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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · 6d

Opening @nctm.org session at #NCTMATL25. @latrendak.bsky.social kicked off with things to think about and people to thank before handing things over to Matt Larson, who gave an inspiring acceptance speech after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, and to Lateefah Id-Deen, our opening speaker.

NCTM/MET Lifetime Achievement Awardee Matt Larson

Opening session speaker Lateefah Id-Deen

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NCSM: Leadership in Mathematics Education @mathedleaders.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Call for Reviewers! The 58th Annual #NCSM Conference team is seeking volunteers to review speaker proposals.

🗓 Review window: Dec 12–Jan 9
🕒 Each proposal takes ~10–15 mins (10–20 total)
✅ Apply by Nov 21

🔗 forms.gle/JdSqGFyZVsHs...

#NCSM2026 #Denver #NCSMElevate

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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ryan gives the best 2 sentence summary of the NCTM's 8 effective teaching practices I've ever seen. drive.google.com/file/d/1SRkb...

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Apr 28

Colorado only requires 160 days for districts with 5-day school weeks, but for districts with 4-day weeks (about 133 of our 178 districts), then can have even fewer so long as the instructional hours add up. The last district I taught for only had 144 instructional days. www.cpr.org/2025/03/31/w...

Why does Colorado have the shortest school year of any state?

While it seems like Colorado students are getting short-changed, it’s important to look at the instructional hours mandated. Here’s how Colorado stacks up.

www.cpr.org

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Apr 28

I saw presentations at AERA that did math textbook analysis and it made me wish that we had information that went far beyond what we get from EdReports. Pacing data would be useful, as would percentages of problems rated by cognitive demand and the use of verbal, visual, and contextual features.

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Apr 27

I've seen this before and it's still so weird to me that it got published in a Journal of Medicine.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · Apr 25

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...

#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

ERICA to the Rescue!

ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...

www.datarescueproject.org

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Apr 24

I browsed the #AERA2025 exhibit hall and saw a lot of books that I want. My question becomes: How many more books can I pile on to my shelves before I trigger a structural collapse of the floor? There's a number. I don't know what it is, and I hope it's pretty big, but there's a number.

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Dan Finkel @mathforlove.bsky.social · Apr 10

Anyway, crazy times. The mission of helping people learn math more deeply and powerfully seems, if anything, more important than ever.

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 19

Maybe when you're done with the LOC, you can head to Rutgers next to dig into their archives. 😉 archives.libraries.rutgers.edu/repositories...

Collection: Robert B. Davis Papers | Archives and Special Collections at Rutgers

archives.libraries.rutgers.edu

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Dave Kung @dtkung.bsky.social · Mar 14

Just had the prep call for the opening panel (on using math to improve the world) at @JustEquations free, virtual conference, The Mathematics of Opportunity. It's going to be great! Join the fun - ensuring that math education expands opportunity for students.
Register now: bit.ly/tmo-2025-reg...

bit.ly

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 5

This thread references an oldie but a goodie: bsky.app/profile/raym...

Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Dec 11

Reading Rathmell (1978) with fresh eyes while participating in a book study of Bay-Williams and SanGiovanni's Figuring Out Fluency. I like this advice regarding drill: It's needed to develop immediate recall, but make sure you're drilling _efficient_ strategies, not inefficient ones. #MTBoS #mathed

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Liesl @lieslfressola.bsky.social · Feb 21

Teachers who received the highest award in math and science education are being censored and erased. #edusky

Letter stating that biographies are being reviewed based on the executive order to eliminate reference to DEI

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 18

I think this article might be up your alley. Check out the six RME principles of teaching mathematics by van den Heuvel-Panhuizen and Wijers: drive.google.com/file/d/1h19l...

I occasionally think I want to write a book focused on these things, but for now, Marja's article will have to do.

van den Heuvel-Panhuizen and Wijers - 2005 - Mathematics standards and curricula in the Netherl.pdf

drive.google.com

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Jan 28

Also noteworthy: I had four consecutive quarters making satisfactory progress for keeping objects out of my mouth.

Kindergartners have lots of stuff to learn.

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Jan 28

We were talking about our old report cards this morning in the office so I decided to dig mine out. I had one comment from my Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Reingardt, and honestly it might be all I've ever wanted people to say about me.

"Raymond has good ideas and solutions to problems."

A report card with the handwritten comment, "Raymond has good ideas and solutions to problems."

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Dec 12

This strikes me as well-said: "Situations that call for immediate response are very frustrating to children who have no thought processes available that permit them to answer in the time allotted."

I like that this isn't about anxiety, which sounds medical. It's about balancing skill vs. time.

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Dec 11

Full reference:

Rathmell, E. C. (1978). Using thinking strategies to teach the basic facts. In M. N. Suydam & R. E. Reys (Eds.), Developing computational skills: 1978 yearbook (pp. 13–38). National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Dec 11

Reading Rathmell (1978) with fresh eyes while participating in a book study of Bay-Williams and SanGiovanni's Figuring Out Fluency. I like this advice regarding drill: It's needed to develop immediate recall, but make sure you're drilling _efficient_ strategies, not inefficient ones. #MTBoS #mathed

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Nov 20

If you'd rather follow a feed that tracks the use of a bunch of #mathed -related hashtags, let me suggest this one by @afreeparticle.com:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Nov 20

On Twitter, I had built up a list of almost 5,000 people who posted pretty reliably about #matheducation. Here's my attempt to start the same kind of list here. I believe you can follow it and pin it to the top of your timeline:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

#MTBoS #MathEd #iteachmath

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Nov 19

This sounds a lot like Sfard (1991) -- if you haven't read it, I think you'll like it.

Sfard, A. (1991). On the dual nature of mathematical conceptions: Reflections on processes and objects as different sides of the same coin. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 22, 1–36. doi.org/10.1007/BF00...

On the dual nature of mathematical conceptions: Reflections on processes and objects as different sides of the same coin - Educational Studies in Mathematics

This paper presents a theoretical framework for investigating the role of algorithms in mathematical thinking. In the study, a combined ontological-psychological outlook is applied. An analysis of dif...

doi.org

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Oct 15

Allow me to paraphrase the quoted statement for the irony:

"I am convinced of what I have learned--not because someone explicitly told me in an article--but because I've been given opportunities to experiment in my own practice, make observations, and synthesize conclusions that make sense to me."

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Cal Armstrong @calarmstrong.bsky.social · Sep 26

"Knowing from Memory" =/= Memorization.
This is definitely a call-back to Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World' and the introduction of hypnopaedia : ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/englishliter...
"The-Nile-is-the-longest-river-in-Africa"
#NCTMCHi24

#mtbos

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Raymond Johnson @raymondjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 26

So far, I've seen #NCTMCHI24.

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