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Amie Albrecht

@nomadpenguin.bsky.social

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Professor of Math Ed. Dormant mathematician. Thinks a lot about teaching. Pedagogical pragmatist. Tsundoku master. Champion napper. Dirty lefty. Blogging at amiealbrecht.com

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 9h

Feels like this could be a good Spot the Difference.

Two distinctive orange-y Kia cars, one parked behind the other.

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Open Middle @openmiddle.com · 16h

Here's a matrix multiplication problem from Bryan Anderson that will help you bring out their conceptual understanding. See hints and answers on Open Middle. www.openmiddle.com/matrix-m...

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 1d

Very!

Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 1d

Wordle 1,573 3/6*

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What a fun game! I just shuffled every letter in guess 2 to the left by one, and voila!

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 3d

Two weeks out from the 50th anniversary of the execution of the ‘Balibo Five’, I thought it time to pull this from the shelves. Maniarty intersperses memories of 1975 with the shooting of the movie. A really useful read to understand what happened. #read2025

Book cover: “Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor” by Tony Maniaty

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 6d

I used this task this week to introduce Y10 to simultaneous equations.

Drawing attention to important decisions that need to be made.

#MathsToday

"What's the same and what's different?"
4 pairs of simultaneous equations with very similar coefficients.

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garywyles.bsky.social @garywyles.bsky.social · 6d

I shall now recite "Ode To A Goldfish" in it's entirety, a poem I read in school over 40 years ago:

O, wet pet
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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 7d

In Paris, porcelain plates inside 18 meter pool filled with water create random sound symphony without human interference..pretty cool 😎

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 6d

Fellow Aussies. Enjoy your last night before this madness descends.

A map of Australia, showing the five different time zones for daylight saving: WA +8, NT +9.5, QLD +10, SA +10.5, NSW/VIC/TAS +11.

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 6d

Wordle 1,568 2/6*

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 7d

I applaud @civixplorer for this delightful little bit of flag nonsense.

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Michael Kinyon @profkinyon.bsky.social · 8d

Me: It is common to use first person plural, "we", in mathematical writing. It suggests the author and the reader are working together through the mathematics.

Students: *skeptical looks*

Me: Alternatively, it's the royal we as in "We are not amused"

S: *enthusiastic nodding*

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 8d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 7d

Bloody awesome news.

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 9d

Can we start calling it “regurgitative AI” instead of “generative”

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 9d

Well done!!

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 10d

That sounds very challenging. Lots of strength to your family.

Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · 10d

Did you find it? I’ve done a literature search on maths autobios and can think of at least one paper that did this. Just can’t remember the details. I can look it up if helpful.