emma

math educator/learner, 2020 Big Apple Fellow, she/her #MfAProud, Black Lives Matter

[Dianne Morales @Dianne4NYC]

Policing ≠ public safety.

[emma @miemmakate]

@MadisonPayton2 @AmberCook_ My first year teaching. One of my best friends and fellow teachers told me “you aren’t here to save kids you’re here to educate them” and I realized that I had a white savior complex and that my whiteness and lack of reflection about race was harming my students.

[emma @miemmakate]

Take 3 from the 28 to make 25 and add it to the 47 to make 50. 25 + 50 is 75.

Love the “what happens in your brain” prompt!

[Charles W McKinney, Jr. @CharlesWMcKinn2]

Final grading rubric:
You still here? 10,000 points.

[emma @miemmakate]

@MadisonPayton2 Yes!! Two of our 8th graders who are in a healing-centered counseling group just yesterday invited some of us (teachers) to engage in 4 lessons they created. I felt honored to be one of the teachers they picked and I’m more excited for it than any other PD this year.

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Okay I'm pretty proud of this meme lol.

[emma @miemmakate]

@howie_hua Why is this interesting? How can I make this into a puzzle that kids want to figure out.

[Jason To | 杜澤信 @Jason_To]

On #PiDay, this is just a friendly reminder that Babylonian and Egyptian mathematicians were doing the whole Pi thing hundreds of years before Archimedes ever did.

Cultural erasure happens in mathematics too...

[emma @miemmakate]

I was nominated by @MeetKateRyan to post a photo of a day in the life of an educator with no explanation and I love her so here it is.

[emma @miemmakate]

@_CrystalMWatson Agreed! A lot of these replies are 🤢. To defensive repliers: Math histories and teaching practices are systemically racist: google “mathematician.” Taking the focus away from the right answer to one question in one moment & focusing on thinking LEADS TO MORE correct answers

[emma @miemmakate]

@howie_hua 4 divided by 1/3 is easier for me to explain because I could use the idea of filling up a fraction to equal 1 so there are 4 1s in 4 and each of those 1s is 3 thirds. For context I would use measuring cups to first establish that 3 1/3 cups fill up 1 cup and so on

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Today, there are no Black women in the U.S. Senate because our nation’s second-ever Black woman senator is now becoming our first-ever Black woman VP.

Black women shouldn't have to sacrifice our representation at one table to have a seat at another. Elect more Black women.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

$1400 < $2000

Math teachers know this. That $600 is already in the clutches of landlords and bill collectors. Stop compromising the working class, and our most vulnerable neighbors.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Unity begins with the truth, and the truth demands accountability. Here are five reasons we must impeach, convict, and bar Donald Trump from ever holding office again.

[Paul McLeod @pdmcleod]

“Thank you to the president for his efforts to defeat MS-13 in my district,” says Rep. Lee Zeldin, who represents the Hamptons.

[m @mary__retta]

Just learned that incarcerated workers will be forced to make the new furniture that replaces what was destroyed in the Capitol. This Tik Tok does a really good job of breaking it down:

[Paul Forbes @PaulForbesNYC]

Preach 🗣@JoyAnnReid 👏🏾👏🏾 Thank you!
This is righteous indignation.
Folks, take 5 minutes and listen to this...then listen again...and again!

[blackness everdeen @traceyecorder]

Today has shown police don’t need de-escalation training, they choose who to escalate on, that’s not a training issue. Police don’t need unconscious bias training, they are conscious of their bias.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

"White Americans are not afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of the cops. Even when they are committing insurrection." --Just a few words from @JoyAnnReid moments ago on @MSNBC, in one of the most powerful statements I've ever heard on television.