Dan Wekselgreene

@dwekselgreene.bsky.social

Husband/father of 3, HS math teacher / Desmos Fellow, SF Bay Area, old school #MTBoS member, working to create math classes that build agency and ownership for marginalized students. Always drinking #tea. #BuildingThinkingClassrooms. #ITeachMath #EduSky

I just listened to this. What a fantastic set, and excellent sound quality. Just learned about this collection and looking forward to digging in.

Aadam Jacobs Collection Project@ajc-project.bsky.social · last yr.

The project hit a milestone today - our 1000th show from the Aadam Jacobs Collection - an uncirculated show from @phish.com from Nov. 9, 1990 at Lounge Ax. We have added a blog post to commemorate the show. Enjoy! @phish.net aadamjacobscollection.org/2025/07/01/p... archive.org/details/ajc0...

My 6 yo is always busy with projects. Currently, she is designing party hats for her dolls. I told her it was really impressive and she said “what? I’m just cutting out triangles, rolling them up, and taping them.” I asked her how she knew to do that and she said “I just saw it in my head.” #tmwyk

I was baking cupcakes with the 6 yo and (of course) did fraction work with her. I got out the 1, 1/2, and 1/4 cup measures and asked her questions about them, had her read the symbols, etc. I told her we needed 3/4 cup of sugar and asked her how we should do it.

My new favorite method for practicing #French: I read Percy Jackson in French and translate out loud to English in real time as my 10 yo follows along in the English text and corrects me as I go. I mean the first chapter is about vaporizing his math teacher by accident so we’re off to a good start!

A revelation that hit me during my conversation w/ @pernille.bsky.social is the tension & pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes needed to rescue kids from failing economic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. The demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing.

What I don't understand is how the United States spends 154 hours on math instruction each year, 20hrs more than the international avg, & 40hrs more than high scoring EU countries like Finland & England. In fact, you'd think there was an inverse correlation between instructional time and outcome. 😵‍💫

Chart from TIMMS 2019 showing instructional time spent on math where the United States spends 154 hours per year, easily the top quartile, and about 20 hours above the international average2023 TIMMS league tables for avg math achievement: Singapore, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, England, then further down, US, Israel, Azerbaijan, etc.
Thomas S. Dee@tomdee.bsky.social · 2y ago

The just-released TIMSS data put the United States' ongoing academic-recovery failures in an unflattering international context. #EduSky #EconSky www.the74million.org/article/four...