Nat Banting

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!! 😴

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…

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!)

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Finally! An AI that gets me.

I don’t think people read blog much anymore, but a week in a library has produced a few new ones for this school year.

Some thoughts that have been ratting about in my head for a while.

#TURDMath

The time crunch on feedback is the most difficult part of compressed courses.

I find student feedback to polarize as the course compresses. (Taught 6 hours a day for 5 days vs 3 hour classes over 10 weeks)

Here’s a thing about teaching post-secondary:

After the course, you’ll get emails expressing how enjoyable the course was. You’ll also get the odd one saying they disliked you and the course.

The former are sent immediately; the latter are sent after grades come out.

Pay attention to both.

I feel like I did. Would have to check notes I left for myself.

It was pre-pandemic and I cannot 100% confirm that those days even existed.

I also was eyes deep in embodied cognition writing a thesis.

Read this in my “grad school” era.

🤯

Nope!

Someone in the province beat me to it.

(Also: it implies that “Love Math” is also taken.)

👀 the license plate

Summer Banting is getting pretty boujee

**overheard at Starbucks**

Customer: “What’s the wifi password?”
Barista: “1-3-5-7-9. All the odd numbers.”
C: “That’s a lot of numbers to remember.”
B: “It’s a pattern. Once you see it, it makes sense. But until then, it’s just a bunch of numbers.”

Friggin’ profound advice re: math education.

I think a distinction between “math” and “school math” is necessary here.

Then I’d posit that any animosity is initiated (and sustained) by “school”.

Because math never had a neutral opinion of them.

Taco shells with ingredients all around & a complete taco ready-to-eat

We’re currently under a severe thunderstorm watch here in Alberta. I love this handy guide which clearly explains the difference between a “watch” and a “warning.”
#yegwx #abstorm #yegweather

Find what you love. Do more of that. [#tmc15] Here is the text of the keynote I planned to give at Twitter Math Camp. Actual product may have varied substantially in content (but not in spirit) from the typed original. If you’ve never se…

Oh dang. This little piece of writing holds up pretty well.

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Thanks!!

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Fun start to Summer break

I tried Google slides but couldn’t figure out how people could use a pen tool without being in presentation mode.

Yeah, lots have 3 for free.

Jamboard was just so convenient.

It’s through StFX university but they also might have Microsoft suite.

I’ll poke around! Thanks!

Has anyone found a replacement for Google Jamboard?

I need a free, simple online whiteboard collaboration tool.

CONGRATS!

The ripples from your work were felt here (and many, many other places)!!

Hi Blue Sky! I edit the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. We publish articles, essays, #fiction & #poetry on doing, teaching & living of #mathematics. So far we had more than 700K full-text downloads of our content - why not check us out? scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ #math #openaccess #mathart

Me with a custom funko pop that is a perfect likeness. White glasses, old man beard, bald, holding a baseball. “Mr. Bezaire” on the box.

An amazing gift from our MS faculty 🥹

Time to shave the playoff beard.

Means that the sprint to graduation is on!

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💚 💛

In the spirit of Canadian unity, I will adhere to prairie pronunciations from now on.

It’s not worth the chasm that’s formed between us 😂