Kurt Shepherd

@alyankovic.bsky.social thank you for a great concert in Montana. My wife and I both have enjoyed your music since we were young. To share tonight with our daughter was extra special. You and your band were amazing.

Any presentation by Dave is worth seeing.

Made with love (and equations). 💕

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@meninblazers.bsky.social has anyone heard from Rog? Will we see him in some highlights streaking on the pitch at Goodison?

Super Bowl Prop Bets Results 2025

Here’s a link to the spreadsheet. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#iTeachMath #MathSky results from my classes’ Super Bowl Prop Bets activity. They would have lost almost $700 if we would have bet their picks. Glad I’m to cheap to bet.

Then I used the wrong “you’re”. Strike 2 😁

Your right. Crap. I need to look at it again. Thanks for pointing it out.

#EduSky #iTeachMath Students pushed back today on changing mixed numbers to fractions before dividing them. I finally showed them the first 3 steps to dividing while leaving them as mixed numbers. All but 1 student caved after seeing this.

I looked back at the results from the three years I have run this. The first year they would have been up $20. Last year they would have been down $186. The second year they would have been up $1500, most of that coming someone scoring a touchdown and then also scoring the 2-pt try (an “octopus”)

Super Bowl Prop Bets Explore some probability concepts while studying some of the proposition bets with this year's Super Bowl. Most of the bets have nothing to do with which team wins the game, so kids who don't follow f...

Just updated my Super Bowl Prop Bets activity for this year. If you use it let me know how your class does. #iTeachMath #MathSky teacher.desmos.com/activitybuil...

Same link as before.

Just updated it today with some new beadwork in it.

three men in suits and ties are standing in a living room and pointing at something . ALT: three men in suits and ties are standing in a living room and pointing at something .

Three showed up at my house too

I might update it in the next week or two with some new pictures I have.

MFPE Native American Beadwork and Geometry v2.0 An activity linking Transformational Geometry to Native American Beadwork. The video was done by PBS Reno. The image on this screen is from a medallion that one of my students made for me. He is a me...

I have a middle school activity I do with Native American beadwork and transformational geometry. I’m sure you can adapt it to your needs. Here’s a link. teacher.desmos.com/activitybuil...

The earrings were done on simple frames. I’m not sure where they got them from. Let me know if you need anything else. I will be updating the activity in a couple weeks with some new examples of beadwork a student shared with me today.

The geometry lesson is in Desmos Classroom. Here is the link teacher.desmos.com/activitybuil...
The history of beading was a presentation by two teachers from our Indigenous Education Department. They used Rocaille beads. These are pictures of the directions the kids followed

Totally agree with Kathy. Being a Desmos Fellow is the best thing that has happened in my career. Take the chance and apply.

Today was the first day of my Math Lab kids making beadwork earrings. We did a lesson on Rigid transformations in Native American beadwork and the history of beadwork before this. Here are some pictures. #iteachmath #mtbos

This week I’m doing something new. I ended last week showing rigid transformations in Native American Beadwork. I have guest speakers this week on the history of beading and then kids will make their own beadwork. We will ask them to show the math in their work.

The kid smiled. I said how I love teaching like this because kids acting like kids helps us learn more math. The kid had a huge grin and said “That’s why this class is fun.” Made my day. #iTeachMath #EduSky

I was doing a Desmos Classroom lesson today on proportional relationships. I asked “If you buy 4 lbs. of chicken tenders how much does it cost?” Most of the class says “$0”. One kid says “$5”. I then went into how when you order and there is a shipping fee that is not proportional. 1/2

Thanks. I will use it in the next few weeks.

Fraction Operations Practice Self correcting activities on operations with fractions.

Here’s a link to my fraction operations collections. teacher.desmos.com/collection/6...

Most of them are self-correcting practices. The first 5 are the ones I did with Polypad. They need some work but it’s a start. I would love to see how you would improve them.

I’ve done some stuff with Desmos Classroom and Polypad for fraction work. It’s probably not at the level you need but it could be a starting point for someone.

That’s what I did. The student divided each value by 5 and left them as fractions in the answer blank.

Yesterday I was doing the Paint activity from Amplify Desmos Math 7th grade. Had a student come up with a really neat challenge. I solved it using some number flexibility. How would you solve this? #iTeachMath

Super excited. Next week I’m teaching my Native American Beadwork and Geometry activity. The week after two teachers from our Indigenous Education Department are coming in to do a small breading project with them. Pictures will be posted. #iTeachMath

That would be awesome. I would definitely be interested in it. A great math community learns from each other.