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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #ITeachMath friends. Sorry it's taken me so long, but my website for #BecomingMath is back up! I'll redesign around current work soon, but in the meantime, many of the links for Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had are reinstated. Lemme know if you find bum ones? tjzager.com

Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had

Reflections on teaching and parenting young mathematicians

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 3d

#NoKings 🇺🇸

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Forum for Equity in Elementary Mathematics @mathequityforum.bsky.social · 6d

What a fabulous summary of @martamath0901.bsky.social's #NCSM2025 Kay Gilliland Equity Award talk! ¡Arriba y Adelante!: Taking Steps Towards Creating Spaces of Mattering and Thriving in Math 👇🏼👇🏼

Shelby Strong 💗💜💙 @sneffleupagus.bsky.social · 6d

"Was that a compliment, or was it an assumption that (my teachers) didn't believe I was capable?"

Marta Garcia speaks with such grace and kindess and love, and I'm so grateful to have her as a mentor. #NCSMRiseUp #NCSM2025

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 6d

(Lost my alt-text somehow. That’s a video I took at a Platner town hall. We were an overflow crowd in cold rain, and we were rapt.)

Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 6d

And the energy coming from and surrounding Graham Platner is mind-blowing! I’ve seen him speak, I’ve done my HW, and he is such an exciting and inspiring grassroots leader for this moment. How thrilling that a working person is willing to serve his larger community and country.

I am ALL IN.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 6d

…although she has two gaping issues: gun safety and the sovereign rights of our Indigenous nations. I don’t understand her positions on either, and I strongly disagree.

Even if I agreed with her 100%, however, a 78-year-old freshman senator makes zero sense. A DC-selected candidate makes no sense.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 6d

In case anyone is wondering what I think about the Maine Senate race. I am extremely proud of and grateful for Governor Mills. She stands up to bullies. She fights for women’s health and LGBTQ rights. She is driven by evidence, and the cause of fairness, and the rule of law.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 6d

Inject this message and energy into my veins!!!!

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6d

We are fighting for true freedom. The freedom to live a life of dignity and joy.

A life of 80 hour work weeks, of constantly struggling to get by, being trapped in a shitty job by your health insurance — this is not freedom, and we are not free. But we could be. If we fight.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 6d

Great @sneffleupagus.bsky.social thread with wisdom from the always brilliant and wise Marta Garcia. #NCSM2025

Shelby Strong 💗💜💙 @sneffleupagus.bsky.social · 6d

"Was that a compliment, or was it an assumption that (my teachers) didn't believe I was capable?"

Marta Garcia speaks with such grace and kindess and love, and I'm so grateful to have her as a mentor. #NCSMRiseUp #NCSM2025

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 6d

OK, I have officially moved from FOMO to just MO. :( Marta is so brilliant and wise. Thank's for documenting, Shelby! I'm learning from afar this year. #NCSM2025

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 11d

And, um, this has been a political thread, but not (necessarily) a partisan one. There is a difference.

Thoughts?

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 11d

There are others. What about society ready? What about disinformation-consumption ready? What about bullshit detectors at the ready?

How can we cut through the constant flood of initiatives and pressures and stressors and focus on preparing students for the world in this way, in all classes?

a group of men in ghostbusters uniforms walking

Alt: ghostbusters in their uniforms, ready

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 11d

There are so many ways to think about the purposes of education. For the last several decades, the language has been all about workforce preparation: “college and career ready.” And preparing students for further education and work is a purpose of schooling. But.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 11d

As our current nightmare situation demonstrates every day, though, It’s crucial that all students learn these skills. Our democracy relies on the idea of self government, which relies on the idea of a populace that can distinguish truth from snake oil.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 11d

Both of my daughters have learned these skills in public schools. They could both tear apart what he is saying, as they should!

Thinking back, though, they really honed these crafts in AP classes, especially AP stats, AP psych, and AP lang.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 11d

Critical thinking. Reasoning. Knowledge about how studies work. Deep understanding of why correlation does not equal causation. Grasp of dependent and independent variables. Understanding of rhetorical moves, argument construction, and counterargument. Skepticism.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 11d

Every student should recognize the flaws in what he is saying and be able to make an argument critiquing it.

They should have developed those skills and knowledge in social studies, science, math, and literacy classes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 16d

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 16d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 17d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 18d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 18d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Trump, who is numerically illiterate -- listen to this clip to see what I mean -- benefits immensely from the numerical illiteracy of the American public

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 22d

The comments in Portland, Maine are exactly the same. They think those of us who live here are crazy for, um, going out to dinner, getting ice cream cones, and taking a walk at night in our very safe small city. They are TERRIFIED.

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Tracy Zager @tracyzager.bsky.social · 25d

“Fiery?!” Seriously? Different adjectives come to mind after reading the good article. Why such a misleading headline?

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