Michael Freeman

We're excited to release stemcoding.github.io which has an activity explorer where you can find all 44 of our activities! Check it out! #iteachphysics #iteachmath #AAPTSM25 #datascience #CS4All

Appraiser touching a coat. Caption: coat that if touched loses all value $0-$0

Model plane. Caption: plane from when people were smaller $22,000-$30,000 (in big people money)

A mirror in which you can see the photographer. Caption: photographer trapped in mirror. $5,000-$6,000

Appraiser and man both laughing, looking at some weird bowls. Caption: bowls that make you laugh $350-$500

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

v4 Animated inside out Pythagoras

Hello #iTeachMath friends! I saved this @desmos.com graph last week around pythagorean triple day but don't know who created it.
Does anyone recognize this #geometry animation? Thanks!
Also tagging #MathsToday
www.desmos.com/geometry/czh...

Physics teaching resources Spreadsheets of resources Both searchable by topic, grade level, course, with suggestions about how to set them up, what to learn… (a warning may come up – this is new, I’m workin…

A benefit of having my website is that there is a place to put everything.

My physics resources are here, and I will gradually upload the things on my laptop and the things in my brain that could be of use to this section.

itsalearningcurve.education/physics-teac...

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#iTeachMath #MathSky

The graph of a hyperbolic paraboloid.

A sketch of the graph of a hyperbolic paraboloid 🤩 (z = x^2 - y^2)

#EduSky

first two questions of our monthly anonymous check-in survey

last two questions of our monthly anonymous check-in survey

Once a month I give this anonymous Google Form survey to all my classes + then turn around and share the results with them the following week

Adapted from what @jimmayers.bsky.social does in his room, having this monthly "pulse check" has been a game-changer

(Especially the debrief conversations!)

How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.

Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” Cooper has the most popular history newsletter on Substack.

His Nazi-obsessed background is far more extreme than previously reported.

Demo site page with full details on this demo and how to build it yourself here:
demos.smu.ca/demos/astron...

Also includes caveats about building your own "stars" and using common measurement apps.

#iTeachPhysics

You can get a summary of my upcoming chapter on computing in general education physics, where we got music majors to program physics stuff with python AND THEY LIKED IT! Computing isn't just for STEM majors. 🎢

dannycaballero.info/posts/iop-bo...

YouTube video by SMUPhysics How to Find Exoplanets (in the classroom)

New on YouTube:
"How to Find Exoplanets (in the classroom)"

youtu.be/rDNkVehVAP4

#iTeachPhysics

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.

No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.

one of the problems with letter grades is sometimes they tell you how much a student learned

But also they might be telling you how much a student cheated

Or they might not tell you that the student struggled for reasons unrelated to the material and actually they know it fine

A very basic problem with centrism is that by definition it means you are willing to listen to both sides. One of those sides is nazis. It requires you listening to a nazi and going "he makes some good points."

"Wait, you're a centrist? So you like, listen to Nick Fuentes? Willingly?"

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

a “no smoking” and “no durian” sign

Still mad at the hotel in Bangkok for banning my nighttime routine of durian and a cigarette in bed

The hall of mirrors at Versailles is about 8,000 sqft; the largest room in the palace, the Gallery of Great Battles, is like 16,000 sqft.

Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful

I think you can x it out before posting

Hmm testing: www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

Watched this a few times now and found it striking to see how signing is not a substitute for speech or drawing, but rather its own mode of communication with particular affordances specific to it.

🧪

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

More good news:

"Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million *increase* to the budget of the NIH on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending."
www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

A post from Jaju Pierogi that says "In solidarity we will also not be serving pierogi to Dershowitz."

Pierogi makers united against fascism

Text detailing how MSU isn’t accepting grad applications for astronomy on their website

Sign of the times- Michigan State, one of the biggest astronomy programs in the USA, is not accepting ANY applications for its graduate program this year 😖

🔭🧪🎢

#iTeachPhysics

#MathSky #iTeachMath

Smooth-rolling knots!

At @markpauly.bsky.social’s lab, we found a way to optimize knots for smooth rolling.

I presented our work at Bridges 2025 – the conference for #MathArt.

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