.James Tanton I taught your “solution to a quadratic equation w/o completing the square” today with my prospective teachers. We had fun and I got to brag about you a bit!

Webb’s first full-color images are now the world’s to enjoy! We hope you found them as meaningful and beautiful as we did. Here’s to many years of Webb science — we can’t wait to see what’s next as we continue to #UnfoldtheUniverse! go.nasa.gov/3ccf2lf

No person - young or old - can reach their potential if they don’t get out of their comfort zone. -- “A calm stress is “the best state to be in to allow students’ executive functioning to flourish." - @JasonAblin author of 'The Gender Equation in Schools' soundcloud.com/bill-davidson-…

"Pi day is just a fake holiday created by math companies to sell more math." Shame on them! Here is today's smart joke: What day is the real Pi day?

Want to find out why Mental Math is so important to a K-6 grade math curriculum? Listen to Bill Davidson's podcast to find out!

Dr. Baldridge explains the mental math strategy of multiplying 25 by a multiple of 4 and how this helps students later understand that 2x * x = 2x^2. teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast soundcloud.com/bill-davidson-… Scott Baldridge

..."You're trying to lead your students into the more powerful tools of algebra where all the big types of wonderful jobs out there...use these on a regular basis." - Scott Baldridge teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast soundcloud.com/bill-davidson-…

"It's not so much about bragging rights to being able to compute numbers with really big digits. It's - as a teacher - 'How can I use these strategies to help my students build flexibility w/ their number sense?'" -Scott Baldridge teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast soundcloud.com/bill-davidson-…

Dr. Baldridge, research mathematician at LSU: "There's more to math than simply knowing a procedure to do a calculation. The Ss that have 5 different ways to do a calculation...

...those are the ones you will see as engineers & doctors & lawyers, because they're thinking analyticially;...and, it's that analytic thinking that you're trying to encourage." teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast soundcloud.com/bill-davidson-… Scott Baldridge

Listen to Scott Baldridge mentally calculate 76 x 74 and & explain how his strategy relates to (a + 1)(a - 1) = a^2 - 1. teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast soundcloud.com/bill-davidson-… Scott Baldridge Autumn Baldridge Eureka Math Amber Reid Eureka Math

Learn about the Tip & Cashier's method for mental math. teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast soundcloud.com/bill-davidson-… Scott Baldridge Autumn Baldridge

My guest for episode 96 of Centering the Pendulum was Dr. Scott Baldridge, research mathematician at LSU. Check out some of the videos of his daughter, Autumn Baldridge doing mental math here: scottbaldridge.net/growing-up-wit… teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast soundcloud.com/bill-davidson-…

.@LSUMath's Lillian Powell takes on the task of decoding post-game traffic around Tiger Stadium. Blending chaos theory and data-driven analysis, learn how she is working to keep the flow geauxing. 🚗 lsu.edu/science/news_e… LSU Research @LSUDiscover #GeauxTigers #GeauxScience

Okay, the following issue came up today while writing a new paper with my coauthor, Ben McCarty :

This week I am visiting Oxford to give a talk on the four color theorem. Here is the real Hogwarts dinning hall. How cool is that?!

LSU Giving Day is TODAY: Join me in support of the LSU Mathematics Department, the College of Science, and, of course, LSU! I donated over $50 today as a Giving Day ambassador. Can you spare $25? givingday.lsu.edu/pages/college-…

“These are very simple versions of representation theory…You replace a hard problem with a picture…This asking them to create the problem is in fact a very mathematical thing that mathematicians and scientists do as adults and at some level, ...

...it is building the necessary components for a child to do mathematics.” - Dr. Scott Baldridge on the “Writing a Word Problem to Match a Diagram” problem solving method podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bil… teacherbilldavidson.com/infusing-dynam… Scott Baldridge

“It’s not that a model is necessarily right or wrong, but we're trying to see how can we express our thinking by a model and this is a more helpful way to express our thinking.” - Susan Midlarsky, tape diagramming expert & author of The Art of Learning Math a Manual for Success