@pattystephens

K–12 math consultant & #DesmosFellow. Founder, @AcutelyCurious. Author, The What If Books. Asking better questions about math, tech & learning. #iteachmath

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Joined July 2007
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Book 2 is live: What If Tall Meant More? 🐾 Pebbles tackles a question every young child faces — does a taller stack mean more? A playful look at conservation of number, hidden inside a dog story. Paperback on Amazon now. Stay Curious. TheWhatIfBooks.com
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Howie Hua@howie_huaSep 30
My college students said they wish they were taught this way of finding the greatest common factor when they were in school
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Robert Kaplinsky@robertkaplinskySep 5
Math openers promote rigorous student thinking and discourse at the beginning of each class. Dan Finkel from Math for Love provides over a dozen free openers on his website: mathforlove.com/lessons/open… And here's his online workshop on openers: grassrootsworkshops.com/work…

Openers - Math For Love

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Sally Cole
@lolfutureJul 15
Anthropic just gave free AI access to every K-12 teacher in the US via Claude for Teachers. This article examines the 222,865 academic standards built into the tool and pinpoints the most problematic spots. I wish we were building on a more solid foundation. Curious to hear other opinions on this. @rastokke @educatedandfree
Lesson Hollow
@chiefclankerJul 15

Inside Claude for Teachers: Where Its 222,865 Standards Come From

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Lots of people asking about the shift to permanent daylight savings. The data clearly show locking to standard is best. For mental and physical health. That am sunlight is key, But if not, then locking to daylight savings second best. Shifting back-and-forth is the worst choice.
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🐾 It's official! My first book, What If It's Mine Now?, is out now! 📚 Come see what happens when Teddy walks away from his bowl... and I get some ideas. 📚 amazon.com/dp/B0H8WSGXHS?spc… Stay Curious. 🐾
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My first picture book is out: What If It's Mine Now? It is about my own corgis each trying to make sense of the world in their own way, with mathematical thinking at the heart of every story in this series. 📚 amazon.com/dp/B0H8WSGXHS?spc…
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Fawn Nguyen@fawnpnguyenJul 5
Last week in Phoenix, a teacher filled in "school math is ___" with one word: required. New post about this deadpan truth. fawnnguyen.substack.com/p/th…
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Acutely Curious@acutelycuriousJul 5
Replying to @DrBradJohnson
If a classroom runs on curiosity, tech deepens the thinking. If it runs on compliance, tech just emphasizes the answer-getting. Technology's not the cause here—it's the amplifier.
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Acutely Curious@acutelycuriousJul 3
AI can generate a lesson in seconds. It can't tell you if it's right for these students today. Teaching is hundreds of judgment calls a day: - What's the misconception? - Struggle, or step in? - Real thinking, or busywork? What's a call AI can't make for you?
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"I'm not a math person." I've heard this more times than I can count. And it tells me something — not about math ability, but about math identity. New post: pattypapers.wordpress.com/20… #math #iteachmath #MTBoS

Extending the Invitation

What a familiar disclaimer reveals about math identity I was cofacilitating a professional development session for special education teachers who teach math. It was the kind of day that feels produ…

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Contextualized procedure is not the same thing as problem solving. Most story problems have already made the important mathematical decisions for students. That's worth understanding. New post at Patty Papers 👇 pattypapers.wordpress.com/20…

A Story Problem Isn’t Problem Solving

There’s a task that appears in nearly every math classroom, at nearly every grade level, in nearly every curriculum. It goes something like this: Marcus has 48 trading cards. He gives 15 to h…

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Acutely Curious@acutelycuriousJun 23
Anyone can copy a prompt. Not anyone can judge the output. That's the difference between AI use and AI expertise. And it's why we built the ELF Framework. acutelycurious.com/elf-frame… #MathEducation #AIforEducators #MTBoS #ITeachMath
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Three AI tools analyzed a stack of exit tickets. All three made the same mistake. One teacher caught it immediately. That gap is the whole story. #AIinEducation #TeacherExpertise pattypapers.wordpress.com/20…

The Teacher in the Room

What a stack of exit tickets can teach us about AI — and about teaching A teacher I work with handed three AI tools the same job last week. Sixteen scanned exit tickets. A lesson goal — solving sys…

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End of the school year vibes
cats with jobs 🛠
@CatWorkersMay 29
The new interns have arrived.
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From Patty Papers: The Completion Problem. pattypapers.wordpress.com/20… #math #iteachmath #MTBoS

The Completion Problem

Last week I wrote about a worksheet in Google Forms still being a worksheet. A few people reached out to say it named something they’d been feeling for a long time but hadn’t quite foun…

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Matt Miller 🗑️
@jmattmillerMay 7
Teachers: Here's what research says about AI detectors. #teacher #teacherlife #teachersfollowteachers #edtech #aidetectors
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From Patty Papers: A Worksheet in Google Forms is Still a Worksheet. pattypapers.com #iteachmath #MTBoS

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Separating Prime Cuts of Math Education and Instructional Technology from Common Mystery Meat

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30+ years in math education and I'm still finding better ways to think about activity design. I created a thing and think it's the real deal. Try it for free. 👇 #mathed #iteachmath #TeacherAppreciationDay
Acutely Curious@acutelycuriousMay 8
That math activity you've used for years? It could be so much more. The Activity Makeover Tool takes any worksheet, warm-up, or card sort → 3 concrete ways to reimagine it as a richer digital experience. Free. No sign-up. acutelycurious.com #mathchat #mathed #MTBoS
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30 years in K-12 Math ed. This is what I built. Retweet if you know a math teacher who needs this. AcutelyCurious.com #TeacherAppreciationWeek
Acutely Curious@acutelycuriousMay 5
Most digital math activities look interactive but ask students to do nothing more than click the right answer. That's not interactivity, it's digitized paper. Two free tools to help math teachers design better 👇 acutelycurious.com #MTBoS #iteachmath
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