Ralph Pantozzi
@mathillustrated.bsky.social
(a personal account) MoMath Rosenthal Prize • #PAEMST • SciFri Educator • RutgersGSE • NCTM MAA Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics
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President Trump and White House leaders say American workers are winning because of his immigration crackdown.
But the data doesn’t back that up.
But the data doesn’t back that up.
Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it.
The idea that employment is surging for U.S.-born workers is routinely trumpeted by Trump officials. But economists say otherwise.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
President Trump and White House leaders say American workers are winning because of his immigration crackdown.
But the data doesn’t back that up.
But the data doesn’t back that up.
Develop class-wide social norms specific to math 🧵 #iTeachMath
For example, the norm of using mathematical representations to support your explanations is a subject-specific norm critical to discourse and work in mathematics
library.teachingworks.org/curriculum-r...
For example, the norm of using mathematical representations to support your explanations is a subject-specific norm critical to discourse and work in mathematics
library.teachingworks.org/curriculum-r...
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Develop class-wide social norms specific to math 🧵 #iTeachMath
For example, the norm of using mathematical representations to support your explanations is a subject-specific norm critical to discourse and work in mathematics
library.teachingworks.org/curriculum-r...
For example, the norm of using mathematical representations to support your explanations is a subject-specific norm critical to discourse and work in mathematics
library.teachingworks.org/curriculum-r...
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@audreywatters.bsky.social on AI: It's bad fucking news. It's bad for thinking. It's bad for learning. It's bad for teaching. It's bad for research. It's bad for knowledge. It's bad for justice. It’s bad for democracy. It's bad for humanity. #SpotOn 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/days-gone-by...
Days Gone By
What a terrible year. Good riddance to today being the very last of it.
Way back when I used to publish things on Hack Education, I was always proud of my end-of-year stories -- the series of article...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@audreywatters.bsky.social on AI: It's bad fucking news. It's bad for thinking. It's bad for learning. It's bad for teaching. It's bad for research. It's bad for knowledge. It's bad for justice. It’s bad for democracy. It's bad for humanity. #SpotOn 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/days-gone-by...
they have done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the White House. The scale and the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
they have done more to monetize the presidency than anyone who has ever occupied the White House. The scale and the scope of the presidential mercantilism has been breathtaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
Contrary to the idea that science is a set of static facts in a textbook created by dispassionate experts, it’s a human process. …Disagreements are common, knowledge is refined over time, and sometimes the protagonists become intemperate, annoyed, even jealous. wapo.st/4sghmKo
Feuding physicists and the bitter battle over the swirls in ‘The Starry Night’
A team of scientists sparked a heated debate over whether Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” depicts turbulence, a complex physical phenomenon.
wapo.st
December 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Contrary to the idea that science is a set of static facts in a textbook created by dispassionate experts, it’s a human process. …Disagreements are common, knowledge is refined over time, and sometimes the protagonists become intemperate, annoyed, even jealous. wapo.st/4sghmKo
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Seize the day academics! Now’s the time to show you care about the system you sit on top of—take a move out of the right wing playbook and make alliances with parents, teachers, family orgs, etc etc.
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Seize the day academics! Now’s the time to show you care about the system you sit on top of—take a move out of the right wing playbook and make alliances with parents, teachers, family orgs, etc etc.
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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One of the things that happened is that reformers + their allies shifted "HQIM" to include only materials produced by a corporate vendor.
They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.
They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.
I don't think HQIM is the answer.
You'll see this article posted a lot today. That's only because everyone should read it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
One of the things that happened is that reformers + their allies shifted "HQIM" to include only materials produced by a corporate vendor.
They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.
They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.
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but it’s good when teachers eke out intellectual lives, should be a regular part of the job
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
but it’s good when teachers eke out intellectual lives, should be a regular part of the job
Wilson 3.0
This is the core project of Trumpism 2.0
Data is beginning to reveal the devastating cumulative effects of the Trump administration’s policies for workers of color.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...
