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Mathematician, researcher, educator, writer, parent, human (she/her/hers). #math #numeracy #poetry #humanisticmathematics #openaccess #socialjustice #books https://gkaraali.sites.pomona.edu https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ https://bookbunnies.blog

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Caramel reviews Favorite Children’s Stories from China and Tibet by Lotta Carswell Hume In these past few months Caramel has reviewed several books that collect together stories from various Asian traditions: Japanese Myths, Legends, and Folktales, Tamamo the Fox Maiden and Other Asia…

Caramel reviews Favorite Children’s Stories from China and Tibet by Lotta Carswell Hume bookbunnies.blog/2025/12/03/c... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

04.12.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marshmallow reviews Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins Marshmallow has already read and reviewed the three main books of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay. Then last October she reviewed The Hunger…

Marshmallow reviews Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/30/m... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

30.11.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love the "how the next DOJ is going to deal with it"…

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Caramel reviews Ultimate Spy by H. Keith Melton Today Caramel reviews Ultimate Spy by H. Keith Melton, published in 2002. As usual, Sprinkles is taking notes and asking questions. Caramel reviews Ultimate Spy by H. Keith Melton. Sprinkles: So wh…

Caramel reviews Ultimate Spy by H. Keith Melton bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/26/c... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

27.11.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marshmallow reviews Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying (A Guide for Kids and Teens) by Barbara Oakley, Terrence Sejnowski, and Alistair McConville Marshmallow occasionally reads and reviews books about how to be a good student and today she is writing about one such book: Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Yo…

Marshmallow reviews Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying by Barbara Oakley, Terrence Sejnowski & Alistair McConville bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/23/m... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

24.11.2025 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mathematics Beyond the Classroom This book explores teaching and learning mathematics beyond the classroom in out-of-school environments, providing sample lessons for educators.

This is finally available: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

21.11.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Mathematics Beyond the Classroom This book explores teaching and learning mathematics beyond the classroom in out-of-school environments, providing sample lessons for educators.

This is finally available: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

21.11.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Caramel reviews Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells A few months ago, Caramel reviewed All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. Today he reviews Artificial Condition, the second book in the Murderbot Diaries saga, written originally i…

Caramel reviews Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/19/c... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #readingisfun

20.11.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting suggestion.

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Marshmallow reviews The Light Eaters by ZoΓ« Schlanger Today Marshmallow reviews The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, a 2024 book by ZoΓ« Schlanger. Marshmallow reviews The Light Eater…

Marshmallow reviews The Light Eaters by ZoΓ« Schlanger bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/16/m... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #readingisfun

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Excellent question. I wish I had any answers….

15.11.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Caramel reviews Star Wars: Lost Stars by Claudia Gray Today Caramel is reviewing Star Wars: Lost Stars, written by Claudia Gray and published in 2015. As usual, Sprinkles is taking notes and asking questions. Caramel reviews Star Wars: Lost Stars by C…

Caramel reviews Star Wars: Lost Stars by Claudia Gray bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/12/c... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

13.11.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#complicitmedia that demanded Hillary answer for Bill's blowjob gonna interrogate Melania or Ivanka about the pedophilia?

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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

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Marshmallow reviews The Awakening by Kate Chopin Today Marshmallow reviews a classic novel originally published in 1899: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Marshmallow reviews The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Marshmallow’s Quick Take: If you like re…

Marshmallow reviews The Awakening by Kate Chopin bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/09/m... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #readingisfun

10.11.2025 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are still getting paid, right? Doesn't that make them welfare queens (and kings of course)?

08.11.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Caramel reviews Darkstalker: The Graphic Novel by Tui T. Sutherland and Jake Parker Caramel has always been an avid fan of Tui T. Sutherland’s Wings of Fire series. He is also a lover of graphic novels. So he has already reviewed the graphic novelizations of the first eight …

Caramel reviews Darkstalker: The Graphic Novel by Tui T. Sutherland and Jake Parker bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/05/c... #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids #graphicnovel #WingsofFire #booksky

06.11.2025 06:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One word: Elon.

05.11.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marshmallow reviews Spooky Classics for Children: A Companion Reader, as told by Jim Weiss, and with Dramatizations by Chris Bauer This week both of the younger book bunnies wanted to review spooky books to honor Halloween 2025. So on Wednesday, Caramel reviewed a cute picture book about a zombie and a brain. And today, Marshm…

Marshmallow reviews Spooky Classics for Children: A Companion Reader, as told by Jim Weiss, and with Dramatizations by Chris Bauer bookbunnies.blog/2025/11/02/m... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

03.11.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

β€˜Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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This is definitely the sense I am getting from my students. There’s a craving for analog experiences, for presence, for humanity, for a recognition that they have unique value to our future that is irreplaceable by automation. There’s a hunger for time off-screen and uninterrupted by tech.

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Caramel reviews Zombie and Brain Are Friends by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic and Laan Cham It is that most spooky time of the year, and here in the book bunnies house, we are getting ready for Halloween. So Caramel thought it would be appropriate to talk about a book with zombies in it w…

Caramel reviews Zombie and Brain Are Friends by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic and Laan Cham bookbunnies.blog/2025/10/29/c... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids #Halloween2025

30.10.2025 06:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Happy Halloween!

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A Student’s Right to Refuse Generative AI Elizabeth Palumbo, Syracuse University Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I’m sitting at a desk in a college classroom in Upstate New York. It’s nearing the end of the fall semester of my seni…

Was just filing this away:
A Student’s Right to Refuse Generative AI – Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

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Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

β€œTo leave our students to their own devices β€” which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies β€” is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... #AI #reading #writing #philsky

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Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

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There’s nothing given or innate to humans about our ability to read and write so we should preserve the conditions for learning these things, like universities…

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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics - an online-only, open access, peer reviewed journal | Current Journals | Claremont Colleges Journal of Humanistic Mathematics - an online-only, open access, peer reviewed journal published by the Claremont Colleges Library.

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 850K full-text downloads of our content - why not check us out? scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ #math #openaccess #mathart

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Spirit Halloween bag titled "Simplifying fractions" and it says 16/64=1/4 with the 6s crossed off.

Spirit Halloween bag titled "Simplifying fractions" and it says 16/64=1/4 with the 6s crossed off.

Wear this on Halloween to scare your math teachers

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Sprinkles reviews Flatland: A Journey of Many Dimensions – The Movie Edition by Edwin A. Abbott Today Sprinkles reviews a 2008 edition of a unique classic: Flatland: A Journey of Many Dimensions – The Movie Edition, credited to β€œEdwin A. Abbott, with Thomas Banchoff and the Filmma…

Sprinkles reviews Flatland: A Journey of Many Dimensions - The Movie Edition by Edwin A. Abbott bookbunnies.blog/2025/10/26/s... #booksky #books #bookreviews #reviews #kidsbooks #kidslit #readingisfun #booksforkids

27.10.2025 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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