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Ralph Pantozzi
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(a personal account) MoMath Rosenthal Prize • #PAEMST • SciFri Educator • RutgersGSE • NCTM MAA Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics
Arguments about #math #education in the 1940's. Sound familiar? #iTeachMath
October 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Howard F. Fehr
October 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
What do you notice? What do you wonder? #iTeachMath
October 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Make your bots!
October 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What is real? What is an illusion? #iTeachMath
October 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
mathotel
September 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
September 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
September 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Silently judging 😆 #Australia
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Gardens of Branching Paths: Discovering Possible Worlds of Research at the Library of Congress

my latest post at the Library of Congress: what do you notice? What do you wonder? #iTeachMath
August 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
August 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
What do you do when you dream of exploring space, but the spaces in which you travel contain few clear routes to the stars? You do #math.

Cynthia Simmons: Space for Math at the Mathematical Association of America's Math Values Blog. #iTeachMath

maa.org/math-values/...
July 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Don't Drink and Derive: the story of Isaac Greenwood and the first American #math textbook. #iTeachMath On Youtube: youtu.be/qdn4t-omjTE?...
July 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Arithmetick Vulgar and Decimal
July 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
July 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Inappropriate use of timed tests can cause #math anxiety and avoidance. Other things do too: overemphasis on algorithms kids don’t understand, lack of applications, etc.

Who’s got examples?
#iTeachMath
June 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Librarians love open books.
June 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"Any impediment to learning, of which there are many, restricts the flow in the entire pipeline. Like cholesterol in the blood, mathematics can clog the educational arteries of the nation."
3/8
May 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Metaphors for #math #education #iTeachMath "a pipeline for human resources that flows from childhood experiences to scientific careers."

pipelines... Think about their impact on the environment...Where are they placed and why? what else is possible? a 🧵 from 1990
1/8
May 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Paired posts
May 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
If only it were that simple #iTeachMath cc: @covingtonedu.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
And you think shopping is difficult today #iTeachMath
May 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
In immediate context
May 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is so curious “"Students don't learn things without active discovery" is manifestly, demonstratbly untrue.”
May 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Birthday Math Joy
May 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM