I’m putting out my shingle again as a math education consultant! I’m particularly interested in leveraging my experience as a curriculum designer and designer of professional development to support schools and school districts with their math curriculum.

New blog post: We need an education system davidwees.com/content/we-n... Excerpt: “[Professional learning is] like a race with people running in different directions and there’s no baton in sight.” #edchat #mtbos #edtech

New blog post: School Culture and Math Teaching davidwees.com/content/scho... #mathchat #edtech #edchat #mtbos

Reading "The Art of Coaching" by Jenny Bird & Sarah Gornall, and am struck by this observation: "Be alert for third-party coaching; remind the client the only person they can change is themselves."

Apparently a career 200 hitter just got 12 consecutive hits in a row, and a bunch of people are freaking out over how unlikely this event is. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM5I... for example. This is incorrect probabilitistic thinking. (1/9)

Here are four ways kids divided 2 brownies fairly with three people. What do you notice? What do you wonder? #mathchat #maththinking

A child is given 150-118 to solve. Why might they say this is 92? #mathchat #maththinking

New blog post: Teacher Evaluation or Teacher Growth? How might your school look different if everyone had a shared vision of where they were trying to go as a school and had the time to plan how to get there? davidwees.com/content/teac... #edublog #edchat #blogger

I had a middle school math joke, but it's pretty irrational.

Larry Ferlazzo@larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I had a pickleball joke but forgot it in the kitchen

At the School Leaders Meetup in Hong Kong learning from others about how they are successfully using AI in their schools. I'm a bit of an AI skeptic, but I'm always interested in learning and seeing if there are ways technology can be used productively. #toddlemeetup

Words are masks for ideas.

I'm now four weeks of using the #BTC routine with my students after seeing in action in a workshop with @peterliljedahl.bsky.social. Today all but one of my students was fully engaged in thinking. It is consistently working really well with my students!

Because @rob-baier.bsky.social won't stop bullying me, here's why I'm totally right about trapezoids having at least one pair of parallel sides: www.strongermath.com/trapezoids-a...

Sal Khan's career is very much a "right place right time" situation and he has not learned a single thing about teaching in all these years.

Did something fun early enough on the internet and got to have his opinions taken seriously forever.

Is there a community created pool of thin-slicing tasks for the Thinking Classroom model somewhere? #btc #mathed #mathsky

How are the fraction additions different? How are they similar? How are the visuals different? How are they similar? Which visual goes with which fraction addition and how do you know? #connectingreps #mathsky #mathchat

Here's a worksheet I gave students today. The idea is to reinforce integer operations (and a chip model) through solving equations. An example of what to produce for an answer is given for each type of problem, except the equations on the last page. docs.google.com/document/d/1... #mathed #mathsky

Solving Integer Equations Worksheet

Solving Integer Equations Worksheet Try to find the value of the ?. Two examples have been done for you. A x + 2 = 5 3 + 2 = 5 B C 2x + 2 = 8 2(3) + 2 = 8 D E F Try to find the value...

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Here's new #connectingrepresentations task I created and used a few days ago with my 7th graders. How are the number lines similar? How are they different? Which list of numbers goes with which number line, and how do you know? #mathed #mathchat #mathsky

I created a resource similar to the Completing the Square resource I created a few years ago for supporting students with "micro-discoveries" related to multiplying binomials. Check it out: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #mathed #mathsky

Multiplying Binomials

Multiplying Binomials 1. Write a quadratic expression in both x2 + bx + c and (x + h)2 form for each visual. One example is given. A B C x2 + 6x + 9 (x + 3)2 D E F 2. Write a qua...

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Any old #bcedchat folks have a lead on a veteran math history teacher??

Math Gnome@noamloyola.bsky.social · 12mo ago

BC has a grade 11 math history course!! Have any BC math educators on here taught this course? If so, what was your experience?

My son is looking for a volunteer speaker for a student event he is co-organizing meant to inspire and empower university student leaders. The event will be in Montreal, probably on September 20th.

How can we inspire educators to do the challenging work that is required to develop and extend their practice? What role do routines play in student learning? How do we help educators focus on the right metrics for learning? What role does technology play in student learning?

This diagram encapsulates for me the reason why formative assessment is so critical! It also helps justify the need for visual representations of mathematics to increase the pathways for understanding. #mathed #learning #communication

Oh goodie, customer service is going to get even worse.

Brendan Davey@brendandavey.bsky.social · last yr.

Yo, historians, what the actual ****? I've seen how LLMs handle "history." This is... not good. 🗃️

Hey everyone! I'm excited to report that I just moved to Hong Kong to work at the Canadian International School of Hong Kong as a math coach and head of department. I'm in the city and getting set up. So far, it's been a fun adventure. Does anyone know of any math coach networks in this area?

My wife, who is not yet a licensed teacher, wants to take a one-year online education degree that leads to certification, focused on inclusive education. Does such a program exist? If so, where?

A research study into "Practice-based pedagogies" shows noticeable improvement in their subjects' ability to elicit and use student thinking after a short intervention, during a small RCT: edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

Asking the UK mathematicians on BlueSky. What is your definition of a face? In North America, we use this definition in English: "a face is a flat surface (a planar region) that forms part of the boundary of a solid object." So for a cylinder, the two ends of the cylinder are faces. #ukmath #maths

New blog post: 239th Carnival of Mathematics! Recapping math/maths/mathEd content from April. #MTBoS #iTeachMath #MathSky #MathChat #RecreationalMath #MathsToday karendcampe.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/c...

Carnival Of Mathematics

Welcome to the 239th installment of the Carnival of Mathematics, a roundup of interesting mathematics content from April 2025. The Carnival is a monthly post hosted by a different blog each month. …

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