Infinite Tangents

Welcome to part 2 of my interview with @lmhenry9 where she shares some tales from TMC12, meeting tweeps, and discuss the changing landscape of teaching.

You can find today’s guest on twitter or on her blog. Check out information on Twitter Math Camp here.

Interested in seeing more of the cool things math educators are up to online? Check out the Exploring the MathTwitterBlogosphere website and join in on the 8 weeks of awesome!

Please feel free to drop a line with comments/queries any time or head over to iTunes to leave a review! Use the hashtag #8Tangents to talk about the podcast on twitter.

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Listen in as Lisa takes us through her introduction to twitter, how teaching has changed for her over the years, and how this whole TMC thing got started.

You can find today’s guest on twitter or on her blog. Check out information on Twitter Math Camp here.

Please feel free to drop a line with comments/queries any time or head over to iTunes to leave a review! Use the hashtag #8Tangents to talk about the podcast on twitter.

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Here’s part 2 of Tangent’s interview with @wahedahbug, a teacher from the small town of Hana, HI. In this part, she answers some questions from the twitter community and we muse on fractions and school mascots. If you want to listen to someone passionate about education with a deep desire to get better, you’ve come to the right spot! I also think this may win the “most shout outs to the twitter community” award 😀

You can find today’s guest on twitter or on her blog or through a window into her class.

Please feel free to drop a line with comments/queries or if you would to have something you are doing in the Math Ed world signal boosted. Use the hashtag #8Tangents to talk about the show on twitter.

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Sometimes life gives you lemons and other times life sends you to an island where you get to eat fresh mangos. Just don’t offer any to @wahedahbug–she thinks they are gross. Last Spring I had the good fortune of visiting @wahedahbug at her home in Hana, HI. She is every bit as epic in person as you would expect and the kiddos of Hana are lucky to have her.  And since she cannot be contained, part two will be up in two weeks.

Check out @wahedahbug on twitter or on her blog or through a window into her class.

Hope everyone is making a great start to their year. Please feel free to drop a line with comments/queries or if you would to have something you are doing in the Math Ed world signal boosted.

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Happy July from Park City, Utah! Been getting some recording done during the busy days here at PCMI and looking forward to TCM13 next week, woo!

This week we hear part 2 of my chat with Max Ray of The Math Forum!

Make sure to answer Max’s question in the comments after you listen:

“What are the external measures of success? what are the things we can measure without tests that would tell us our kids are leaving HS numerate enough?”

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Call for submissions!

What did you learn this year? About your Students? Your teaching? Education? Tangents is putting out the call for submissions from youabout your school year for a special Year in Review episode. Maybe you have a sentence or two, maybe you have 10 minutes of thoughts from this year. I recommend using Audacity as you can send me the raw file either via a dropbox connection or another method of your choosing. Thanks in advance!

Happy June! Congrats to everyone out there who has wrapped up their year and three cheers for those with weeks left to go–you can do it!

This week we hear from Max Ray of The Math Forum about the identity of Dr. Math, pro-tips for teaching geometry, what is critical when giving written feedback, and what he does at The Math Forum.

Check out Max Ray’s latest Ignite talk at NCSM 2013: Tweet Me, Maybe?

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Call for submissions!

What did you learn this year? About your Students? Your teaching? Education? Tangents is putting out the call for submissions from you about your school year for a special Year in Review episode. Maybe you have a sentence or two, maybe you have 10 minutes of thoughts from this year. I recommend using Audacity as you can send me the raw file either via a dropbox connection or another method of your choosing. Thanks in advance!

This conversation was kicked off after I read Josh’s blogpost Why school itself undermines the message of lifelong learning. The subtext we send students daily in class through the format of how we teach and grade is something that’s interested me since I started teaching. In Episode 111, Josh and I chat about some of our experiences and thoughts surrounding the messages we send our students and how life doesn’t go downhill after high school.

As always, you can download the mp3 directly from libsyn or find us on Stitcher Internet Radio or iTunes.

Here is part two of my interview with @cheesemonkeysf where we talk about resourcefulness, those lightbulb moments, and cheesemonkeyef shows her English teacher side. The blog post that kicked off much of the discussion can be found over at josh g.’s notes, and in two weeks Tangents will be back with an interview with Josh himself.

As always, you can download the mp3 directly from libsyn and I am pleased to announce that we are now also available on Stitcher Internet Radio!

Cheesemonkeysf’s Question for you: (answer in the comments!)

How are you working to create a shame-free environment in your math classroom that leaves space for everyone to experience their mathematics in their own way?

Topper!

After a delightful lunch with Avery and Bree, today’s guest and I sat down to chat about her history in the teaching world, some thoughts on teaching middle school, and musings about the twitterverse. You can download the mp3 here.

And hello to visitors from the Math Forum! Many thanks to them for listing Tangents in their most recent newsletter. If you’ve never had a chance to check them out, I highly recommend their Problems of the Week as a place to start.

Links:

In case you are wondering what Sam we’re talking about, you can find him here.

The Math Forum’s EnCoMPASS program.

Children Doing Mathematics by Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant.

Cheesemonkeysf’s Question for you:

How are you working to create a shame-free environment in your math classroom that leaves space for everyone to experience their mathematics in their own way?