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NYC HS Math Teacher; Speaker; Author, "The Math Teacher's Toolbox," "Practical Algebra: A Self-Teaching Guide (3rd ed.)"; 2022 MfA Muller Award Winner; Aspiring cook and fiction writer. Web: www.bobsonwong.com #MfAProud #MTBoS #ITeachMath #miseducAsian

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Apr 17

In the latest @todos-math.bsky.social podcast, I talked with @professorteds.bsky.social and Shari Kaku on how community has played a central role in my growth as an Asian American math educator. #MTBoS #ITeachMath www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tod...

Episode 12: Teaching, Community, and Change with Bobson Wong

What does it mean to build authentic, sustaining communities as a math educator—and why is it so hard to find those spaces? In this episode, we talk with Bobson Wong, a high school math teacher, local...

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · 7h

Ready for three days of learning and community in math education at @nctm.org #NCTMATL25 #MTBoS #MfAProud

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · 1d

Excited to be presenting at @NCTM #NCTMATL25:
H 10/16 (5:20-7:20 PM) Panel discussion at screening of "Counted Out"
F 10/17 (8-9 AM): (#221) Incorporating Equity Tasks into Everyday Math Instruction (GWCC A301)
F 10/17 (4:30-5 PM): (#405) Engaging Secondary Students in Notice and Wonder (GWCC 404)

screenshot: "Incorporating Equity Tasks into Everyday Math Instruction, NCTM Annual Meeting, Friday, October 17, 2025, 8:00 AM. Bobson Wong, Math Teacher, Bayside High School (NYC Public Schools). Co-author, The Math Teacher’s Toolbox and Practical Algebra: A Self-Teaching Guide (3rd ed.) Web: http://bobsonwong.com. X, Instagram: @bobsonwong. Bluesky: @bobsonwong.com

Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Sep 16

Deck.blue changed the way I interact with Bluesky and makes this platform much more manageable. It’s that customizable column Tweetdeck-like format that made that other site tolerable.

deck.blue

Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout

Deck.blue

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Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · Sep 15

The problem with firing teachers over Charlie Kirk is that governors and this administration wanted to get rid of them anyways and just found a convenient and awful excuse.

As agents of the state, teachers will be under scrutiny.

It doesn't excuse the harmful effects of fascism on our profession.

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Sep 12

Glad to have written this for EdWeek... #MTBoS #IteachMath

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · Sep 11

Students Make Mistakes. Here Are Better Ways to Correct Them www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... is new @edweek.org post with @bobsonwong.com

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Sep 4

Thanks! 😀

Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Sep 4

Year 20 of teaching started today! #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MfAProud

Classrooms with desks and SMART board with welcome slide

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Sep 3

I can't believe that the @mathforamerica.bsky.social course that Larisa Bukalov and I will be teaching filled up in less than 2 hours! Looking forward to helping STEM teachers expand their influence in education this year! #MfAProud

"Beyond the Classroom: Influencing STEM
Education
Facilitated By: MƒA Master Teachers Larisa Bukalov
and Bobson Wong
THURSDAYS, DEC 4, JAN 8, FEB 26, MAR 26, APR 30, MAY 28
MƒA & ONLINE
 INQUIRY, PRACTICE, AND LEADERSHIP
Do you wish you could do more to grow as a teacher
and make a broader impact in STEM education? In this
extended length course, teachers will explore how to
influence the profession beyond their classroom and
MƒA. Guided by two MƒA Muller Award winners, we..."

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 24

I assume you're referring to the cell phone ban in NYC? I could comment on that, but I can'jt DM you.

Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 17

For people (like me) who are not I. The loop: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

'KPop Demon Hunters' sing-along: How to get tickets and what to know about the popular Netflix film

Dying to belt out 'Golden' with fellow fans? Here's what to know about the animated movie's upcoming sing-along parties.

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 17

🤫🤫🤫🤐🤐🤐
DO NOT spread the word! The last thing I need is for my kids to ask me about singalong screenings of K-Pop Demon Hunters!

