"And it’s especially hard doing that work with lots of novices in the same room all within the tight social and economic constraints of 2025 America." Thank you for acknowledging that teaching is hard. I'm glad that you were and are a teacher (that you continue teaching lessons occasionally) and grateful for how you treat both teachers and students with dignity. Plus the Desmos lessons are really good. A ninth grade Algebra 1 student of mine the other day came up with a conjecture about quadratic equations that have only one x-intercept because of the thoughtful progression built into that lesson. And I got to witness her having that idea/realization -- really cool! And she was willing to share her thinking with the rest of the class.
It might just be that the algorithm is trolling me, but The Hill article you link to is riddled with ads for Myers-Briggs personality assessments, which is yet another complex phenomena that people insist can be reduced to simple and broad categorization. Strong, the pseudoscience is.
"This fact is fortunate for math teachers because kids have a lot of math ideas, even kids who don’t think they do, so the more we can make math about the ideas kids have, the more kids will like math". TRUTH. Thank you Dan.
"And it’s especially hard doing that work with lots of novices in the same room all within the tight social and economic constraints of 2025 America." Thank you for acknowledging that teaching is hard. I'm glad that you were and are a teacher (that you continue teaching lessons occasionally) and grateful for how you treat both teachers and students with dignity. Plus the Desmos lessons are really good. A ninth grade Algebra 1 student of mine the other day came up with a conjecture about quadratic equations that have only one x-intercept because of the thoughtful progression built into that lesson. And I got to witness her having that idea/realization -- really cool! And she was willing to share her thinking with the rest of the class.
It might just be that the algorithm is trolling me, but The Hill article you link to is riddled with ads for Myers-Briggs personality assessments, which is yet another complex phenomena that people insist can be reduced to simple and broad categorization. Strong, the pseudoscience is.
Ummm just saying: "real" journalists thoughtfully ask questions. No credential required. I'd count you in the ranks of thoughtful questioners,, Dan.
🫡 Thank you!
"This fact is fortunate for math teachers because kids have a lot of math ideas, even kids who don’t think they do, so the more we can make math about the ideas kids have, the more kids will like math". TRUTH. Thank you Dan.