Philip Dituri, Ph.D.

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This is a fantastic article. People, for pretty good reasons, seldom check their prior assumptions or break free from their entrenched beliefs. It turns out that educators are people too. It's so hard for educators to break free from emulating their own experience.

Put experiences first & vocabulary second. Example: Don't tell students what slope is. Ask them to compare two lines with very different slopes. Let them struggle to describe, then say "That word you're searching for is slope." Don't give them the vocabulary until they need it.

I love the environment but I hate paper straws! There are scientific reasons they stink. I don't use straws but if I have to I like metal or bamboo. youtube.com/shorts/JCRWCck…

@xkcd I love this one. xkcd.com/3201/

We are at a pivotal moment in financial education with new mandates across the US. If you are part of the education community, or simply care about the financial futures of young people, please read this open letter authored by all of us at FiCycle. ficycle.org/open-letter/

Before the storm I helped a group of teachers "Make GroupWork the Norm." I had a lot of fun. This is just a reminder to all the teachers out there (even those digging out) to have FUN teaching today. If you're not having fun teaching, they definitely aren't having fun learning.

We've found more than 100 of these steel Roman dodecahedrons throughout Europe but no one knows what they were used for. They were fragile and unlikely to be tools. It looks like a game piece to me. I love stuff like this. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ano…

I've got 99 Problems but math teachers being awesome aint one. We had a good time at my workshop, "I Got 99 Problems: Teaching Problem Solving in Mathematics Classrooms." I'll be running it again on March 6th. Check out my other upcoming workshops here: url-shortener.me/82N6

Math is finance and we shouldn't try to separate these topics if we are concerned with students real-life financial behavior after schooling. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Any teacher can tell you that a large percentage of each class has been unable to read analog clocks for decades. It's been true for at least 20 years in my personal experience. (Which is a shame because I like analog clock problems! Also life.) gothamist.com/news/nyc-phone…

I welcome having another number that makes kids smile and adults roll their eyes. xkcd.com/3184/

I've been very concerned as the sun continues to dip lower & lower in it's journey across the sky each day. I'm overjoyed it has stopped falling. /s (Happy Winter Solstice everyone! It is the most celebrated event of the year across all cultures.) pbs.org/newshour/scien…

Regardless of where you fall on the political divide, if you care about children or education you should find this concerning: ”70% of high school principals say ICE is taking a toll on their schools k12dive.com/news/UCLA-repo…

By taking away professional designation from healthcare workers, higher ed faculty & public employees, this administration is making colleges more expensive & making worker shortages worse. Tell Congress to stop the disrespect of our workers! actionnetwork.org/letters/7450ea… @AFTUnion

I love that we have these new introduction videos for each of our units. It's my hope that they will help to frame a student's course of study for them in a format that feels familiar and easy. youtube.com/shorts/SZWoTLA…

I'm presenting tomorrow at the AMTNJ Conference at Brookdale Community College in NJ. "Financial Life Cycle: Centering a Math Curriculum on Financial Applications," at 1pm. Come check it out if you're there! Or msg me if you want to chat about it. (The pic is from NCTM ATL)

I love when seemingly unpredictable, messy and complicated phenomenon can be modeled and described using mathematics. The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-mat…

For the kids: A brother and sister go trick or treating. At the first 3 houses, they each get 7 pieces of candy. At the next 2 houses, they each get 4 pieces. Then a witch gives them 9 pieces to share. How many pieces do they have at the end of the night? Happy Halloween