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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · 2d

Math and Art. I love it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math.

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · 16d

From this morning's NY Times -- Barcelona Is Made of Math www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Barcelona Is Made of Math

A virtual tour of the architecture in a city where mathematics and exploration meet.

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · 17d

Tomorrow is the day for my webinar. 2:30 Pacific time. 5:30 on the east coast. Hope you join.

Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · 23d

I'm excited to present a free webinar on September 30. Register here: heinemann.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · 23d

I'm excited to present a free webinar on September 30. Register here: heinemann.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Sep 10

A screen shot from a new sitcom, The Paper. I wrote Math for Smarty Pants in 1982! How did it get here?

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Aug 29

I never heard before about "highly composite" or "highly abundant" numbers. I learned about them from Cambridge Mathematics. createsend.com/t/y-2916A5BF...

Sip & Snack - Issue 60

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Aug 25

I picked bush beans this morning from our garden. No, I didn't count, but I confess that I was tempted. Will they serve 4 at dinner tonight?

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Aug 11

Why am I confused by this sign?

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wrote a post about pedagogy for all the math freaks out there. pershmail.substack.com/p/practice-s...

Practice Software is Struggling

Why whole-group teaching is easier than individual practice

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jul 28

I was teaching 8th grade math when Tom Lehrer released the album with New Math. I played the song at back-to-school night. (I was required to teach new math with the SMSG materials.)Tom Lehrer was a wonder.

View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · Jul 27

My dad got this album back then. Never realized Lehrer was a Mathematician. So now this makes sense
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New Math

Tom Lehrer · That Was the Year That Was · Song · 1965

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jul 23

And Cricket isn't natural to me. I'm still puzzling.

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jul 23

I loved this!

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · Jul 22

I really hope people enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. It's a retellilng of the battle between Tartaglia and Cardano over the cubic.

pershmail.substack.com/p/who-gets-c...

Who Gets Credit For Great Ideas?

A famous mathematical controversy, with notes at the end

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm stumped.

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jul 23

I read The Way It Spozed to Be by James Herndon in the 1960s as a beginning teacher and it spoke to me then. I haven't reread it. Then The Having of Wonderful Ideas by Eleanor Duckworth, which I've gifted to new teachers and which I've revisited over the years.

Edutopia @edutopia.org · Jul 19

Some books don't just shape us as people—they transform how we show up in our classrooms.

Teachers, what book shaped you?

#EdChat #EduSky #teachers

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jul 10

Oooh, I liked this string about squares and rectangles. Some new ideas for me.

David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · Jul 10

If you had to define a quantity to represent how far away from or how close to being square a rectangle was, what would you choose?

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jun 23

Nice! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem (Gift Article)

Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 dimensions.

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jun 14

This reminds me of what I learned from my undergraduate advisor Bob Davis. He said that a student's wrong answer is the right answer to a different question. My job is to uncover that other question and move from there.

David K Butler @davidkbutler.bsky.social · Jun 14

It's on my mind because a colleage at another uni was moaning the other day about how maths courses have been "dumbed down" over the years. Even if you think this is true, your STUDENTS aren't dumb. The maths you think is dumber is still advanced to them.

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Marilyn Burns @mburnsmath.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Amie Albrecht @nomadpenguin.bsky.social · May 30

I really appreciated the openness and civility of this exploration of differing perspectives of the ‘science’ of mathematics. A good listen.

Samuel Otten @ottensam.bsky.social · Apr 13

The new episode features my conversations about the #ScienceOfMath with @sarahpowellphd.bsky.social and with @mathematize4all.bsky.social. I'm thankful to both of them for sharing their perspectives.

#MathEd #MathEdResearch
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