MathIsLife
@damianmolinari.bsky.social
Math educator, hill and mountain wanderer, and music and bean lover. Working to create a humane learning community.
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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.
robertkaplinsky.com/work/ms...
robertkaplinsky.com/work/ms...
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"
www.resourceaholic.com/2025/12/thin...
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
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I can't vouch for how rigorous this research is in this article Google pointed me toward, but it's pretty interesting and thought-provoking. theconversation.com/girls-and-bo...
Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short-term results but different long-term outcomes
The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential cause.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I can't vouch for how rigorous this research is in this article Google pointed me toward, but it's pretty interesting and thought-provoking. theconversation.com/girls-and-bo...
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My longer reflection here, beginning with a mini-rant about a piece that admittedly irked me (calling teachers "frauds" felt a bit much) before sharing more about the results from my students and where I wish the conversation would move:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-does-...
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-does-...
What does an A even mean?
building on a classroom conversation this week
thebrokencopier.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My longer reflection here, beginning with a mini-rant about a piece that admittedly irked me (calling teachers "frauds" felt a bit much) before sharing more about the results from my students and where I wish the conversation would move:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-does-...
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/what-does-...
This new EP is beautiful. It sounds like the piano, sarode, and tabla were meant to speak to each other.
Also just released SANCTUARY, a new EP with dear brothers Alam Khan (sarode) and Nitin Mitta (tabla)
alamkhan.bandcamp.com/album/sanctu...
alamkhan.bandcamp.com/album/sanctu...
December 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This new EP is beautiful. It sounds like the piano, sarode, and tabla were meant to speak to each other.
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I’m so sick of the people with the most power in the world being free to use the bodies of everybody else for target practice. I’m sure there’s a better way to go about things. I think we can put 'rampant murder' in the box of Shit We Can’t Believe We Used to Do.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I’m so sick of the people with the most power in the world being free to use the bodies of everybody else for target practice. I’m sure there’s a better way to go about things. I think we can put 'rampant murder' in the box of Shit We Can’t Believe We Used to Do.
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Yes!
And what I’m saying is this isn’t just the one kid.
All kids have fabulous ideas about mathematical structures. Let’s play with them!
talkingmathwithkids.com/number/math-...
And what I’m saying is this isn’t just the one kid.
All kids have fabulous ideas about mathematical structures. Let’s play with them!
talkingmathwithkids.com/number/math-...
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Yes!
And what I’m saying is this isn’t just the one kid.
All kids have fabulous ideas about mathematical structures. Let’s play with them!
talkingmathwithkids.com/number/math-...
And what I’m saying is this isn’t just the one kid.
All kids have fabulous ideas about mathematical structures. Let’s play with them!
talkingmathwithkids.com/number/math-...
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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Who are all these grinning white people laughing at Trump's vile racism? h/t to @helenkennedy.bsky.social for pulling together a list. Shame on each & every one of them.
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Who are all these grinning white people laughing at Trump's vile racism? h/t to @helenkennedy.bsky.social for pulling together a list. Shame on each & every one of them.