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Sunil Singh

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Author. Speaker. Math Storyteller. Porous Educator. Music freak and geek. Everything on "11". Rock’s Not Dead; You Are.

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Mathematics Education Conferences Have Become Infomercials For The Hustle Culture One of the largest state math conferences, CAMT in Texas, is ending today. The first test to see if the title of this blog is provocative…
12.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Episode 38 - Sunil Singh: The Mathematics of the Good Life Podcast Episode · Education Matters Podcast · 2025-07-10 · 1h 10m
11.07.2025 13:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Back To The Beginning: The Ironic Absence Of Black Sabbath's Underground Legacy The underground legacy of Black Sabbath glaringly absent from Back To The Beginning –a tribute that celebrated fame but overlooked the true heirs of Doom Metal

Being curious for mathematics and new music are intertwined for me.

07.07.2025 15:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Teaching Mathematics Without Historical Stories Is The Soulless Conclusion Of Education One of the gifts that mathematics has given me, especially this stage of my life(I am 61), is that I really don't know that much at all when it comes to mathematics. In the ultra-competitive world of ...
01.07.2025 18:06 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Better than traditional K to 12:)

27.06.2025 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mathematics Education Is Humpty Dumpty--Nobody Will Ever Fix It. I quit teaching in 2013 because I couldn't even have autonomy to fix my own classroom--boring curriculum, constant testing, useless professional development, and dehumanizing goals. So those who are p...
27.06.2025 12:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Why Do We Teach Mathematics? You would be naive and terribly misguided as an educator to have the answer to that question wrapped in words like joy, wonder, awe, creativity, magical, inspirational, humanizing, uplifting, celebrat...
25.06.2025 22:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A teaser for my 1500-word article for July's issue of Wellness Magazine.

wellnessedmag.com/recent-issues/

07.06.2025 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agreed, but your statement more or less said you probably aren't familiar with them, while acknowledging their existence.

07.06.2025 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really? Do value head phone quality over what you are listening to? Do you value the quality of kitchen appliances/utensils over what is being cooked/served/eaten?

06.06.2025 20:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Math Education's Achilles Heel: It Ignored Conversations About Content Mathematics education is failing globally. Test scores are falling everywhere for reasons that are not being addressed--they just don't care anymore.
06.06.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

DEI and "woke" got co-opted and weaponized by the right because the left was lazy and never vigilant enough to protect those things. They are equally to blame for the marginalized becoming more so...

04.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Building Thinking Classrooms: The Dangerous Wall of Mathematics Education This entire article was inspired by my conversation with Raelene Gibson, a passionate and brilliant math educator in Qatar. She was also one of my last invitees to this Fall's Global Math Summit in Sa...

www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...

04.06.2025 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Building Thinking Classrooms: The Dangerous Wall of Mathematics Education This entire article was inspired by my conversation with Raelene Gibson, a passionate and brilliant math educator in Qatar. She was also one of my last invitees to this Fall's Global Math Summit in Sa...

www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...

04.06.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Rise And Fall of Building Thinking Classrooms In Mathematics I'm an  award-winning  teacher in Atlanta with experience teaching at every level from elementary school to college.  I made this website to share ideas, stories, and resources from my teaching...

Long, but well-written article that details every stage. Any pedagogical idea that enters in a phase of mass adoption is really a death sentence.

I never drank the Kool-Aid.

04.06.2025 00:10 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Cagliari

03.06.2025 00:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mathematics Education Conferences Are Obsolete--Because Its Institutions Have Fallen Out Of Trust Mathematics education was doomed to fail because it has been insulated by so many institutional bubbles and poor adaptability to societal realities--conservative education, narrow vision/understanding...
29.05.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It's Too Late For Math Education: It's Infected By AI Discussions On October 1, 2025, former US Olympiad Math Coach Po-Shen Loh will be speaking at The Global Math Summit in Sardinia, Italy--to a public audience. Without knowing what he will talk about, I am 100% su...
24.05.2025 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Mathematics Education Is Mostly Marketing Of An Inferior Product Mathematics education is a monopoly. I would even say it’s a bit of Ponzi scheme. I can say all these things comfortably because the…
23.05.2025 15:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mathematics Must Be An Interdisciplinary Subject: The Renaissance Period Is The Blueprint I have spent my post-classroom career in the area of mathematics history and storytelling. That's over ten years.
22.05.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mathematics Education Failed Me: It Turned Out To Be The Most Important Gift In My Life September, 1998. First day of school. I arrived early at Riverdale Collegiate. My new school. The previous year, I was at Western Tech…
10.05.2025 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mathematics Education Through The Telescopic Lens Life Of A Girl — My Daughter My daughter wrote this last evening, sitting on her bed, listening to music. Needless to say, my eyes welled up instantly — and stayed…

sunilsingh-42118.medium.com/mathematics-...

02.05.2025 17:08 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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Math Education’s Echo Chamber Is Dominated By Efficiency, Ego, and Edu-Celebrities Mathematics education is dead.

And with all echo chambers, dissenting views--like this one--never make it inside. They are not allowed.

19.04.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Global Math Summit 2025 Explore the transformative Global Math Summit 2025, connecting educators, researchers, and pioneers in math education to inspire and innovate teaching practices worldwide.

We are LIVE!

17.04.2025 23:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
L.A. WITCH -- 'GET LOST' [Official Video]
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And this one!

16.04.2025 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Our Emotional Journey With Learning Mathematics Must Include Being Lost In Its Beautiful Wilderness When I started tutoring Amoret Lyon — who nows lives in Frascatti, Italy — there was no plan to write a book. There was definitely no plan…
16.04.2025 13:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Math Education: Joy In Learning Mathematics Is No Longer Important I just came back from the best conference of my life. It wasn’t a math one. It was a Mental Health Summit in beautiful Banff, Alberta.
13.04.2025 15:20 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A response to a blog I wrote last year.

medium.com/@sunilsingh-...

04.03.2025 00:14 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hope to see you in 2026:) Fight the good fight, Ken!

27.02.2025 01:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks, Doug! Much appreciated:) Even Scott Reeder tagged me in a posting of it❤️

24.02.2025 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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