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@matherinep.bsky.social

Queer math teacher from Colorado. Interested in making math accessible to all. Currently teaching newcomers. (she/her) #mtbos #edusky #mathsky

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TODOS 2026 Conference, Call for Proposals, www.todos-math.org/home/conference/, Proposals due Nov 2. Includes TODOS en Comunidad logo and hashtags #MathEquity #TODOS2026 with leaf and human figures in green and blue.โ€

TODOS 2026 Conference, Call for Proposals, www.todos-math.org/home/conference/, Proposals due Nov 2. Includes TODOS en Comunidad logo and hashtags #MathEquity #TODOS2026 with leaf and human figures in green and blue.โ€

โฐ Deadline Nov 2! Share your voice at TODOS 2026
Rooting Mathematics in Humanity ๐ŸŒฑ
Submit now: todos-math.org/home/conference
#TODOS2026 #MathEquity #EduSky #iTeachMath

Learn more & submit ๐Ÿ‘‰ www.todos-math.org/home/confere...

#TODOS2026 #MathEquity #EduSky #iTeachMath

21.10.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Who has meaningful two-way tables they've used with high schoolers to do probability? I'm wanting to show my students real data that tells them about the world. Data about sleep, video games, politics, culture, jobs?
#iteachmath #mtbos

21.10.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Present Edge โ€“ KGNU Community Radio

I had the pleasure of being a guest on The Present Edge on @kgnuradio.bsky.social last night. Playing some (quasi)classical music with my old friend Katherine @matherinep.bsky.social

Listen back here:

kgnu.org/shows/the-pr...

12.08.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Study: Gender pay gap began for Wisconsin teachers after collective bargaining eliminated Shortly after then-Gov. Scott Walker stripped collective bargaining rights, women public school teachers began making less income than men teachers.

Join your teacher's union!
inthepublicinterest.org/study-gender...

05.08.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This looks like a wonderful opportunity for high school math students interested in working with real-world data!

05.08.2025 04:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our first day is next week! Share any ideas you have for emerging English language learners in 10th grade to start talking about math on the first day of school...

29.07.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I know a lot of people who use Duolingo.

Teachers work their asses off to educate, foster creativity and independence and support your children as the individuals they are.

I urge you to reconsider and let your money/data point do the talking.

23.05.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I appreciate the breakdown about Chat-GPT/AI in an accessible way, and through an issue that young people care about.

14.05.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do any Colorado teachers have opinions about the #PERA elections??

07.05.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We studied parabolas earlier this semester in 10th grade math. I visited the Very Large Array this weekend and showed this picture to my classes from space.com. Was very stoked that one kid saw it and said โ€œParabolic!โ€ (Second pic is mine from one of the displays.)

07.05.2025 04:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I turned my most boring math lesson into one of my most engaging ones. Here's how:

23.04.2025 00:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Six Strategic Pen-and-Paper Games (from a Strange and Bottomless Mind) Pencil, paper, and a little flash of genius.

I am both proud and grumpy that I taught my 8 year old nephew some of these games today and he beat me in most of them. mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020/04/22/s...

20.04.2025 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Besides the IM curriculum for A1/G/A2, what are other good problem-based math curriculum for HS? Ones that follow the experience first, formalize later model. I also know of Math/Stats/Calc Medic.

What else is out there?

16.04.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anybody on here run a math club at their high school? I'm going to start one at my school next year and would love to chat with you! #iteachmath #mtbos

16.04.2025 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Add me! I teach 10th grade math in Colorado.

16.04.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gov Polis responds to the protest at the Capitol yesterday to protest cuts in education funding. ๐Ÿ™„

21.03.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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California Math Council Central Symposium
March 7 & 8, 2025
Bakersfield, CA

Register: www.cmcmath.org/cmc-...

#iTeachMath
@cmcmath.bsky.social @CAMathCouncil

11.02.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Red Cards / Tarjetas Rojas | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | ILRC All people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have certain rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution. The ILRCโ€™s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend them...

A great resource to hand out to students. Many of them have no idea what their rights are as an immigrant.
www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

31.01.2025 22:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have so many students who are so worried about deportations. How are y'all checking in with students and supporting them amongst the chaos?

29.01.2025 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh my gosh thatโ€™s wild!! Luckily our outages have all just been one day at a time. So I can deal but itโ€™s definitely frustrating!

13.01.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have any other public K-12 teachers in the US been dealing with district Internet outages this year? Today is the third time this school year my school has NO internet. I canโ€™t even make hand written worksheets for the kids cuz we canโ€™t log into the printers to make copies. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

13.01.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our school is having an issue with our small group of Rohingya-speaking students because we have no way to communicate with their parents. Rohingya is mostly a spoken language so we can't use google translate and the district has no interpreters who speak Rohingya. Anyone else dealing with this?

13.12.2024 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely!

29.11.2024 01:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Does anyone else work at a big high school with low attendance rates? Anything youโ€™ve done that has helped get the kids into class?

22.11.2024 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I would love to connect with any other folks who are teaching high school math to newcomers who have recently arrived in the US! #mtbos #iteachmath

14.11.2024 19:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Linocut of Sophie Germain (a young woman in with a collar with bow, under a dark dress, with a ribbon tied around her neck, long hair with centre part, half tied up with a ribbon in her hair). She is printed in dark blue with her own words about Fermat's Last Theorem in her own script carved into her hair and dress). Behind her in lavender is a grid of Chladni figures.

Linocut of Sophie Germain (a young woman in with a collar with bow, under a dark dress, with a ribbon tied around her neck, long hair with centre part, half tied up with a ribbon in her hair). She is printed in dark blue with her own words about Fermat's Last Theorem in her own script carved into her hair and dress). Behind her in lavender is a grid of Chladni figures.

Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist & philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 โ€“ 1831), known as Sophie. ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿก๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐ŸŽข๐Ÿงฎ #histsci She taught herself mathematics using books in her father's library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre & Gauss, ๐Ÿงต1

01.04.2024 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 110    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

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