Math Ed Said
August 19: I mentioned this on the previous TWiME, but Robert Kaplinsky's "#ObserveMe" is worth mentioning again. Many of you must have felt the same way, as it was the most-shared post for the 19th as well.Shared by: Matthew Oldridge, Robert Kaplinsky, Mark Chubb, Heather Kohn, Jill Buecking, EdD, Nathaniel Highstein, Katherine Martin, David Costello, Margie Pearse
August 20: Robert Kaplinsky's "#ObserveMe" was the most shared post again this day, but since I've already highlighted it twice I'll instead direct your attention to Dave Burgess's "Table Talk Math: Finally a Math Resource for Parents is Here!"
Shared by: Steve Wyborney, Donna Boucher, Math Coach Rivera, Tyler Anderson, Denis Sheeran, Jennifer Lawler
August 21: Laura Wagenman shared "Resources for Building Your Math Community," where she describes why and how she helps support the math teachers she works with using resources from around the web.
Shared by: Laura Wagenman, Jamie Duncan, Sara VanDerWerf, Open Middle, Kit G, WODB? Math, Jessica Jeffers, Cathy Campbell, Martin Joyce
August 22: The White House announced the 2014 and 2015 PAEMST awardees! Among the honorees were several widely-known teachers in the math ed Twitter community, Lisa Bejarano and Kristin Gray.
Shared by: Jennifer Wilson, Ann Gaffney, Mike Lawler, Raymond Johnson, Fawn Nguyen, Patrick Honner, Lisa Bejarano, Heather Johnson, Jen Silverman, Jill Buecking, EdD, Michael Pershan, Ann Gaffney, Karen King, Kent Haines, Megan M. Allen, Shauna Hedgepeth, Mary Bourassa, Janice Novakowski, Amy Hogan, Avery Pickford, Carrie Muir
August 23: Lots of people were still talking about #ObserveMe, but since I've covered that, let's talk about how "Harvey Mudd College took on gender inequality in tech, and now more than half its computer-science majors are women," a story from Quartz.
Shared by: MAA, Steven Gnagni, Francis Su, Dan Anderson, Heather Johnson, Rachel Levy, Kimberly Wassmuth
August 24: As the new school year begins, Fawn Nguyen gives us some do-nots with "7 Deadly Sins of Teaching [Maths]."
Shared by: Fawn Nguyen, Chris Stapel, Sherri Burroughs, Dan Anderson, Tracy Johnston Zager, Nicole Bridge, Bridget Dunbar, Steven Gnagni, Danielle Reycer, Nathan Kraft, Laura Wagenman, Erica Litke, Casey McCormick, John Golden, Geoff Krall, Daniel Luevanos, Bob Lochel, Megan Schmidt, Margie Pearse, Edmund Harriss, Jen Overley, Greg George, Jeremiah Ruesch, Sara VanDerWerf, Sharon Vestal, Ilona Vashchyshyn
August 25: Mollie Hall, a math instructional lead teacher from Georgia, has a blog dedicated to elementary number talks and on this day people were sharing the resources for her 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade number talks.
Shared by: Graham Fletcher, Denis Sheeran, Rosa Serratore, Brian Bushart, Mike Flynn, Federico Chialvo, Dave Lanovaz, Math Coach Rivera