Chris Hunter
@chrishunter.bsky.social
Former secondary math teacher • Current K-12 Numeracy Helping Teacher, Surrey Schools • President, BCAMT • #MTBoS
New #tmwyk! If you've been following #vehiclechat (or if you've been puzzled by it), here's some more depth and background. talkingmathwithkids.com/blog/on-vehi...
On vehicles and the meanings of words | Talking Math With Your Kids
The following is an extended excerpt of a cover letter for Is It a Vehicle?, a book I have play-tested many hundreds of times in a wide range of situations over the last five-plus years and not yet fo...
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New Blog Post: Inputs & Outputs Reflecting on a session with Amy Lucenta and Grace Kelemanik at NCTM 2025, examining areas of cognition and micro-routines for engagement of all students.
Inputs and Outputs
I recently returned from NCTM in Atlanta. It was a beautiful week of learning and connection (and late night karaoke -- priorities). "Let's See What You're Saying." On Friday, I attended a session with Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta entitled "Engage all students in mathematical ideas and processes by planning from the margins in." (It was predictably brilliant; I love…
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Lovely collection of Same & Different prompts for high school from @karencampe.bsky.social!
Karen Campe@karencampe.bsky.social · 11mo agoEnjoy! All the images from my 2 blog posts on "Same & Different" are in the google drive. Here's the main post, also check out the "calculus edition" karendcampe.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/s...
By revealing graphs piece by piece, teachers can build student curiosity and guide them to more effectively make sense of data! 📊 #DataLiteracy #EduSky #MathSky
The Power of Slow Reveal Graphs
Teachers can leverage students’ curiosity to explore visual representations of data in an engaging way.
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Don't forget about the 100+ free challenging tasks for secondary math teachers at www.map.mathshell.org/lesso... There are around 20 per grade level.
I'm having a blast revisiting Estimation 180 tasks. My next attempt: Cheeseballs day 207. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... If you missed 206...it's there too. #estimation180 #iteachmath #mtbos
My Attempts at Estimation 180 tasks - YouTube
Andrew estimates tasks that he has not seen in years.
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🚨Attention #Algebra Ts, are you looking for ideas to review for a final exam❓🤔Check out this @geogebra.org collection of resources: interactive, engaging, and great for #MathPlay 🧮 🔗👇 www.geogebra.org/m/bmyse2ca #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathSky #MathsToday #STEM #ElemMathChat #EdTech #EdChat #EduSky
New lesson added to our free lesson library! __The Tax Collector__ This is an expanded writeup of my original @nytimes.com Numberplay writeup from 2015. Features a tie-in to my more recent @ted-ed.bsky.social riddle too! Great for grades 4 - 10. mathforlove.com/lesson/tax-c...
The Tax Collector (aka The Tarot Card Riddle) - Math For Love
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Did the Dog vs People Names scatter plot today with a room full of k-12 computer science teachers, and WOW, the discussion we had! 🤓 #slowrevealgraphs
Jenna Laib@jennalaib.bsky.social · last yr.Cost per pound of vehicles compared with per pound of types of cheese Cost (in USD $) per pound of Vehicles compared with per pound of Types of Cheesegraph by Andrew McCalip/Norma Gordon; slow reveal by Norma Gordon (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar…
One of those heart-FULL teaching days: New post: open.substack.com/pub/fawnnguy...
Dot Paper Task
A low-tech task with high-level thinking
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Happy Friday, everyone! Same old me, but my blog has a new home: fawnnguyen.substack.com/p/new-blog-h... Please come by to visit when you have a moment! #MTBoS #iteachmath
A Great Day of Teaching—and a New Home for the Blog
Hey friends,
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[New Post] Ontario Math Links-My favourite #math related links from this week: ontariomath.blogspot.com/2025/05/math... links&help from @mrvalencia24.bsky.social @comapmath.bsky.social @openmiddle.com @robertkaplinsky.com @howiehua.bsky.social @unsolvedmre.bsky.social #MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath
Dynamic window size in @desmos.com means that we only need 1 parabola now! Hooray! www.desmos.com/calculator/z...
same parabola
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Canucks have made marketing misstep after marketing misstep over the past decade...but never done anything like this
Join me for "Multiplication: More Than Repeated Addition and Times Tables" at the 2025 @mypita.bsky.social Spring Conference in Squamish on May 9!
With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.
This year, I joined NCSS (social studies) as part of my registration for their national conference. (I presented about slow reveal graphs!) Today, their journal arrived. What a beautiful surprise to see an article from fellow math educator/SS enthusiast @mathillustrated.bsky.social! 🤩
I'm not crying, you're crying. chrishunter.ca/2017/11/05/o...
The Gr8 Chase Is Over! www.desmos.com/calculator/t... (From 5 years ago… chrishunter.ca/2021/10/08/o...) #MTBoS #iTeachMath
#MathsToday Today was day 1 of logarithms in #MHF4U so I presented students with this, inspired by James Tanton.
Made fruitcake from an old recipe that makes one large (8x8), one medium (6x6) and one small (4x4) cake. How would you turn this into a math problem? #mtbos #iteachmath
And I must protest the statement in the "Integrating AI into the Arts" lesson that "Digital tools are 'green,' making them environmentally friendly from a climate justice and sustainability perspective". They may be inclusive but they are not environmentally friendly. earth.org/the-green-di...
The Real Environmental Impact of AI | Earth.Org
In this article, we delve into the environmental impact of AI, exploring associated problems including emissions and e-waste.
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This is the coolest, strangest thing you will watch (and likely re-watch over and over) today
Michael Freeman@afreeparticle.com · 2y ago🎢 Relative motion illusion Video Description: A basketball game on FOX. The camera is following a player in a white jersey, and there is a scrolling advertisement moving at the same speed. A seated player in red moves backward relative to everything else.
Applications of simultaneous equations might be my favourite topic. There are just so many fun problem types! We did these Don Steward beauties in Y10 #MathsToday.