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 17

I honestly had no idea K-Pop Demon Hunters was a thing until my kids wanted to watch it on Netflix…and they apparently know ALL THE WORDS to the songs. 😳😂

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 7

On a more serious note, I can't believe how many people who don't live in NYC and don't know what actually goes on here somehow have enough expertise to explain why Mamdani will bring about the apocalypse.

Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 7

😂😂😂😂😂

Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · Aug 6

Oh no President Trump please don’t throw the 2025 NYC mayoral race in the briar patch, we beg of you

George Pearkes @peark.es · Aug 6

NYT reporting that the President is talking to Cuomo about the NYC mayoral campaign, to which I can only respond: masterful gambit sir!

Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 6

I actually like differentiating between negative and minus - it leads to an important conversation about vocabulary. But yeah, the TI calculator isn't the best place for that!

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 6

These were exactly some of the arguments I used to argue that TI calculators were outdated, but somehow I was accused of supporting inequity...as if forcing students or schools to buy $150 calculators with limited functionality (and not that intuitive) was somehow more equitable.

Tʀᴇʏ Gᴏᴇsʜ. @tgoesh.bsky.social · Aug 6

Cheaper? How many of our kids don't already have a smartphone?

Reliable? Tied to one piece of hardware? That takes either a bunch of batteries (which the kids used to love hijacking for their CD players) or outdated USB connectors?

Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 6

I got i to some pretty heated debates on that other platform from people who adamantly believed that TI calculators were better than Desmos - more reliable, cheaper, more durable. I can’t get past the constant struggles I face when teaching kids how to use TI calcs. They are so behind the times.

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 6

#MTBoS #ITeachMath

TODOS: Mathematics for ALL @todos-math.bsky.social · Aug 6

Familia! Join us for the FIRST ever TODOS Bluesky #slowchat this Sunday, August 10th for some good conversation on #BacktoSchool. Prompts will be released for an hour starting at noon PST, but feel free to respond throughout the day!

Tell your #edusky and #mathsky friends!

Join us! TODOS Back to School Slow Chat. Sunday, August 10, 2025

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Aug 6

This is cool. I hate doing inference on TI calculators. Thoughts? #MTBoS #ITeachMath skewthescript.org/blog/desmos-...

Desmos is coming to AP Stats — Skew The Script

The free Desmos calculator will now be embedded for AP Stats…

skewthescript.org

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Jul 29

It's also laughable how Weisberg preaches patience with a terrible curriculum that was rushed into service.

Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Jul 29

At least Mamdani has experience as a state legislator, compared to Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Sliwa, who had a combined total of 0 years of experience in elected office before running.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · Jul 28

It’s also quite interesting that many of the exact same people who take issue with Mamdani’s experience (3+ terms as a state legislator) had no problem with someone with zero teaching or educational experience being put in full control of the nation’s largest school district

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Jul 11

The anti-DEI moral panic, fed by the NYT and others, including people like Tyler Austin Harper, has never considered or cared that "DEI" programs included programs for disabled students, lower income families, first generation students, and veterans.
All they cared about was knocking it down.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Jul 11

NYT: a "white people from Trump country" story, but this time with scientists! The NYT outdoing itself with bizarre framing of stories on Trump's damaging destruction of science (yes, for everyone!). Strange how they're only just realizing that DEI initiatives supported many white women in science.

Post from The New York Times:
The NIH has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the places that supported Trump. "People on the right, they don't realize they're limiting the opportunity of their own kids by supporting this."
With image of 4 white scientists (1 man & 3 women) with the headline "The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump's DEI Cuts"

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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Jul 9

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

UFT @uftnyc.bsky.social · Jul 8

UFT delegates voted to endorse Mamdani because they believe he is the best candidate in the race to advance our union’s agenda: to protect our premium-free health care, fix Tier 6, pass the “RESPECT check” bill, implement the class size law, revamp mayoral control and more.

Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · Jun 26

Congratulations to the Bayside High School class of 2025!

Graduating class of Bayside HS in blue caps and gowns listening to a speaker at Carnesecca Arena

Seat reserved for Neo Secaira, who would have graduated today

Diploma cases for Bayside HS graduates stacked on a table with a BHS tablecloth