Kit 🏳️‍🌈

Anything that is commonly taught using a mnemonic. I have to unteach all that before they can make sense of it. FOIL, PEMDAS, SOCAHTOA, all of that shit.

I don't mind multiplication or division nearly as much as I hate addition & subtraction with scientific notation.

1000%!!

Write (some monstrosity of operations) as an expression/equation e.g. “Five less than two times the sum of seventeen and three” 🫠

US: “How to Dems appeal to Christians and not get painted as the anti-God party?”

DNC chair @kenmartin.bsky.social : “There’s nothing Christian about Republicans throwing 42 million Americans off food assistance, or kicking the poorest off of their health benefits. Their faith is empty.”

know how money works, inflation works, or, historically, how much money people make. It's really rather laughable.

This is the problem with people. The entire sum of human knowledge is at their fingertips, and they'd rather just... remain ignorant.

Educate yourself.🧵

day, or that people actually MADE $1000 as a week's wage back in the day. The median weekly income in the US **TODAY** is only $1139. Actually learn how numbers work. Learn how inflation works. Learn how MONEY works.

In summation:

Your entire point is completely off the mark because you don't ⤵️

ten pair of boots is richer than a person who can afford one. It's quite the opposite in fact. Stop sucking capitalism's dick. Open your eyes.

and

D) Learn how the fuck inflation works for the love of all things sacred. I cannot believe you honestly think that a pair of boots cost $1000 back in ⤵️

them out of your ass, because $1000 in the early 1800s was enough to buy property, start up a business, and live comfortably for SEVERAL YEARS.

2) Sam Vimes already discusses the Boots Theory of Economics, and does it far better than you do, and the end point isn't that someone who can afford⤵️

Strange times indeed.

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

"The shutdown is putting “the burden of financial uncertainty” on a workforce that's enduring “10 hours a day, up to 60 hours a week, on a job that requires you to be rested and and to check your emotions and things like that at the door, and to focus 100% on safety.”

you either need universal basic income for humans or you must limit the use of Gen AI in such a way that humans aren’t radically impoverished as a result.

you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.

I tend to agree with this. If AI works like its cheerleaders claim/hope it will - replacing whole swathes of human labour - then they need a real economic plan for dealing with the consequences of that. This can only mean heavily redistributing the profits.

That was one of the (MANY) conflicting sessions I wanted to go to but didn't. I'd love to chat with you about it more!

Thoughts from #ATMNE25: When looking at school culture, consider, "How are adults talking about kids? How are admin talking about teachers?" Need to be viewing both with a mindset of growth, opportunity, not deficit. @marriamath.bsky.social

"We may not all be teachers of mathematics, but we are ALL teachers of math attitudes." @themathguru.bsky.social is delivering our closing keynote for today. 😍 #ATMNE25

We had a lovely session, talking math talks and same & different.
Slides at bit.ly/ATMNE-math-routines for anyone playing along from home or at a different wonderful #ATMNE25 session.

I used to think___ you don't have time to tell stories/build relationships with students in secondary math (all time needed for the curriculum)

Now I think___ "You don't have time NOT to." -Paul Gray

{discussion from @mrkitmath.bsky.social 's session at #ATMNE25
#iTeachMath #MTBoS

Kit standing in front of his presentation

"Storytelling...is how we pass down our culture." #ATMNE25

Kit in front of a slide defining pedagogical use of self. "A pedagogical use of self is when you strategically embed yourself into the curriculum in stories that will captivate students and cultivate a community of mathematicians in your classroom."

Much like the mental health community has a Therapeutic Use of Self as a tool in the toolkit, Kit is advocating for a Pedagogical Use of Self in classrooms. #ATMNE25

Rocking my @flomask.bsky.social while I present at #ATMNE25 on Mathematizing Our Lives.

Mr Kit Math standing in front of slide "Stories as Mathematizing Out Lives" Mathematizing... -makes math knowledge useful -situates math in context of learner's world -solves problems -is a human activity -is a VERB, an ACTION

At #ATMNE25 we are mathematizing with @mrkitmath.bsky.social
The purpose of stories is to build rapport w/Ss and build reason to do the math.
#iTeachMath #MTBoS

"You're not just solving a word problem - you're helping me solve a life problem. You're making sure I don't disappoint Bubbe again."

@mrkitmath.bsky.social is connecting buying bagels to Mathematizing Our Lives. #ATMNE25

lol in case it wasn't obvious, they're setting up apartheid.

This is the third U.S. Attorney found to be unlawfully appointed. The other two are Sigal Chattah and Alina Habba. Their indictments stand because they were signed by other prosecutors. Not true for Lindsey Halligan.

Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

Racial Isolation and Marginalization of Economic Research on Race and Crime (June 2022) - This essay examines the extent to which research on the economics of race and crime produced by Black economists or published in the flagship journal of the organization of Black economi...

In fact, research by Black economists is typically marginalized in economics, similar to how sociological insights are marginalized. This is especially true in areas like the economics of crime, which (ironically) disproportionately impacts Black people. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Oh pretty please people, let’s include alt text when answering these fun questions!

It’s one of those circumstances when it is extra EXTRA useful!

(I feel like when folks see these “post a pic” things they think it means they shouldn’t include the alt text)