Dr. Amanda Ruiz

I’m @mandizzle on threads.

@eschy12 I feel like this is how I might have been taught this in school…but I never learned it. It never made sense. It was after college that I leaned to split the middle term and factor by grouping from a student I was tutoring and it blew my mind.

I love how teachers fall back on the fallacy about "in the real world you need to meet deadlines/show up on time". In the real world you do that because you get PAID. Telling students to do that is propaganda to work hard for less. Deadlines, mark deduction, zeros, etc. is a

@LeNoirMalgreLui @Mathgarden Personally I think it is valid to have a deadline in order to make class management possible. But making deadlines hard for the sake of preparing them for life is flawed.

@Mathgarden I teach 150 students. 3 different levels. I give 9 assessments/quarter per class. That’s: 150*9 = 1350 assessments I must grade. I grade a minimum of 6 practice exercises per quarter. 6*150=900. 1350+900= 2250 items to grade & provide feedback. How do I manage w/o deadlines?

@dhabecker Both of these 1s represent 10. I would tell them it is a shortcut way to say they are adding 10

How might we explain this to a 2nd or 3rd grader?

@pwharris Convert to 10/3 Div 4. Then rewrite 40/12 div 4 = 10/12

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It’s really cute, our math tutors made mathy valentines and put them all over the department. But is this one really appropriate? 🤣😳🫣🧐 instagram.com/p/CosL-q6r35fA…

@matthematician It it’s one I don’t use often, I rely on examples and non-examples to remind me what the pieces should be. Sentences are also used often, and I encourage students to write their own sentences. There are some definitions that I remember verbatim, but those are less common.

@melissag427 I see if differently. Part of the issue is we don’t call kids mathematicians at all, as if we assume they are not and never will be. A struggling reader seems like a temporary condition of a future thriving reader. I am all for deleting deficit terminology though.

Why do we call kids "struggling readers"? We don't call them "struggling mathematicians." It just seems so fixed, final, and deficit.

I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives. The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing. Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:

@ErikaTCamacho @AWMmath @LatinasinSTEM @AliciaPL25 @LuisLeyvaEdu @MathFeed @TheSIAMNews @amermathsoc @aaas @HACUNews @DrGrantEmpowers @BerondaM @heatherbe7 @KamuelaYong You deserve all the recognition. Congratulations!

So humbled & honored to be receiving this recognition by @AWMmath and grateful for the support of amazing individuals! @LatinasinSTEM @AliciaPL25 @LuisLeyvaEdu @MathFeed @TheSIAMNews @amermathsoc @aaas @HACUNews @ProfessARuiz @DrGrantEmpowers @BerondaM @heatherbe7 @KamuelaYong

@NaeheeK @NolanFossum @Thanheiser @YehCathery @JennHagman @UCLAMathProject I’d love to hear about it.

@NolanFossum @Thanheiser @YehCathery @ProfessARuiz @JennHagman and I created a whole thang on wealth distribution, inspired by this lesson for our #hiddenstats program at @UCLAMathProject lets chat about it!

Kicking things off at the #NCTMLA22 preconference session with an investigation of wealth distribution with @Thanheiser @YehCathery @ProfessARuiz and Basil Conway. So impactful!

Being a teacher is one of the best ways to fight for social justice.

@jacksonfulton2 If only they made them for women. SMH.

I’m sorry maybe i just don’t get fashion but this “bag” being almost $1800 is the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen and further proves my point that Balenciaga is just a social experiment to see how much people will pay if you just stick a designer name on something.

👏 We love to see it! 🔥 Immigrant youth taking to the streets 10 years after DACA to win permanent protections for ALL!! 📲 Text '10 Years' to 877-877 to take action! twitter.com/UNITEDWEDREAM/…

@blkmathmagic @doctor_jekel It would be interesting to casually ask the men what percent of the people there are women (at a moment where they can’t look around at the group). They will likely estimate higher than reality.

This student wanted to do an artistic calculus project.