#5Kperday Jan 5 3.1 mile walk to work. Super cold. Not a lot of thinking today, just shivering!

The contempt that our country's business class has for teachers and the work of teaching seems pretty well bottomless.

Me pivoting to Zoom class after planning a face-to-face class... x.com/JonMHamm/statu…

The way it makes so many people anxious, scared and bored of math, while rarely showing them how fun, creative and awesome math can be.

Credit: I made this, and it appears in chalkdust chalkdustmagazine.com/regulars/i-hea…

Kids can’t go to school. Believers can’t go to church. Families can’t go to the grocery store. Friends can’t go to a concert. And now fans can’t go to a SUPER BOWL PARADE without the real fear of being a part of a mass shooting in America. WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Thank you for this carefully constructed research summary Alfie Kohn alfiekohn.org/blogs/clt/

"I have discovered things so wonderful that I was astounded ... out of nothing I have created a strange new world." Bolyai developing non-Euclidean geometry. College & career readiness is fine, but that quote is 99% of "why math?" Learn math. Become Life, the creator of worlds.

Year 5 of professoring is in the books! I successfully submitted my P&T materials. Next semester, I'll be a newly teured, associate professor! #Appstate is a great place to work, and Boone is a wonderful town to live in!

Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions y = x

Can we count on your support? Never Forget!!!! #duckpondbaby Appalachian State App State Football App State Athletics

Now hiring for Assistant/Associate Professor appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/47647

In North Carolina, Remnants of Helene Become an ‘Unprecedented Tragedy’ nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/…

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, and lightning does not travel in a straight line. The complexity of nature's shapes differs in kind, not merely degree, from that of the shapes of ordinary geometry, the geometry of fractal shapes." - Benoit B. Mandelbrot

Gave a talk at School Science and Mathematics Association Annual Convention on Ungrading: A conversation with teacher educators. Thanks for the great turnout! - via #Whova event app

Migrating to Bluesky to find my mathematics friends, education colleagues, and fellow mathematics educators. bsky.app/profile/clduby…