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You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

Headline of the year www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Becomes a good example of what to do if basis step is not true 😆

I wrote about a math teaching app.
pershmail.substack.com/p/math-acade...

FCD Roster Build 2025 - start of camp check in - 3rd Degree With FC Dallas spring camp starting today, it's time to check in on the state of the roster build for 2025.

It's go time! What's missing?

#FCDallas Roster Build 2025 – start of camp check in 3rddegree.net/fcd-roster-b...

Exciting new maths of 2024 Over at the Finite Group, members (including me and Katie) have been discussing what in maths news has excited us this year. Here’s a summary. Brayden Casella and fellow authors claimed that …

I saw @teakayb.bsky.social say you can include a link as a ‘link card’ without keeping the URL in your message text, so I’m trying it out.

#mathstoday G2 has been an interesting question to grade.

At TexasXI on Substack: I wrote about what the latest rumblings out of Toyota Stadium might be telling us about FC Dallas
texasxi.substack.com/p/at-fc-dall...

Graph Theory 101

This thread is a delightful intro to graph theory ... and mathematics in general.

[AA2T] Problem Set 4: Exponential Challenge! [23-24] Name: ________________________ Problem 1. Recall that complex numbers are numbers of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers, and i is defined by i2 = -1. [Sometimes, people write: “i = √-1” ...

i managed to sneak this into a problem set that i wrote last year:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

... will probably give out this or something similar in the spring!

YouTube video by Jim Simons Vibrating Stings

I once knew a bit about Fourier Analysis, but now I teach #ALevelMaths and make videos about that sort of material. So I've made a video about probably the simplest example of Fourier analysis, vibrating strings, as enrichment for students (and their teachers!)
youtu.be/sa3f2iwKxM0

eravioli wrote on Oct 17 I just started grad school this fall after a few years away from school and man | did not realize how dire the A/LLM situation is in universities now. In the past few weeks: * I chatted with a classmate about how it was going to be a tight timeline on a project for a programming class. He responded "Yeah, at least if we run short on time, we can just ask chatGPT to finish it for us” * One of my professors pulled up chatGPT on the screen to show us how it can sometimes do our homework problems for us and showed how she thanks it after asking it questions "in case it takes over some day." * l asked one of my TAs in @ math class to explain how a piece of code he had written worked in an assignment. He looked at it for about 15 seconds then went "I don't know, ask chatGPT" * A student in my math group insisted he was right on an answer to a problem. When | asked where he got that info, he sent me a screenshot of Google gemini giving just blatantly wrong info. He stillinsisted he was right when | pointed this out and refused to click into any of the actual web pages. * A different student in my math class told me he pays $20 per month for the “computational” version of chatGPT, which he uses for all of his classes and PhD research. The computational version is worth it, he says, because it is wrong "less often’. He uses chatGPT for all his homework and can't figure out why he's struggling on exams. There's a lot more, but it's really making me feel crazy. Even if it was right 100% of the time, why are you paying thousands of dollars to go to school and learn if you're just going to plug everything into a computer whenever you're asked to think??

Long term I think unis will find a way to combat LLM use, if nothing else to preserve their societal role as the official designator of "smartness" to save companies the trouble of developing a hiring procedure

But in the meantime we'll see a couple of cohorts absolutely determined to learn nothing

They don't even know the difference between "to" and "too" or "effect" and "affect" but they want to push a few buttons and spit out a paper. FOR WHAT?! The purpose of SCHOOL is to LEARN, not appease a teacher for a meaningless grade.

Repeat after me, kids: "AI doesn't think for you!"

#EduSky

"Divide each shape below into three congruent pieces." Below are 16 shapes consisting of squares, with square grids shown inside them to make division easier.

Some dissection puzzles I made four years ago
#math #puzzle #iTeachMath

A menu of integration at the start of #MathsToday for Y13.
Classify by technique. Lots of good discussions.
#ALevelMaths

Ya know who had an outstanding half?

Tanner.

33/34 passing including this one touch, perfectly paced ball to Weston..and then the sweet dummy. All half he knew when to slow down and when to go. He’s so good.

#mathstoday surprisingly challenging for my #calculus students to find this volume.

This type of feedback is what we hope we can inspire.

Guide students in understanding maths... not simply doing maths.

Set up a foundation, provide structures and framework to do more things more independently yet be present to help along where needed.

Much like riding a bicycle.

‘He was in mystic delirium’: was this hermit mathematician a forgotten genius whose ideas could transform AI – or a lonely madman? In isolation, Alexander Grothendieck seemed to have lost touch with reality, but some say his metaphysical theories could contain wonders

A fascinating read about the fate of the work of a mind on the edge (from my Chinese military spy phone). I think he wouldn't approve of Huawei trying to use his research but perhaps there's no way to stop them. I wonder if there will be anything exploitable.
www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

I've been impressed with their radio marketing presence past week advertising on KTCK and various spanish language 📻 stations emphasizing first pro women's team and scrimmage on August 30

Math’s Mutable Rules John McWhorter, one of my favorite public intellectuals, writes (in his recent essay “Lets chill out about apostrophes”), “Writing does not entail immutable rules in the way that mathematics does.” I ...

Took me way too long to read Jim Propp's latest, a beauty about order of operations and algebra. mathenchant.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/m...

Dallas Trinity FC names Pauline MacDonald as head coach - 3rd Degree Dallas Trinity FC has announced the hiring of Pauline MacDonald as their first head coach.

Dallas Trinity FC names Pauline MacDonald as head coach
#DTFC
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Luccin's FC Dallas earns his maiden win against St. Louis - 3rd Degree The Peter Luccin era kicked off with a win over St. Louis CITY SC. Was it entertaining? Yes. Was it a technical masterclass? Not quite. In some ways the game fe

Luccin’s #FCDallas earns his maiden win against St. Louis

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Standards or specifications? A fundamental choice in alternative grading maybe isn't quite so fundamental

Today on Grading for Growth: Standards or Specifications? It's *not* as big a choice as you might have heard... but it *is* an important choice for all alternative graders. Yes, even "ungraders".

This was the first instructions to get rid of inaccurate AI nonsense on Google searches that worked for me! Thank you @maggieastor.bsky.social and whoever made this!

Yes.

A nice way to put it in your case.

Parameter in this context?

Some point to NCLB.
Others point to the ubiquitousness of expecting all to go to college.

To me (20+ years in education), the part of too much reading (or too much maths hw) is related to opportunity cost of what is missed is more seen and erosion of prior reading earlier. Partial texts is norm now

Where can purchase?