Alayne Armstrong

UH Mānoa math students spark STEM excitement at Pearl City Elementary | University of Hawaiʻi System News The activities were designed to make math and science concepts approachable and fun for keiki and their ʻohana.

STEM math night -

How a UTC mathematician is helping elephants find their way home | UTC News Dr. Lakmali Weerasena, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, spent her professional development leave designing elephant corridors in…

When applied math helps elephants -

How voice training can help teachers improve wellbeing in the classroom Teachers can create supportive, optimal learning environments through a nuanced use of voice in the classroom.

Take care of your voice. theconversation.com/how-voice-tr...

Truth and Reconciliation, Ten Years On | HESA Today is September 30th, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. It has been just over ten … Continued

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and so in the blog I join forces with my colleague Mark Solomon to talk about how universities and colleges are doing with respect to TRC. It's a mixed picture.

Patty Krawec's 'must-read' books to reflect on the Indigenous experience in North America | CBC Books Sept. 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author and activist recommends 18 titles to read today and beyond.

A TRC Day listicle for CBC. Enough books here to keep you going through the winter.

"These books helped me understand the willfulness of that not knowing and peoples' willingness to believe other stories about those schools."

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Grounding Math Lessons in Picture Books Starting lessons with a read-aloud can boost engagement and inspire students to make personal connections to math concepts.

Grounding Math Lessons in Picture Books

Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math | Quanta Magazine The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation.

Busy beaver numbers -

Maths ‘aha!’ moments can be predicted before they happen Researchers developed a model that predicts when mathematicians are on the cusp of a breakthrough, something not even they are capable of.

Aha moments for mathematicians -

The poetry of ancient math - www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

How Should We Teach Math? General and Special Ed. Researchers Don't Agree The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new study.

How should we teach math?

This mutant Venus flytrap mysteriously lost its ability to “count” The mutant can no longer decode calcium signature that causes trap to shut quickly.

Apparently Venus Fly Traps can count -

The mathematics of “are we there yet?” Will the Marvel Cinematic Universe outlast human civilization? Unlikely, but not impossible.

The mathematics of “are we there yet?”

In 'Lost Tablets,' Jan van Schaik Constructs Deteriorating Architectural Sculptures with LEGO “The first one I made, I made by accident, like a three-dimensional doodle,” says Melbourne-based architect and artist Jan van Schaik about the sculpture that founded his Lost Tablets series. Now…

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Racial bias affects early math education. Researchers are trying to stop that Researchers say more resources, teacher awareness needed to combat racial bias in math lessons.

The Racial Justice in Early Math project [Image of child's arm and some red and white counters on a desktop]

The World’s Oldest Homework: A Look at Babylonian Math Homework from 4,000 Years Ago Homework has lately become unfashionable, at least according to what I've heard from teachers in certain parts of the United States. That may complicate various fairly long-standing educational…

Even ancient Babylonians had math homework - [Image - a woman, a cat and a really really old clay tablet]

Math Fellowship Rooted in Racial Justice Supports Early Educators The Racial Justice in Early Math Teaching Fellowship is helping early educators make math accessible and engaging for young children.

Math Fellowship Rooted in Racial Justice Supports Early Educators [Image of child and teacher using Rekenrek manipulative]

The Linkfest The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I've found -- links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me. Full, free...

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A Hawk in New Jersey Figured Out Traffic Signals and Used Them to Hunt An urban raptor learns to hunt with help from traffic signals and a mental map.

Look! It's a bird! At a stop light [seriously, that's what the image is] [courtesy of Clive Thompson's Linkfest - and I'll post that link in a comment below]

Cognitive bridge between geometric and numerical learning in monkeys | PNAS Educational research highlights strong developmental links between numerical and spatial cognition in humans, often shaped by cultural tools like t...

Children build math skills on a “cognitive bridge” between space & number. But where does it come from? Our new study finds monkeys transfer learning and abstractions across geometry & numerosity, revealing the evolutionary roots of basic math development. 🧪🧠

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Could Play Boost Students’ Math Performance? - EdSurge News Research has linked long term development of math skills with certain kinds of play. For some researchers, it’s clear that American students don’t ...

The importance of mingling math and play - [Image - two young children sitting on the floor playing with block-like toys]

Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time | Quanta Magazine By mathematically proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.

Why can't time flow in reverse -

Order to chaos: The fascinating math that all pedestrians need to know Have you ever wondered why walking from point A to B can be easy in some places, and incredibly frustrating in others? Well, scientists were curious about it too, and have now worked out the…

Math for pedestrians - [Image - view of pedestrian crosswalk from above]

What to Do When Your Lesson Goes Kaput Teacher-tested strategies for handling instructional snafus—including when to call it quits on a lesson and regroup.

Recovering when a lesson falls flat -

What Can a Cell Remember? | Quanta Magazine A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory…

Forgotten studies from the early 20th century are helping scientists probe how and whether individual cells can learn and remember.

Art exhibit at #MAAthFest. Wonderful dodo-cahedron by Andrea Hawksley. Read about poly-fill-hedra at: archive.bridgesmathart.org/2022/bridges...

Why Legos Could Actually Be A Child's Best Math Tutor A study involving over 500 students found that kids who participated in a six-week Lego-based program made measurable gains in both spatial thinking and mathematics compared to classmates who…

SPAtial Cognition to Enhance mathematical learning -[Image - young child playing with Lego blocks]

Vocabulary and reading a part of learning math too - fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

Took a rectangle for a spin (4 times). Neon curves collided, corners aligned — and out of the chaos, a square stitched itself into the void. Math weaving its own frame. #MathArt #ITeachMath

Dinosaur No Four in a Row Puzzles

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