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Seguimos aquí, solo que publicando un poco menos. Encuéntranos ➡️ @mathkindglobal en Instagram, Facebook y Threads.
🎉 Mathkind is beginning a new chapter with @abiruiz as our next executive director! Abi brings roots in math education and nonprofit leadership, with equity and community at the center. We’re excited for the leadership and vision she'll bring to what’s ahead! #MathForHumankind
🧸 End-of-year classroom cleanup can spark some critical thinking. Take this stuffed guest, for example. Is it behind the desk, beside the desk, under the desk, or all of the above? Even the quietest classroom friend can create a math moment!
#WeekendWondering#RealWorldMath
💧 Clean water starts with curiosity. This Girls STEM Club student is testing a homemade water filter built with everyday materials. Through hands-on experiments like this one, girls discover that STEM can be a tool for helping their communities.
'The over-explaining trap'
The tricky balancing act of teacher talk...
"Explicit instruction is necessary, but the most effective explanations act as a springboard to launch students quickly into guided, and then independent, practice"
https://t.co/SLOD9WBRAZ
🚗 Memorial Day weekend in the US often means long drives and a classic trade-off: leave early and beat the traffic, or sleep a little later and take your chances. How would you decide? That’s a real-world math question worth taking for a spin! #WeekendWondering
🎓 It’s graduation season in the US. As students walk across the stage one by one, their names are called, usually in alphabetical order. But what if you were invited to rethink the tradition? Would you arrange students in a new way? #WeekendWondering
🎙️The latest episode of Adding It All Up is out now!
Francis Su joins the podcast to discuss the importance of building relationships, fostering curiosity, and creating meaningful human connections in the classroom.
🎧Listen here: https://t.co/cPrrGtyQhM
✨ On International Women in Mathematics Day, we’re celebrating the girls who see STEM as a place where they belong and the teachers who support that. When girls have opportunities to be recognized for their thinking, they begin to see new possibilities for themselves!
🎨 This artwork is full of bold shapes going in different directions. If you picked one color at random, do you think it would be a vertical or horizontal shape? What makes you think so? Sometimes taking a closer look helps us see the whole picture! #WeekendWondering
🌎 Could Guatemala be part of your summer? A group of math educators will travel there to build connections and learn alongside local teachers.
If this opportunity has been on your mind, now is the time to reach out! Scholarships are available.
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📊 What does it look like when math connects to the real world? Our 2025 Annual Report shares how teachers across Guatemala and Ecuador are trying new strategies and rethinking how ideas come to life in the classroom. Read more about this impact!
▶️ https://t.co/5qJyv0hdpb
🔢 Numbers have a way of showing up in the most interesting places. "20" might mark an address here, but it could also represent many other things depending on what you notice and how you count. Where else could you find twenty in this scene? #WeekendWondering
Take a look at this ceiling. You might notice a simple grid, but with closer inspection, patterns begin to appear. Larger rectangles are made up of smaller ones, and shapes overlap. How many different rectangles do you think are hiding here? #WeekendWondering#MathIsEverywhere
📚 Change starts in the classroom! Join the Equity Faction and help bring meaningful math learning to students who deserve more opportunities.
👉 Your monthly support helps teachers create spaces where students think, question, and grow. https://t.co/mgD39tudcv
🐘 It's National Animal Crackers Day! You reach into a box without looking and grab a handful. Some animals show up more than others…or do they?
If you wanted to predict which one appears most, how many would you need to check? #WeekendWondering#MathIsEverywhere
🐘 It's National Animal Crackers Day! You reach into a box without looking and grab a handful. Some animals show up more than others…or do they? If you wanted to predict which one appears most, how many would you need to check?
#WeekendWondering#MathIsEverywhere
Mathematical reasoning helps in real life decision-making such as budgeting, comparing offers, and interpreting data. @TeachThought
9 Strategies To Help Students Build Mathematical Reasoning
https://t.co/A5lqm5IiPO
There’s a lot happening across the Mathkind community right now! Take a look at this month's newsletter and see how these moments are shaping meaningful math learning. #MathForHumankind https://t.co/K6g8Qgxytn