What AI tools are you using to support curriculum and guided learning? Assessment? Do students still work problems by hand? Let me know.🩷🧡

Mine just finished. My son’s is this week. How’s everyone celebrating?

Hey teachers! Which topic excites you to teach?

When I think about things I find interesting in math, I keep circling back to 1. In some ways, it’s the simplest number—just one thing. And yet, 1 wears so many disguises. The invisible 1 trips students up all the time: in 3x + x, in x^1, in coefficients that are “there but not written.” When we simplify fractions, rationalize denominators, or even dividing by a complex number, we handle the problem by multiplying by one—just not the obvious one. We choose a form of 1 that changes everything while changing nothing I’m curious—what’s a concept like this for you? Something small or “obvious” that turns out to be doing a ton of hidden work in math?

Am I the only one that is a little bothered by inconsistent functions? When I click a button on the vending machine, one output is expected. There may be two inputs to get that Coca-cola…. But if I click the Coke button, that’s the only output I expect. So what’s happening with Samoas, folks? Depending on the bakery they use, I may get a Samoa, or I might get a Caramel Delite. That, my friends is NOT a function! Anyone else bothered by completely unimportant math-related minutia? Just me?