Nathaniel Highstein

@SteveRides So glad that you found it. Hope that your students found some learning!

Just tried @nhighstein's Desmos activities on Voronoi Diagrams! Wow. teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilde… I've been having fun writing fairly compact code for VDs. desmos.com/calculator/coa…

As a people, we need to stop looking up to thugs & celebrities as role models. Maybe we need better leaders. Maybe it’s the stop snitching culture. All I know is that we must stop playing the victim & excusing criminal behavior This tweet is about Donald Trump And America

As Orange County's Congresswoman, I condemn yesterday's decision—made during #PrideMonth, no less—by the Board of Supervisors to ban the Pride flag from being flown on county property. This month and every month, we should be lifting up our LGBTQ+ neighbors, not excluding them.

New TikTok video: Have you ever wondered why the geometric mean of 2 numbers is sqrt(ab)? Here's how we can see it visually!

Every time I watch a @howie_hua video, I want to stand up and applaud. #MTBoS #ITeachMath

It is shocking and appalling that we do not have a code of ethics for our Supreme Court. This blatant corruption cannot continue. Congress must serve as a check on the Court by passing legislation mandating an ethics code.

Paid leave and affordable child care make it possible for the best and brightest to stay in the workforce and succeed at the highest levels. Our global competitors invest in family policy because it's smart economic policy.

"I believe in you." With these personalized bookmarks, the right words of encouragement are never far away: (Created by T @AlexisDBurnett, spotted by educator @serita_nicole) #TeacherTwitter

Things that did _not_ kill kids today: - a renaissance sculpture - a film about Ruby Bridges - drag queen story time - the word ‘tampon’ - critical race theory - woke banks - saying that Rosa Parks was Black - gender-affirming care - ‘The Bluest Eye’ What did: -an AR-f––ing-15

@CoreyJPeltier @mathillustrated We do an interview assessment where we give students the problems ahead of time or “show that” problems.They are not being assessed on problem solving in this task, but on their mathematical communication and conceptual understanding. We have a script and a rubric to avoid bias.

Anyone here want to talk about how awesome such interviews can be? #MTBoS #ITeachMath #math

The Spiral of Theodorus is formed by right-triangles with a height of 1 unit. What’s mind blowing is that the rings formed each have the same area. 🤯 #mtbos #iteachmath

"The science of math says that explicit instruction is the most effective way to teach." This is true if "explicit" means teachers are explicit about what STUDENTS know, and work with that knowledge. Much less true if we mean teachers being explicit about what TEACHERS know.

My lovely y7 students rocking Genius Hour! #proudTeacherMoment

@KentHaines Square numbers I love this too. Also love sneaking in some functions and geometry: something like “What’s the probability that a thrown dart lands in the shape bounded by the following 3 linear functions.”

Here's one of my favorite math problems. Can you find 1,000? (Solution video posted below)

PLEASE SHARE/RETWEET: Why is teaching so difficult? What reasons surface to the top for you/colleagues? I ask bc: 1. It is 2. Hoping we can help each other w targeted & real solutions 3. None of us is alone in our struggles, but fewer of these & more rewards would be nice! 🙏

In case you missed it, Oklahoma’s newly elected State Superintendent of Education apparently thinks“woke” equals a Black/Brown Santa

"No man needs to impersonate women to sexually assault women. Trans people do not put cisgender women at risk. It's wage inequality, women's care burden, and sexist male aggressors that put us at risk." — Irene Montero, Spain's Minister of Equality

New TikTok video: Can this line exist?