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I think the threading on my server means it's easier to view the whole thread directly at https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/115524576264052792

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#education #mathematics #math #didactics #pedagogy

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Attached: 1 image 1/10 #MathsMonday This #Mathematics article came across my feed, about how #Maths #teachers teach #Math - https://teamone.msuurbanstem.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Skemp-Relational-Instrumental-clean-copy-AT-1978.pdf - where it is quite clear that the author didn't bother asking any actual teachers about it(!), and the assumption made is completely wrong (could've saved himself all that effort if he'd just checked his #facts first #misinformation). First I'm going to address some of the wrong claims, then I will go through the actual reasons, which we DO actually teach...

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foldworks Sep 16, 2025

The first two episodes of MT Talk discuss articles from Mathematics Teaching 296 https://atm.org.uk/MT-Talk

Episode 1
Elizabeth Bridgett, Lisa Coe and Jay Timotheus compare and contrast Mike Askew's 1999 article, ‘Teaching numeracy: will we ever learn?’ from MT168 with Jane Hawkins' much more recent, 2025 article, ‘Why purposeful talk in mathematics lessons matters’ in MT296.

Also mentioned in this episode is the 1999 paper ‘Arbitrary and Necessary Part 1: A Way of Viewing the Mathematics Curriculum’, Dave Hewitt's first in a three-part series in For the Learning of Mathematics, as well as Mike Askew’s book, ‘Transforming Primary Mathematics’, published by Routledge in 2011.

Episode 2
Lisa Coe, Fin McLaughlin and Jay Timotheus talk about John Mason's 1987 article, ‘Only awareness is educable’ from MT120, alongside Tom Francome's 2025 article, ‘Everyone can think mathematically’ from MT296.

Fin recommended two books: ‘Thinking Mathematically’, by John Mason, Leone Burton and Kaye Stacey (Pearson, 1982, and 2010) and ‘Researching Your Own Practice: The Discipline of Noticing’, by John Mason (Routledge, 2001).

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mt-talk/id1838379708
https://open.spotify.com/show/3cJF2EXKyIe1FTNrRO8xm5

#podcast #ITeachMath #MathematicsEducation #MathEd #MathEdChat #MathsEd #MathsEdChat
#education #mathematics #math #didactics #pedagogy

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Colin the Mathmo Sep 13, 2025

For people who like to explain maths:

Suppose you have a struggling student, and you need to explain why:

"Probability of one in five"

... is the same as ...

"Odds of one to four".

How would you do that?

#MathEd #MathEdChat #MTBoS
#MathsEd #MathsEdChat

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Colin the Mathmo Dec 30, 2024

Continuing the series of videos of #G4G15 :

Sabetta Matsumoto:
Bending Seams - How to Create Couture Curves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMa6RIi42L4

From the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5_D5QQxvWKUPpMY3eNV-PrIzh1uHlR8x

All part of the #G4G series of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/@G4GCelebration/playlists

Boosts welcome (if content to do so)
Please share!

#RecreationalMaths #RecMaths
#RecreationalMath #RecMath
#MTBoS #MathEd #MathEdChat

Sabetta Matsumoto - Bending Seams — How to Create Couture Curves - G4G15 February 2024

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Colin the Mathmo Dec 23, 2024

I've been thinking about this for ages, but never had the time to craft the words around it.

People keep saying that "Maths should be fun" ... and I push back with "It should be engaging ... 'fun' is a different thing.

So @rakhichawla has posted pretty much exactly this, but better than I ever could.

I'm copying it here with permission.

Please read this, then as it says at the end ... let's have a deeper conversation about this ...

1/n

(PS: I'd love this to get boosted to get outside my bubble ... you're all amazing, but there will be other opinions, and other thoughts that could be helpful or valuable)

Hashtags: #MathEd #MathsEd #MathEdChat #MathsEdChat #MathChat #MathsChat #MTBoS #TMWYK

Colin the Mathmo Dec 14, 2024

Some time ago ... (A month!) ... there was a thread on Twitter that I think should be shared here. I've been trying to extract and post it semi-automatically, but Twitter just makes it damn near impossible.

So I'm copying it "by hand"

Here's a chart of the full conversation:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1856750472826085652.svg

Here's the head of the conversation:

https://x.com/TweetingCynical/status/1856750459110986045

#MTBoS #TMWYK
#MathChat #MathsChat
#MathEd #MathEdChat
#MathsEd #MathsEdChat

I will occasionally update the chart of *this* conversation, and it will be here:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/TeachingTellingTheTime.svg

Here is the content ...