

      Today was mostly successful for my learners! Yay. I am behind in the book keeping / grading department so I won’t talk about that much. This is always my downfall, and it is so easy to have a conflict of interest between grading effectively and timely, and time spent producing interesting fun lessons that…