Adil Jaffer

This year we decided on Mathematics being the theme for arts week... in a school with 50 primary classes that's a lot of variety. Here is some of the children and teachers came up with:

@CeraGibson Re: aging population. I wonder if that's more a broken economic model rather than about sustaining working populations to support the old. Tbh I follow your insta for a while already and i dont have you down as a race elite genocider. Didnt mean to take the post in bad faith. :)

@CeraGibson There's some broad calculation somewhere that if we all consumed like the US we could need 14 earths. But if we all consumed like the average Indian then it's far far less than 1 whole earth. And that's the more justice related conversation I think needs to be brought up.

My hot take is that birth rates need to decline in the short term so that in the long term, we aren’t completely void of resources and ozone. “The economy will collapse.” There is more than enough wealth on the planet to go around. Capitalism is built on exponential population growth. It cannot survive without it. You’re fed a narrative about birth rates that protects our current economic system. It feels like there isn’t enough capital to go around because a handful of people are hoarding it, and passing the consequences onto you. We are nowhere near extinction due to population decline. We are far more likely to go extinct because of climate change. Are we presently equipped to handle a majority elderly population in a few decades? No. Could we be if we valued actual longevity over production? Yes.

'No Palestinians and rubble are far as the eye can see' What is Gaza like four months on from the ceasefire? @RichardEngel returns, embedded with the IDF, and tells @SkyYaldaHakim about the sheer scale of destruction he witnessed.

Looks like Tony Blair is very determined to confirm his status as one of the worst persons alive. His speech is pure 19th century colonialism: he frames the Gaza issue as one of "ineffective governance" on the part of the Palestinians, without as much as mentioning the 17-year blockade, the occupation, or the small matter of the deadliest assault on a civilian population this century. I'd love to understand how you build "effective institutions" when: - Your airport was destroyed by Israel in 2001 - Your seaport is blockaded - Building materials are banned as "dual use" - Your university gets bombed every few years - Your civil servants can't travel for training - Your economy is strangled by design - Your people and government officials are routinely killed in devastating attacks And he uses this, the eminently predictable outcome of this continuous strangling of a people, as evidence that they can't govern themselves and that they require outside management by the architects of their immiseration. Absolutely repugnant, no other word for it.

@mathillustrated Why is that book incriminating?! Are there contexts where that work has been controversial?! I thought it was a wonderful piece of work.

snooping on other people’s desks, taking photos, and then judging them on social media? 🤔

I'm not going to post any mathematics education content until the genocide stops. That's all that matters now to me. We should stop doing anything until this stops, and our governments stop making it happen. Enough.

Why critical pedagogy is so important now more than ever…

Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there’s no such thing as a politically neutral education, a politically neutral curriculum, or a politically neutral pedagogy.

@CuisenaireCo My friend is going back to the street to look for them... Will report back!

A Dutch set of cuisenaire. A friend saw them somewhere today and knew I'd appreciate the photo! How sweet ❤️❤️

@MxKantEven earth.org/data_visualiza… - here is an article on the ppm, co2 and climate effect lag we usually expect.

@MxKantEven Have you a source for this please? There's no doubt that carbon emissions from the genocide are enormous, it was my understanding temperature rise follows carbon dioxide levels approx. 10-15 years on. i.e. its not instant.

I actually had forgotten that school league tables even exist... Like, how is that a thing?!

@jasebyjason We need Mick Lynch to run..

Mathematics Teaching Issue 292 is now available online. Included are two open access articles, 'Shaping Thinkers' Thinking by Anne Watson & John Mason and 'The Montessori cycle of activity and learning in mathematics by Julian Swindale. Read both articles bit.ly/3VMMEcj

Why I coined the term ‘Pedagogy of Professional Decline’. If this bothers you too. Keep calling it out. leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie…

This means teaching them is a whole different ball park and that the environment is a huge factor. Sometimes it's even called the '3rd teacher' (the first and second being adults and other children). And if you don't factor in the environment, you have your work cut out. Lots of