Author: Geoff
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Emergent Math Winter Mini-Series: How (not) to get your PhD
(Usually I reserve my longform blogging projects or other math projects on this website for the Summer. However, I’ve been working on this mini-series for months now and finally have enough time to figure out what I want to convey. Also I was waiting to figure out what the next chapter of my story in…
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Explainer Post: A Year’s Worth of Illuminating 5th-to-6th Grade Warm Ups
A year’s worth of math warm ups intended to help students and teachers get kids ready for middle school math.
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We’re about to get a lot of dubious research on A.I. in education
Education journals are calling for papers on AI, but educators have barely even had access to it. So what kind of research on AI are we going to see in 2024?
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Experiencing novice-ness through tabletop games
It’s important as seasoned Math teachers we remember what it’s like to experience new content. Modern tabletop games might be the best way to create those experiences.
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My semester with Desmos Activity Builder
This semester I taught College Algebra and Developmental Math at a community college. Being new to the institution, I mostly hewed to the standards and progressions and textbooks from prior iterations of the course taught by more tenured faculty. However, I did make one significant change: the graphing calculator. While previous iterations of the course…
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What’s so great about self-checking exercises?
My students really appreciated self-checking exercises this semester iin College Algebra. This post offers some benefits and examples of self-checking exercises using Desmos’ Activity Builder feature.
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‘Necessary Conditions’ Five Years Later
Necessary Conditions was published five years ago this Fall. I’m not sure if five years is a long time or a short time, but it’s a natural time frame to reflect on the book (since we evolved to have five fingers instead of, say, four). So I apologize in advance for what is sure to…
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Reconceptualizing “more math” for pre- and in-service teachers
I am rereading Liping Ma’s Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics for a class. It’s an exceptional book; I’d put it on the Mount Rushmore of books about math education (that might be a post for another day). For those who haven’t read it, the book is an exploration of elementary math instruction in the U.S.…
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No pushback: So I guess education has given up
In 2019, North Carolina attempted to push through a bill that would force trans individuals to use the bathroom of their sex assigned at birth, rather than their current gender. It was only a few years ago, but there was mass outrage in a way that seems unthinkable today. Most notably, the National Basketball Association…
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