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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 9d

Has anyone built a math practice app where every answer is 6, 7, or 67 yet?

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Maegan Giroux @maegangiroux.bsky.social · 20d

Visual Patterns 🤝 Pattern Blocks
I am currently OBSESSED, in a (mostly) healthy way, with @fawnnguyen.substack.com visual patterns and @mathforlove.bsky.social pattern blocks for kids to learn and create patterns. Ah-may-zing. Also, I am in LOVE with Mary Vail's Thinking Desks, they are phenomenal!

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DavidPetro314 @davidpetro314.bsky.social · 24d

[New Post] Ontario Math Links - My favourite #math related links from this week:

ontariomath.blogspot.com/2025/09/math...

links & help from @mrcorleymath.bsky.social @mathsweek.scot @darrenmacey.bsky.social @natbanting.bsky.social @maria-naturalmath.bsky.social &more #MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 24d

I think this is all sorted now!

(That’s 5 hours of my Saturday I won’t get back 😂)

MathIsLife @damianmolinari.bsky.social · 26d

When I try to load your website I get a message that your account has been suspended.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 25d

Yeah…

Something about hosting is screwy right now.

Sorry about that; trying to contact tech support is… tedius. 🙄

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote a new post yesterday:

natbanting.com/play-with-yo...

It’s about the benefits of teachers tinkering with the problems/prompts we offer students.

(And, tangentially, about the benefits of conference spaces where we are given license to do so)

#iteachmath

Play with your Problems

I am a compulsive problem poser. When presented with a mathematical context, I have an incredible amount of difficulty leaving it alone. My teacher instinct is to push, prod, tinker, and/or alter i…

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote a new post yesterday:

natbanting.com/play-with-yo...

It’s about the benefits of teachers tinkering with the problems/prompts we offer students.

(And, tangentially, about the benefits of conference spaces where we are given license to do so)

#iteachmath

Play with your Problems

I am a compulsive problem poser. When presented with a mathematical context, I have an incredible amount of difficulty leaving it alone. My teacher instinct is to push, prod, tinker, and/or alter i…

natbanting.com

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ornje

??

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ornje

Also accepted: Ornch

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Orange” is a 1-syllable word

(Massive family argument occurring)

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 24

Any old #bcedchat folks have a lead on a veteran math history teacher??

Math Gnome @noamloyola.bsky.social · Aug 24

BC has a grade 11 math history course!!

Have any BC math educators on here taught this course? If so, what was your experience?

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Math Gnome @noamloyola.bsky.social · Aug 24

BC has a grade 11 math history course!!

Have any BC math educators on here taught this course? If so, what was your experience?

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 12

Yup

Every influence is a sort of gambit.

And kids understand the structure of lessons and units. So eventually they will “self-spoil”

For this reason, I believe that the most authentic thinking occurs at the onset of a unit of study.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 12

In general, we are worried that what students do *fits* the current unit of study so we spend time “listening for” specific acts that fit instead of “listening with” student thinking in more open spaces.

I get it. I do it. School math is packed and we need to get kids specific places.

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 12

Math class: “Here’s a task about a hallway of lockers that involves perfect squares”

English class: “Here’s a book and, at the end, the hero dies”

These are identical experiences imho

I think math teachers feel an increased need to include more “spoilers” to justify openness in their classroom.

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · Aug 11

It’s true what they say. This is excellent.

And I’m going to quote the end to give you a taste:

“But personalized learning is the wrong ideal. … We shouldn’t be going all-in on kids learning on their own. We should be trying to figure out how to make whole-group learning even better.”

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wrote a post about pedagogy for all the math freaks out there. pershmail.substack.com/p/practice-s...

Practice Software is Struggling

Why whole-group teaching is easier than individual practice

pershmail.substack.com

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Chris Nho @nhoskee.bsky.social · Aug 11

#artmath

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Christopher Danielson @triangleman.bsky.social · Aug 11

#unitchat

Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 11

This exhibit at the Tate Modern in London giving real “How Many?” vibes.

@triangleman.bsky.social

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 11

This exhibit at the Tate Modern in London giving real “How Many?” vibes.

@triangleman.bsky.social

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 10

Oh. I haven’t.

I’ve seen people link to it, but I’ve never checked it out.

Something to consider tho!!

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 9

I don’t know what “Substack” is.

I have the blog alongside some other project files for folks (like #MenuMath and a some classroom resources from over the years)

Also a sort of running CV.

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Mike Deutsch @mdeutschmtl.bsky.social · Aug 8

Re-sharing from Feb ‘24: @natbanting.bsky.social waxes poetic about the Math Twitter Blog-o-Sphere (RIP). Man, that was a heady scene. It felt like an open apprenticeship for those of us on the periphery. I love seeing so many good folks emerge from it. #mtbos

natbanting.com/rip-bos-a-tr...

RIP-BoS: A Tribute to the Math-Twitter Blog-O-Sphere

When I was a first year teacher, the teachers in my province went on strike for two days. It was on the first of those two days that I signed up for Twitter in order to follow public opinion on the…

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 8

Lots of the stagnancy isn’t due to lack of ideas, it’s a busy young family.

I never fathomed how much work raising littles is!! 😴

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Karen Campe @karencampe.bsky.social · Aug 8

Looking forward to reading!

Here's my latest, on the importance of our connections to each other (thank you for being in my group of math people!)

karendcampe.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/f...

Find Your (Math) People

Teaching is hard. The day-to-day cycle of planning, presenting, orchestrating, testing, and reflecting is continuous, and there’s always the uncertainty of how the students will show up (or not) to…

karendcampe.wordpress.com

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Nat Banting @natbanting.bsky.social · Aug 8

Finally! An AI that gets me.

Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Aug 7

Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:

‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments

Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

www.businessinsider.com

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