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NYSMTP Summer Conference

Next week I’ll be attending and presenting at the New York State Master Teacher Program’s annual Summer Conference at SUNY Cortland.

The NYSMTP summer conference brings together Master Teachers from around New York state for two days of professional learning and networking. The theme of this year’s conference is “Convergence”, and features presentations from Dr. C. Alex Young from NASA, mathematician Steven Strogatz from Cornell, and New York’s Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

I’ll be presenting Scratch Across the Math Curriculum with Dan Anderson, a Master Teacher from New York’s Central Region. Dan and I will be sharing our work bringing computer science into math class using the Scratch programming language. This is a continuation of the work I’ve been sharing at workshops and conferences across the country the past several years.

I’m proud to be a part of the NYS Master Teacher program through Math for America, the NYC-based organization that served as a model for the state program, and I’m grateful to MfA for their support in participating in events like the NYSMTP’s summer conference.

08/12/2018 — Happy Permutation Day!

Today we celebrate a Permutation Day! I call days like today permutation days because the digits of the day and the month can be rearranged to form the year.

In addition to being a Permutation Day, today’s date can also be read as a palindromic number, since 81218 reads the same forwards and backwards.

Celebrate Permutation Day by mixing things up! Try doing things in a different order today. Just remember, for some operations, order definitely matters.

By MrHonner, 8 yearsAugust 12, 2018 ago

Resources

Story Collider Podcast

I performed at a Story Collider event earlier this year and now my story is featured on their podcast!

The mission of the Story Collider is to share true, personal stories about science. Their latest podcast is titled Loneliness: Stories About Finding Friends, and it features my story about how my relationship with math has changed over the course of my life and career. It also includes a poignant story from physicist Cindy Joe about her experience working at Fermilab and her pet snail.

You can find the podcast, and the transcript of my story here, and you can see a video of my talk here.

Geometry Photography

Math Photo: Congruent Arcs

I was surprised to see this structure overhead. It brought to mind the theorem about parallel lines creating congruent arcs when intersecting circles, as well as one of my favorite math photos.

By MrHonner, 8 yearsJuly 22, 2018 ago

Resources Teaching

2018 National STEM Teacher Ambassador

I’m proud to announce that I am a 2018-19 National STEM Teacher Ambassador!

Through a National Science Foundation grant, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) jointly created a National STEM Teacher Ambassador program that brings together accomplished teachers from across the country for intensive training in policy, media, and advocacy. The goal is to create a network of teachers equipped to advocate for STEM education and related issues at the district, state, and national level.

The program is only open to teachers who have received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and admission is very competitive. I’m honored to have been chosen, and I have already benefited greatly from meeting and working with the other nine teachers in my cohort.

You can find out more about the 2018 Teacher Ambassadors here, and learn more about the program at the NSTA website. You can also find NCTM’s press release here.

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By MrHonner, 8 yearsJuly 19, 2018 ago

NYSMTP Summer Conference

08/12/2018 — Happy Permutation Day!

Story Collider Podcast

Math Photo: Congruent Arcs

2018 National STEM Teacher Ambassador

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