HenriUntil March 31, 20% off on my book (There Is No One Way to Teach Math). More info:
Patrick HonnerSan Francisco stopped offering Algebra 1 in middle school a decade ago. "The number of students enrolled in advanced high school math declined". Shocking! Now the pendulum swings back.
Of course the high-profile people who supported this will never admit that this was a ridiculous idea to begin with. They'll just say it just wasn't implemented properly. And they'll move on to the next big thing in education.
Doug Holton* The Aftermath of DrawEduMath: Vision Language Models Underperform with Struggling Students and Misdiagnose Errors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00925
* Benchmarking the Pedagogical Knowledge of Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18710v1
https://www.fab-ai.org/initiatives/ai-for-education/edtech-quality/resources/benchmarks/about-the-pedagogy-benchmark
* AI‑generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking
https://theconversation.com/ai-generated-lesson-plans-fall-short-on-inspiring-students-and-promoting-critical-thinking-265355
#AIEd #mathed #teaching #education
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00925
* Benchmarking the Pedagogical Knowledge of Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18710v1
https://www.fab-ai.org/initiatives/ai-for-education/edtech-quality/resources/benchmarks/about-the-pedagogy-benchmark
* AI‑generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking
https://theconversation.com/ai-generated-lesson-plans-fall-short-on-inspiring-students-and-promoting-critical-thinking-265355
#AIEd #mathed #teaching #education
The Aftermath of DrawEduMath: Vision Language Models Underperform with Struggling Students and Misdiagnose Errors
Effective mathematics education requires identifying and responding to students' mistakes. For AI to support pedagogical applications, models must perform well across different levels of student proficiency. Our work provides an extensive, year-long snapshot of how 11 vision-language models (VLMs) perform on DrawEduMath, a QA benchmark involving real students' handwritten, hand-drawn responses to math problems. We find that models' weaknesses concentrate on a core component of math education: student error. All evaluated VLMs underperform when describing work from students who require more pedagogical help, and across all QA, they struggle the most on questions related to assessing student error. Thus, while VLMs may be optimized to be math problem solving experts, our results suggest that they require alternative development incentives to adequately support educational use cases.
foldworksMathematics Teaching 299 now available online https://atm.org.uk/Mathematics-Teaching-Journal-Archive/177734
Design by me
Five free articles for non-members:
Increasing access for a student teacher with a visual impairment
Zahara Hussain, Emily Thouless, René Hartmann and Helen Thouless explore Zahara’s experiences as a student with a visual impairment on Core Mathematics modules during an undergraduate primary education course.
Computational mathematics
Allen Tsui shares some activities for learners aged 8 to 16 to apply mathematics when learning about programming.
Introducing Multicolour Maths
Brook Tate shares his love of mathematical relationships expressed in colour.
Fixing the mathematics transition from primary to secondary
Tom Manners suggests some ways of improving the transition from Key Stage 2 to 3.
Barbara Jaworski (1944–2025)
Peter Gates, Anne Watson and Dave Hewitt remember Barbara Jaworski’s contribution to mathematics education.
#MathematicsTeaching #iTeachMath #MathEd #MathsEd #Math #Mathematics #teaching #pedagogy #didactics #education #design #GraphicDesign #AMiE #MT #MT299
Guest blog post by Prof. Amanda Cangelosi: Two Math Education Books. She argues that my There Is No One Way to Teach Math complements Liljedahl's Building Thinking Classrooms.
https://blog.mathed.page/2026/03/03/two-math-education-books/
Possibly useful for π day
Circle area (animation)
https://www.mathed.page/constructions/pi/index.html
Leonardo's Areas
https://www.mathed.page/puzzles/polyarcs/leonardo.pdf
π for regular polygons?
https://www.mathed.page/geometry-labs/polygon-pi/index.html
Taxicab π:
https://www.mathed.page/geometry-labs/labs/taxicab-geometry.pdf
Karen CampeThe March Calendar of Problems is here! Enjoy some #ProblemSolving yourself or with students. Let us know your thoughts & working-out here or on post.
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #RecreationalMath #MathChat #ClassroomMath #MathEd #MathsEdChat
https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/march-calendar-problems-4/
New blog post! "Reflecting on 10 Years of 'Reflections and Tangents' "
Catch up on 10 years of #math and #MathEd posts & consider subscribing so you never miss a new one!
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #ClassroomMath
https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/reflecting-on-10-years-of-reflections-tangents/
Time for winter #ProblemSolving! Here's the February Calendar of Problems for you and your students.
Tell us your working out here or on the post. ENJOY!
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #RecreationalMath #MathEd #MathsEdChat #MathsToday #T3Learns #ClassroomMath
https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/february-calendar-problems-4/
Solutions to the January #ProblemSolving Calendar are posted! Stay tuned for February calendar coming tomorrow...
#RecreationalMath #ClassroomMath #MTBoS #iTeachMath #MathEd #MathsEdChat #MathsToday
https://karendcampe.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/january-calendar-problems-4/
