Tim Stirrup

If you are serious about better mathematics education - be it in a traditional classroom or supported by tech, then ignoring the QAMA really means you are just happy with mediocrity. Sorry. Take a look and if you think they are not worth the time or effort - PLEASE say why. This is one of those times when silence means complicity with the poor substitute for thought that calculators have generally become.

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Haiku's are for life, not just for... April 17th ! Although today is International Haiku day, you can use Poemblender any day of the year. For Mathematics and English teachers.

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On a “is this a right angle?’ exercise years ago, I did also see this. From a student who did not have English as their first language. Right angle Right angle Wrong angle Right angle Wrong angle Which sort of makes sense as well. A bit like driving on the right side of the road, which in the UK is the left side of the road!

How hard can it be to teach 25 kids to use a protractor? The traditional way? Practically impossible. The protractor can be crooked. Upside down. Off center. Flipped. Or all of the above. And then they can read the wrong numbers. Throw in terms like “acute,” “obtuse” and “right” and it’s aggravation for all. So what’s the solution? Visual examples and practice problems where the protractor is lined up 𝘧𝘰𝘳 them, as in this activity from You Teach You, the first math method with an example for everything. “But wait!” I can hear the reply. “They need to be able to line up protractors correctly for themselves!” Of course they do. And after this activity, they see 𝘸𝘩𝘺. See YouTeachYou.org

Ok. A serious question all you who teach or use mathematics in the classroom. Why would you NOT use a QAMA calculator? Let’s just say for when demonstrating and needing to show a calculation where you use a normal on screen Calc. I am truly interested. What am I missing?

Here's where you get started -It's totally free, and simple to use. Try it first with colleagues? I am sure you can do better than my awful AI created Haikus! poemblender.com

April 17th is International Haiku Day! So, here's something for your mathematics/English classes! 1 ) Class discusses Haikus 2) Decide on your theme for the class. (Check out the tips to make this more effective) 3) Everyone enters their Haiku into Poemblender (link below) 4) Click the 'blend button' to see a new Haiku every time 5) Q: How many possible Haikus in YOUR class? 6) Q: if the whole school does this, how many haikus? How likely is it that the haiku you read will EVER be chosen again by random? 7) Print them out, share with Parents. Any other ideas?

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April 17th is International Haiku Day! So, here's something for your English class! Maybe work with your colleagues in Mathematics? 1) Class discusses Haikus 2) Decide on your theme for the class. (Check out the tips to make this more effective) 3) Everyone enters their Haiku into poemblender.com 4) Click the 'blend button' to see a new Haiku every time 5) Q: How many possible Haikus in YOUR class? Would they 'always work' 6) Q: if the whole school does this, how many haikus? How likely is it that the haiku you read will EVER be chosen again by random? 7) Print them out, share with Parents. Any other ideas?

@ThtPedagogyGeek Anyone would think you'd been a Head of English or something!

@timstirrup Or teach maths in class Let the lesson stay maths first Learning grows from that ~ Ancient Haiku 2026

April 17th is International Haiku Day! So, here's something for your mathematics class! Maybe work with your colleagues in English? 1) Class discusses Haikus 2) Decide on your theme for the class. (Check out the tips to make this more effective) 3) Everyone enters their Haiku into poemblender.com 4) Click the 'blend button' to see a new Haiku every time 5) Q: How many possible Haikus in YOUR class? 6) Q: if the whole school does this, how many haikus? How likely is it that the haiku you read will EVER be chosen again by random? 7) Print them out, share with Parents. Any other ideas? @EnglishAssoc @amieMathematics @robeastaway @mrbartonmaths @MrMattock @pdLouiseP @mathsjem @tessmaths @AJMagicMessage @dailystem @danicamckellar @howie_hua

And here's the @EnglishAssoc page about poetry and mathematics - englishassociation.ac.uk/let-me-count-t…

Sarah Hart mentions Raymond Queneau, which is where I got the idea from a few years back (On the shoulders of giants and so on...). I chose not to add sonnets for reasons of memory! But if asked... magazine.1000libraries.com/the-man-who-wr…

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I missed the QAMA on my phone. It just makes me think more. Not a bad thing really.

A good read. Although, of course given my interests, I think those using calculators could do with a 'feedback loop', as well as LLMs in education.

Estimation. Why?

I was just looking to do an article on calculators and the introduction/use of AI - but what a mess of AI manipulated images of that 1980s teachers photo exist! Check this one out... Yep, of course a mathematics teacher would write that on a banner. And that sort of rests my case! In the meantime, Here's an article with a related subject from 2018, when I didn't even know what an em-dash was! @timstirrup/the-worlds-first-a-i-enabled-calculator-ae28fddc7c19" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@timstirrup/th…