MathIsLife
@damianmolinari.bsky.social
Math educator, hill and mountain wanderer, and music and bean lover. Working to create a humane learning community.
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Live)
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December 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
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"[T]o put the issue of border security as the top objective in one’s national security strategy is a kind of a nativist madness that is more about cultural—and let’s be honest, racial—anxiety about immigration than it is about any tangible security threat," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org.
The Situation: Why Did the White House Write This National Security Strategy?
A very strange document.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"[T]o put the issue of border security as the top objective in one’s national security strategy is a kind of a nativist madness that is more about cultural—and let’s be honest, racial—anxiety about immigration than it is about any tangible security threat," writes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org.
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I had the good fortune of being in the room for this conversation between the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and my equally brilliant colleague Prof Matthew D. Morrison.
Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Hanif Abdurraqib at Stanford | On Art, Survival, and the Heart’s Work
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December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I had the good fortune of being in the room for this conversation between the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and my equally brilliant colleague Prof Matthew D. Morrison.
Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
Could not recommend it more highly. Just a stunning conversation. Watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp7L...
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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been accused of breaching FIFA’s ethics codes in relation to the process that saw President Trump receive an inaugural peace prize.
Gianni Infantino accused of breaching FIFA’s ethics codes in relation to President Trump comments
Advocacy group FairSquare has also requested an investigation into President Trump being awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize last Friday.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been accused of breaching FIFA’s ethics codes in relation to the process that saw President Trump receive an inaugural peace prize.
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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This whole article about what makes the Science of Reading™️ problematic is great, but this section in particular is beautifully articulated — the problem is the dogmatic overprescription by proponents (not the research itself!) www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
![Quote from Mark Seidenberg about the Science of Reading:
“I'm going to lay my cards on the table here: The treatment of PA Iphonemic awareness] in the "science of reading"-the idea that a certain level of PA is prerequisite for reading, and that PA training should continue until the student becomes highly proficient at PA tasks regardless of how well they are reading-is emblematic of problems that have arisen within the SoR approach. It is an overprescription that reflects a shallow understanding of reading development, yet has become a major tenet of the "science of reading". The PA situation and other developments suggest to me that the SoR is at risk of turning into a new pedagogical dogma, consisting of a small set of tenets loosely tied to some classic but dated research, supplemented by additional assumptions that are ad hoc and ill-advised...”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j2fc735mnytrnynqdlmemfme/bafkreifuitoqyyoqeq4lbelvmsqhmius556voqvgfusce5lx5ggybz3l2u@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This whole article about what makes the Science of Reading™️ problematic is great, but this section in particular is beautifully articulated — the problem is the dogmatic overprescription by proponents (not the research itself!) www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...
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It's my favorite time of year! @edutopia.org 's 10 significant educational studies- because what we do and hlhow we adapdt and change our practices in education should always be backed by research.
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025 www.edutopia.org/visual-essay...
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025 www.edutopia.org/visual-essay...
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025
We’re back with our roundup of the most insightful studies of the year, from the power of brain breaks to groundbreaking research on AI, cell phones, and handwriting in the classroom.
www.edutopia.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It's my favorite time of year! @edutopia.org 's 10 significant educational studies- because what we do and hlhow we adapdt and change our practices in education should always be backed by research.
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025 www.edutopia.org/visual-essay...
The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025 www.edutopia.org/visual-essay...
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A Republican call to give Americans cash instead of health insurance subsidies revives an old idea that has left millions with medical debt. n.pr/44dfWWE
Republicans push high deductible plans and health savings accounts
A Republican call to give Americans cash instead of health insurance subsidies revives an old idea that has left millions with medical debt.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A Republican call to give Americans cash instead of health insurance subsidies revives an old idea that has left millions with medical debt. n.pr/44dfWWE
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This lesson is a real-life context for transformations including rotations, reflections, and translations. It lets your students initially describe the movements in their own words and then guide them towards a mathematically precise definition.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This lesson is a real-life context for transformations including rotations, reflections, and translations. It lets your students initially describe the movements in their own words and then guide them towards a mathematically precise definition.
robertkaplinsky.com/work/ms...
robertkaplinsky.com/work/ms...
🧵PSA on math acceleration in school. Unless the kid asks for this, don't do it. I was just talking to a friend who admitted that having their kid take Geo over summer resulted in her being miserable in Algebra 2.
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
🧵PSA on math acceleration in school. Unless the kid asks for this, don't do it. I was just talking to a friend who admitted that having their kid take Geo over summer resulted in her being miserable in Algebra 2.
Bring back shamefulness.
The most depressing lesson of the Trump era is that scandals don’t matter if the perpetrator and their supporters don’t feel shame.
Shamelessness is now a political superpower.
Shamelessness is now a political superpower.
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Bring back shamefulness.
I love how art can be interpreted differently. I see the souls of the damned reaching up from the depths of hell to drag down the rest of us.
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I love how art can be interpreted differently. I see the souls of the damned reaching up from the depths of hell to drag down the rest of us.
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The best gift we can give others is our attention. All too often we have our mind on other things when someone is talking to us or is beside us. When we listen to them with our full attention, or look openly, we not only see them in their fullness, we also see ourself. Kindness matters. #life #love
December 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Maybe there was an autocorrect when he wrote "full and conditional pardon"?
don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Maybe there was an autocorrect when he wrote "full and conditional pardon"?
