Jessie Oehrlein

@numberdance.bsky.social

The stratosphere is my favorite. I teach stats & math at Fitchburg State University. Arospec, she/her. Methodist. Texan/Oklahoman in the Northeast. Many sports, dance, books, roller coasters. jessoehrlein.github.io

I don't just want to list papers. I want to understand how people have thought about the problem and how this has evolved as our knowledge has increased. This helps situate my work into the larger arc of research. It almost always hints at interesting questions I hadn't thought of. 3/

In the new 2026 CSTA standards, each includes a "Students are not expected to" to help understand what the standard is not. So, what are students not expected to "understand", "apply" or "build"? "math" appears in 31 of the standards! In 27 of those, it appears after "Students are not expected to"

#MathsToday Using candy sharing on a grid as an exploration to start thinking about ocean GCMs works weirdly well! I thought maybe it would feel contrived (it's a really different set of "rules" for how things work), but it gave students a lot of room to think about how we build models.

#MathsToday bifurcations and hysteresis and snowball Earth in Climate & Chaos! Kind of a technical day, but I'm planning more play and exploration for the next couple of days. Bayes featured the Monty Hall problem but with Glensheep instead of goats.

For people that lack the experience/context I arrived to the US in 2014 in an F-1 visa and finished my program in exactly 5 years. Additionally I was under OPT for 1 year. That means 6 years total under F-1 My husband arrived in 2014. Was forced to master out in 2017. Worked in OPT 6mo 1/n

Mitch Keller@mitchkeller.phd · 3w ago

Inside Higher Ed covered it on Thursday when the regime announced they would publish the final rule on Friday, and I thought their reporting was good (although there are still some giant unanswered questions about matters for undergrad students). www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Anyone have favorite things to do with discrete dynamical systems (preferably without linear algebra)? Or favorite 1d systems for talking about bifurcations? (Logistic map coming later in the week, not yet.)