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Andrew Knauft
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Working on it.
Maybe noise. Maybe music. www.desmos.com/3d/jhuvygmlvq
Bouncing Tone
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November 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Reposted by Andrew Knauft
Have you noticed a change of colors? 🍁

You can now define colors in the 3D calculator that depend directly on coordinates. 📝 Learn more in the Desmos Help Center: help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/art... #iteachmath #mathsky
October 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
3 months later, the beeps are gone but he smoothly counts to ten, then "twelve, fourteen, fourteen, fourteen, seven, nine".
M is too young to really count, but if you say "five, four, three, two, one," he does a really good job continuing the pattern with "beep, beep, beep!"
September 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I'm 6 minutes in and the founder of Alpha Schools has asserted (with no pushback) that "obviously, the teacher in front of the classroom was born out of the industrial revolution where we had to figure out how to really educate the masses".
"The idea of a teacher at the front of class teaching everybody in a time-based system doesn't work." That conclusion spurred MacKenzie to launch a new model, an AI-driven model.

Depending on your POV, it's a model to follow or a sign that we've gone too far. What do you think?
August 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Teachers, make your prediction before reading abstract: did students (Canadian, grades 4-7) do better with multiplying eg "1/2 × 1/2" or "1/2 of 1/2"?
August 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Reposted by Andrew Knauft
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Maybe your childhood inspiration ("This is who I want to be") was a movie star or an athlete. Mine was #Tom_Lehrer (1928-2025). I tracked down and studied the sheet music to his songs, memorized all of them (yes, including "The Elements"), and started writing & performing my own satiric ditties.
July 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
M is too young to really count, but if you say "five, four, three, two, one," he does a really good job continuing the pattern with "beep, beep, beep!"
May 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I just keep finding things I want to learn about.
April 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A rare miss from Desmos... It's actually my *innie* that has all the fun! teacher.desmos.com/collection/6...
March 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Long day but kiddo (13mo) just waited in the hallway for me to wave goodnight before walking into his nursery so 🤗
January 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The little one has a set of 7 stacking cups. He doesn't stack them yet, preferring to interfere with Dad's towers. If he always holds two of the cups (one in each hand), how many different towers can Dad make? (Cups are each a different size, and can only stack with the immediate next size.)
January 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is great: "By manipulating the figure, we can create multiple instances of the situation that still follow the original constraints we set for the figure."
There's an assumption there that the constraints of the software match the constraints we intended. I love poking at how that can fail!
January 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Took a photo walk this morning. Winter is here!
December 4, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Overheard: "Where did you come from? Did you leave something behind?"
December 3, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Did I take an extra-long lunch break today to go see #TheMarvels? Yes, I did. Was it fantastically enjoyable? Also yes. One of the best Marvel movies, certainly from whichever phase we're in now.
November 22, 2023 at 1:45 AM