My first picture book is out: What If It's Mine Now? It is about my own corgis each trying to make sense of the world in their own way, with mathematical thinking at the heart of every story in this series. 📚 amazon.com/dp/B0H8WSGXHS?…
Patty Stephens
@pattystephens.bsky.social
K-12 Math Consultant & #DesmosFellow. Founder of @AcutelyCurious. Helping educators ask better questions about math, AI & learning. Author of The What If Books. Corgi mom • Kayaker #mathsky http://acutelycurious.com http://thewhatifbooks.com
AI can generate a lesson in seconds. It can't tell you if it's right for these students today. Teaching is hundreds of judgment calls a day: - What's the misconception? - Struggle, or step in? - Real thinking, or busywork? What's a call AI can't make for you?
"I'm not a math person." I've heard this more times than I can count. And it tells me something — not about math ability, but about math identity. New post: pattypapers.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/e... #math #iteachmath
Extending the Invitation
What a familiar disclaimer reveals about math identity I was cofacilitating a professional development session for special education teachers who teach math. It was the kind of day that feels produ…
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Contextualized procedure is not the same thing as problem solving. Most story problems have already made the important mathematical decisions for students. That's worth understanding. New post at Patty Papers 👇 pattypapers.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/a...
A Story Problem Isn’t Problem Solving
There’s a task that appears in nearly every math classroom, at nearly every grade level, in nearly every curriculum. It goes something like this: Marcus has 48 trading cards. He gives 15 to h…
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Three AI tools analyzed a stack of exit tickets. All three made the same mistake. One teacher caught it immediately. That gap is the whole story. #AIinEducation #TeacherExpertise 🔗 pattypapers.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/t...
The Teacher in the Room
What a stack of exit tickets can teach us about AI — and about teaching A teacher I work with handed three AI tools the same job last week. Sixteen scanned exit tickets. A lesson goal — solving sys…
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From Patty Papers: The Completion Problem pattypapers.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/the… #math #iteachmath #mathsky #edusky
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From Patty Papers: A Worksheet in Google Forms is Still a Worksheet. pattypapers.com #mathsky #edusky #iteachmath
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Separating Prime Cuts of Math Education and Instructional Technology from Common Mystery Meat
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New #SlowRevealGraph: "E-Books Still No Match for Printed Books" Estimated share fo the population in selected countries that purchased an e-book/printed book in 2025 (in %)
Across the World, More Readers Prefer Printed Books to eBooks
Across the World, Readers Prefer Printed Books to eBooks
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30+ years in math education and I'm still finding better ways to think about activity design. I created a thing and think it's the real deal. Try it for free. 👇 #mathed #iteachmath #TeacherAppreciationDay
Acutely Curious@acutelycurious.bsky.social · 4mo agoThat math activity you've used for years? It could be so much more. The Activity Makeover Tool takes any worksheet, warm-up, or card sort → 3 concrete ways to reimagine it as a richer digital experience. Free. No sign-up. acutelycurious.com #mathchat #mathed #MTBoS
30 years in K-12 Math ed. This is what I built. Retweet if you know a math teacher who needs this. acutelycurious.com #TeacherAppreciationWeek
Acutely Curious@acutelycurious.bsky.social · 4mo agoMost digital math activities look interactive but ask students to do nothing more than click the right answer. That's not interactivity. That's digitized paper. Two free tools to help math teachers design better 👇 acutelycurious.com #MTBoS #iteachmath #TeacherAppreciationWeek
Made with love (and equations). 💕 💌 Explore the graph, and personalize your own to share: www.desmos.com/calculator/y... #mathsky #iteachmath
Happy Valentine's!! - Ss got to spread the #MathPlay 🧮 love via @desmos.com 🥰 🔗 mathogram.com #ITeachMath #MTBoS #MathSky #STEM #EdTech #MathsToday #EduSky #Math #ValentinesDay
First day of high school calculus class next week. Working on a questionnaire to start class. What questions would you ask? My current list of questions comes from longtailsofinterest.blogspot.com/2010/08/calc... @calcdave.bsky.social
Calculus Questionnaire
I gave a questionnaire to my calculus courses (one section of honors calculus, one of AP calculus AB, one of AP calculus BC) to get their mi...
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These mitten hidato puzzles were a special request from a teacher looking for a winter-themed logic puzzle. I figure they are perfect for this bout of cold weather we are experiencing! mathequalslove.net/mitten-hidat... #mtbos #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom #mathsky #edusky
Another self-checking #googlesheet builds 24 different snowmen as students enter answers. All programmed for you - just add your own questions & (matchable) answers! #edusky #iteachmath #mtbos examples here: tiny.cc/snowmanexample & tiny.cc/snowmanexample2 template here: tiny.cc/snowmantemplate
“The Ring” a full aurora arch over a lake with little cottage in Iceland #bluesky #photography #landscape #mountains #art #nature #landscapephotography
Inspired by the Snowglobe post by @pattystephens.bsky.social, and stealing a bit of code from it, in this version the snow falls and piles up. There's some great cleverness in her Desmos code, btw! I learned quite a bit from her and from making my own version. www.desmos.com/calculator/j...
FallingSnow Pts
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Can you find a Pythagorean Triple containing... • exactly one multiple of 5? • exactly two multiples of 5? • three multiples of 5? • no multiples of 5? Any conjectures? #iTeachMath #MathSky
This is how my cat greets me every time I walk in the door.
name of a math course you'd enroll in? I'll start❗ #iTeachMath ♾️ #MathSky • mathematics of scams
To my #thinkingclassrooms colleagues: What is a small micro-move that you’ve recently discovered that gets Ss thinking and/or taking more responsibility for their learning? #iteachmath