December 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Wilson 3.0
“Multiple Republican officials suggested without evidence” and then fill in the blank wapo.st/4s7ZMbs
Trump allies amplified unfounded online theories in wake of Brown shooting
In the gap between the shooting and an arrest, several top officials cast the school as inept and ideologically hostile to conservatives.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“Multiple Republican officials suggested without evidence” and then fill in the blank wapo.st/4s7ZMbs
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Okay last point I'll make -- re: the intro excerpt, there *is* something true about how the right is so irony-poisoned that the cardinal rules of anti-bigotry are now cringe. I've written about how Trump's comic sensibilities are central to understanding his politics: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
The Jan. 6 insurrection showcased how Trump used humor as a weapon
Donald Trump wanted to be both jester and king — and reshaped America in the process.
www.ms.now
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Okay last point I'll make -- re: the intro excerpt, there *is* something true about how the right is so irony-poisoned that the cardinal rules of anti-bigotry are now cringe. I've written about how Trump's comic sensibilities are central to understanding his politics: www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
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Some many years ago in #iTeachMath:
"The challenge facing American education has never been greater. Today's technological society requires that schools help children prepare for a life of continuous learning.
"The challenge facing American education has never been greater. Today's technological society requires that schools help children prepare for a life of continuous learning.
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Some many years ago in #iTeachMath:
"The challenge facing American education has never been greater. Today's technological society requires that schools help children prepare for a life of continuous learning.
"The challenge facing American education has never been greater. Today's technological society requires that schools help children prepare for a life of continuous learning.
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"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...
“When do our students really understand the algorithms we teach? When they can use them effectively, or when they understand how they work, and can reconstruct them if they forget crucial steps” dylanwiliam137385.substack.com/p/onions #iTeachMath
December 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“When do our students really understand the algorithms we teach? When they can use them effectively, or when they understand how they work, and can reconstruct them if they forget crucial steps” dylanwiliam137385.substack.com/p/onions #iTeachMath
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Filing under misleading graphs #iTeachMath
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Filing under misleading graphs #iTeachMath
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Another way to interpret this: The Washington Post endorses re-segregation of American society.
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Another way to interpret this: The Washington Post endorses re-segregation of American society.
"The current study contributes to extant literature by examining the efficacy of inquiry-based instruction separated by inquiry types, rather than grouping all forms of inquiry-based interventions together... for students with disabilities
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"The current study contributes to extant literature by examining the efficacy of inquiry-based instruction separated by inquiry types, rather than grouping all forms of inquiry-based interventions together... for students with disabilities
The American Way
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The American Way
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I maintain that a major difference between the humanities and math/sciences is we treat the latter as an innate skillset and we treat the humanities as learnable.
Also the people IME have the most contempt for the humanities are the ones who struggle to write a simple paragraph.
Also the people IME have the most contempt for the humanities are the ones who struggle to write a simple paragraph.
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I maintain that a major difference between the humanities and math/sciences is we treat the latter as an innate skillset and we treat the humanities as learnable.
Also the people IME have the most contempt for the humanities are the ones who struggle to write a simple paragraph.
Also the people IME have the most contempt for the humanities are the ones who struggle to write a simple paragraph.
I need to get to work on my book about the history of teaching calculations.
Not that this would prevent such theories, however. #iTeachMath
Not that this would prevent such theories, however. #iTeachMath
December 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I need to get to work on my book about the history of teaching calculations.
Not that this would prevent such theories, however. #iTeachMath
Not that this would prevent such theories, however. #iTeachMath
…algorithms can lead to higher costs for consumers because if companies know that their competitors will almost instantaneously match their prices, they have less incentive to try to attract customers by offering a better deal — a pattern the authors call “algorithmic coercion.”
The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.
#iTeachMath
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
#iTeachMath
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
…algorithms can lead to higher costs for consumers because if companies know that their competitors will almost instantaneously match their prices, they have less incentive to try to attract customers by offering a better deal — a pattern the authors call “algorithmic coercion.”
The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.
#iTeachMath
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
#iTeachMath
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.
#iTeachMath
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...
#iTeachMath
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...