Dilip Barman

I'm thinking of asking prealgebra & algebra students this challenge question. AMC questions are generally tough, but some can be easy. I might change this to something sneaky like having 170 cans with the top row having two cans. #mtbos #iteachmath #mathisfun artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.p...

How U.S. Students Perform at Basic Math and Reading Only 3–4% of students have achieved advanced reading skills.

From Visual Capitalist: "In this graphic, we show how Grade 8 students perform in reading and math in 2024, based on data from The Nation’s Report Card." #mtbos #iteachmath

Yesterday in algebra we read from L.Meitner book www.marissamoss.com/book/the-wom... & in level 5 fr 'Talia's Codebook for Mathletes' (both coincid. by @marissamosswriter.bsky.social). I love #WODB 'Which One Doesn't Belong?' ages 3-hSchool. talkingmathwithkids.com/wodb/ #mtbos #iteachmath #mathical

I'm excited the fall quarter of my #mathisfun 1st & 2nd grade #mathCircle at Stanford Univ. began last week. We're currently working on counting; I'm delighted that one child did an optional problem and found all 242 ways to make $1 with quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies! #mtbos #iteachmath

Many got the first two questions - I was very happily surprised that three children figured out that the numbers along that one diagonal are Square Numbers! one 1, three 3s, five 5s, seven 7s, etc. Wow!

In my level 2 class today I'm going to start with a challenging warmup problem about patterns in numbers written in bigger and bigger squares. I bet most will get the first and maybe the second, but few if any will get the last one. #mathisfun #mtbos #iteachmath

RazzMatazz® Muscadine Hybrid Grapes As the first continuous fruiting grape, RazzMatazz® Muscadine Hybrid grapes will set blooms and fruit all summer.

Today at DurhamFoodCoop was RazzMatazz® grape we learned about yrs ago & enjoyed at Union Grove Farms in Chapel Hill,NC & avail at @weaverstreetmarket.bsky.social. Tasty/unique/high in polyphenols, now avail fr another NC farm at DurhamCoop txmg.org/hendersonmg/... uniongrovefarm.com/mighty-musca...

What great #vegan deals & finds today at the Durham Coop Market durham.coop - 32oz Dr. Bronner's cardboard box liquid soap refill for $11 ... a student's family sent me Táche pistachio nut milk some months ago and now I see the Durham Coop has it! www.drbronner.com/collections/... pistachiomilk.com

We're excited to be at the NC Symphony for the music of John Williams!
#johnWilliams #NCsymphony Program:
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We love eating at all #vegan Fiction Kitchen! thefictionkitchen.com

We did a really #mathisfun unit in prealgebra on sum of factors & sum of geometric sequences. Level 4 had 2 new students - we explored exponents. Ms. Felder did amazing geometry with her students in the adjacent class @trianglemath.bsky.social . I got a sweet card from a parent! #mtbos #iteachmath

Make a 3-4-5 right triangle and inscribe a circle (make a circle that is just big enough to touch the sides of the triangle). The area of that circle is exactly πr² or π square units! #mtbos

Autostrada Pizza and Panini @carrboronc.bsky.social - good #vegan selection including vegan cheese autostradacarrboro.com

Oblations at @carrboronc.bsky.social #carrboroMusicFestival went from jazzy to hard guitar-screaming rock and now to jazz fusion

Oblations oblationsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/oblati... www.tiktok.com/@oblations0 at @carrboronc.bsky.social Music Festival #carrboroMusicFestival - jazzy / progressive rock sounding duo

Oblations oblationsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/oblati... at @carrboronc.bsky.social Music Festival #carrboroMusicFestival - jazzy duo

Pretty piano vocal soul-inspired music by Mark Gabriel Little www.markgabriellittle.com at @carrboronc.bsky.social Music Festival

Mark Gabriel Little www.markgabriellittle.com at @carrboronc.bsky.social Music Festival

I love annual @carrboronc.bsky.social Carrboro Music Festival carrboromusicfestival.com/311/Carrboro... - app 100 bands of different genres spread around downtown Carrboro-all free! I used to regularly go but now teach Sundays; I may catch today's end #musicFestival photos.dilip.info/Music/Carrbo...

We had good #mathisfun this AM at Chapel Hill #mathCircle continuing 1st-3rd graders exploring counting diagonals in polygons. We looked at the ‘lazy mayors’ way (every city builds additional roads - mayors don’t coordinate to avoid duplication) after reviewing n-3, n-3 countdown #mtbos #iteachmath

Dances to close NC Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival asia.unc.edu/event/jlf2025

UNC professors Afroz Taj and John Caldwell closing lovely discussion with 2nd generation Booker Prize winning author Kiran Desai at NC Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival

Kiran Desai at NC Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival on her new ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ wrt growing up with her mother, renowned writer Anita Desai - she found it remarkable how similar settings sitting on her veranda they both witnessed

Kiran Desai at NC Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival on her new ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’

Kiran Desai at NC Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival discussing her new book ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ - reflecting on migration, calling folks ‘the other’, ‘dogs see dogs, babies see babies, migrants see migrants’; ‘we asked for workers they sent us human beings’

Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai with Suketu Mehta at Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival asia.unc.edu/event/jlf2025
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suketu_... - it was a 20-year journey writing this new book- ‘a big globalized Desi romance’

Writer Suketu Mehta, who gave an interesting talk at the conference last year, talking w/Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai (I loved her fun ‘ Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’) at NC Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival asia.unc.edu/event/jlf2025
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With celebrated author William Dalrymple, author of ‘The Golden Road’ at the 2nd NC Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival asia.unc.edu/event/jlf2025

Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival asia.unc.edu/event/jlf2025 - Kathleen DuVal, UNC History professor reading from her ‘Native Nations’ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575441...

I’m excited to be at the 2nd NC Jaipur Literature Festival #jlf #jaipurLiteratureFestival asia.unc.edu/event/jlf2025 - Kathleen DuVal, UNC History professor conversing on ‘Native Nations’ with Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Native American Studies professor