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New blog post for maths teachers: "Things I assumed you knew"
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Comments welcome!
#ukmathschat
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/12/thin...
Comments welcome!
#ukmathschat
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New blog post for maths teachers: "Things I assumed you knew"
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/12/thin...
Comments welcome!
#ukmathschat
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/12/thin...
Comments welcome!
#ukmathschat
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Perfect response to Senators and Representatives pretending they know nothing…are they admitting incompetence or admitting they are liars?
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Perfect response to Senators and Representatives pretending they know nothing…are they admitting incompetence or admitting they are liars?
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Gavin "I have one good idea for every three monstrous acts I perform" Newsom is in the news demanding that Democrats be more "socially normal", and this one is definitely not ending up in the "good idea" bucket.
It's just a new way to spin the failing "embrace the center", but there's a fun twist.
It's just a new way to spin the failing "embrace the center", but there's a fun twist.
December 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Gavin "I have one good idea for every three monstrous acts I perform" Newsom is in the news demanding that Democrats be more "socially normal", and this one is definitely not ending up in the "good idea" bucket.
It's just a new way to spin the failing "embrace the center", but there's a fun twist.
It's just a new way to spin the failing "embrace the center", but there's a fun twist.
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"I didn’t go to college 'in order to' get a job. I went to explore, to be challenged, to figure out what mattered."
"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"I didn’t go to college 'in order to' get a job. I went to explore, to be challenged, to figure out what mattered."
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There's a subset of GOPer that seems to have entered politics almost entirely for the potential to be adjacent to killing people and well imo that sort of person probably shouldn't be in office
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
There's a subset of GOPer that seems to have entered politics almost entirely for the potential to be adjacent to killing people and well imo that sort of person probably shouldn't be in office
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The media has battered public schools for 30 years to do the work of the corporate school privatizers. #Edusky nancyebailey.com/2025/12/07/h...
High Expectations and High Standards: The Chatter is Nothing New! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
For Americans who care about their public schools and have watched them poked at over the years like an abused dog in a cage, Idrees Kahloon's piece in The Atlantic, "America is Sliding Toward Illiter...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The media has battered public schools for 30 years to do the work of the corporate school privatizers. #Edusky nancyebailey.com/2025/12/07/h...
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Reflecting on Ch 4 of #NixTheTricks: Geometry & Measurement! 📐 Are we relying too much on formulas? It’s time to focus on: Reasoning over recall. 🔹Precise vocabulary 🔹 Discovery before definitions. Read the full reflection: mathsational.blogspot.com/2025/12/nix-... #MathEd #MTBoS #EduSky #iTeachMath
Nix the Tricks Book Study – Chapter 4: Geometry and Measurement
This post is part of an ongoing book study series on Nix the Tricks by Tina Cardone. Each week, a group of math teachers meets to reflect...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reflecting on Ch 4 of #NixTheTricks: Geometry & Measurement! 📐 Are we relying too much on formulas? It’s time to focus on: Reasoning over recall. 🔹Precise vocabulary 🔹 Discovery before definitions. Read the full reflection: mathsational.blogspot.com/2025/12/nix-... #MathEd #MTBoS #EduSky #iTeachMath
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“I’ll never lose that spirit, but I don’t miss being on the street from morning to night,” says Corey “Sunspot Jonz” Johnson, who used to sell stapled and Xeroxed copies of his zine 'Unsigned and Hella Broke' on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.
Unsigned and Hella Broke: The East Bay’s Dirt-Hustling 1990s Hip-Hop Subculture | KQED
How a movement made of homemade cassette tapes and independent hustle changed Bay Area hip-hop history.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“I’ll never lose that spirit, but I don’t miss being on the street from morning to night,” says Corey “Sunspot Jonz” Johnson, who used to sell stapled and Xeroxed copies of his zine 'Unsigned and Hella Broke' on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.
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Check out this position paper about evaluating claims in math education. That’s some bold leadership NCSM! #ITeachMath
Math education is complex. It can’t be reduced to single studies or one-size-fits-all claims.
NCSM’s new position paper offers a balanced, equity-centered, research-informed alternative—one that honors the real nuance of teaching + learning.
Read more → mathedleadership.org/position-papers
NCSM’s new position paper offers a balanced, equity-centered, research-informed alternative—one that honors the real nuance of teaching + learning.
Read more → mathedleadership.org/position-papers
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Check out this position paper about evaluating claims in math education. That’s some bold leadership NCSM! #ITeachMath
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Math education is complex. It can’t be reduced to single studies or one-size-fits-all claims.
NCSM’s new position paper offers a balanced, equity-centered, research-informed alternative—one that honors the real nuance of teaching + learning.
Read more → mathedleadership.org/position-papers
NCSM’s new position paper offers a balanced, equity-centered, research-informed alternative—one that honors the real nuance of teaching + learning.
Read more → mathedleadership.org/position-papers
December 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Math education is complex. It can’t be reduced to single studies or one-size-fits-all claims.
NCSM’s new position paper offers a balanced, equity-centered, research-informed alternative—one that honors the real nuance of teaching + learning.
Read more → mathedleadership.org/position-papers
NCSM’s new position paper offers a balanced, equity-centered, research-informed alternative—one that honors the real nuance of teaching + learning.
Read more → mathedleadership.org/position-papers