"The Counter" February newsletter is out!
Highlights:
@ilanahorn.bsky.social "Mathematics Education at the End of the World", @davidpetro314.bsky.social OAMETalks on the OAME2026 conference & Michael Frankfort on Learning (Dis)abilities
sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/n...
#mtbos #mathed #onted
Chatting #AI in #mathed with the good folks in the Pacific North West on Monday, Feb. 9th!
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#mtbos #ArtificialIntelligence #pcmi
SEASON 5 HAS STARTED!
Check out our latest episode:
Is AI Helpful in Math Education?
Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Or listen on Spotify:
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Or check us out wherever you listen to podcasts!
#DebateMath
Wondering about #AI in Education?
The AI experts come together again tonight online for Explor-AI-tion 2.0 : there's still time to register!
(there's a 50% off code for math folks!)
#onted #mtbos #iteachmath #AIInnovation
ecoo.org/exploraition...
My favourite use for #AI this year?
I used the Santa emoji for an activity and needed the back of his head, so I asked ChatGPT to give me the image:
#mtbos #mathed #santa
Love Christmas! My colleague made these Christmas Tree cupcakes to share. I'm enjoying it while I invigilate this end of term AP Calculus test.
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Me (reading blogpost): Ugh, this is just AI slop.
Author: It's my work!
Me: No, I'd really like to read your work, but not AI's homogenization of it (It was formatted exactly like ChatGPT, em-dashes abound, "not this but this" structures, etc).
Author <blocks me>
Yeah, I remembered she was on on the battleship... I should have remembered she is Cher! :)
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I was making a #OneNote Page for my Gr 10 class and we were turning back time to a previous topic to use in our new problem.
I tipped Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time" in as a side-note.
Then I played the video.. and quickly deleted it.
youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A...
Little too racy.
Learning happens best when teachers look students in the eye, not look down on them.
Dialogue, not authority, engenders well-being.
Santiago Rincon-Gillargo at #otfcurriculumforum
#mtbos #onted #mathed
"Learning to be taught" (the required compliance for reasonable management and safety, that becomes an overwhelming aspect of schools) is not equal to "Learning to learn" (Learning as a practice of freedom)
Santiago Rincon-Gillargo at #otfcurriculumforum
#mtbos #mathed
"We may not be able to replace the system, but we can create the friction that makes cracks in the system's concrete in which life can flourish"
Benjamin Freud via Dr. Santiago Rincon-Gillargo at @otffeo Curriculum Forum
@OAMEcounts #mathed #mtbos
"This is just axiomatically true... which is MathSpeak for 'Because I told you so!'"
@freya.bsky.social via www.youtube.com/@acegikmo
#mtbos gang, assemble!
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[New Podcast] This episode features Stacey Jacobs previewing their Nov 12th @oamecounts.bsky.social members only webinar "Empowering Math Learners: Executive Function Strategies to Support Math Learning". More info:
talks.oame.on.ca/season-8
#MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath
The @oamecounts.bsky.social November Newsletter is out!
What's going on in Ontario Mathematics?
(spoiler: Leadership Conference with Dr. Elham Kazemi tonight, Wed, at 7pm!)
sites.google.com/oame.on.ca/n...
#onted #mathed #mtbos
Sorry, #AI ... the document is LONG because it's important, and the text has been chosen deliberately to convey meaning by the author. I don't need Reader's Digest abridged and condensed versions.
29.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LLMs are injective and invertible.
They show that different prompts always map to different embeddings, and this property can be used to recover input tokens from individual embeddings in latent space.
Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511
Me: And after you substitute into the equation, it's just arithmetic.
Student: What's arithmetic?
Thank you, that was a fun diversion!
24.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Public embarrassment has always been a powerful motivator for me, too.
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Slide shows: "Solve (x^2 -5x +5)^(x^2 -9x +20) = 1
NIM: 4 pile game - Draw 4 piles of dots, one has 8, one has 4, one has 2, and the last has 1 dot. - You can take as many as you want each turn, but only from 1 pile. - The winner takes the last dot. Do you see a winning strategy?
Two things from #NCTMatl25 that I'm going to be using *this* week:
Gail Burrill's algebra problem, and @gwaddell.bsky.social and Ed Keppelmann's 4 pile Nim.
I'm excited for my #AI schedule tonight at #ExplorAItion !
There's still time to register (and *cough* there's a special OAME code for 50% off)
ecoo.org/exploraition...
#mtbos #mathed #onted
"Discrete mathematics in primary and secondary schools in the United States"
2004
DeBellis Valerie A. & Joseph G. Rosenstein
There are some fire quotes in this #MathEdPaperOfTheWeek
#mtbos #iteachmath
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This looks interesting! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
18.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
So I had two tasks at #NCTMATL25 (besides presenting with Cynthia Shi) ... see @pegcagle.bsky.social and Gail Burrill
... mission accomplished! And a bonus visit with
Vicki Lyons
Forgot to take a pic with Peg & Vicki, but I got Gail!
#mtbos #mathed
Okay, this is still an issue in high school
#nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed
Each representation is correct, but which are helpful, at what stage, and for which purpose?
#nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed
So the previous session mentioned procedural fluency versus conceptual understanding.
The next session drove the point home.
#nctmatl25 #mtbos #mathed
Inspired by #NCTMATL25 to present at an upcoming conference? Both NCTM and OAME 2026 conference proposals close on Nov. 1st. Here are some thoughts on the benefits of writing a math conference proposal. pbbmath.weebly.com/blog/confere... #ITeachMath @oamelearns.bsky.social
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