Nana, earth lover, care-giver, learner, teacher, math lover, collaborator. Seeking joy, serenity and hope. Opinions my own.
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Mathematics.
Please enjoy these curve-fitting methods.
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Source: Randall Munroe, xkcd/2048/
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When we lose the Arctic we lose the planet
Tariffs will be the least of your worries
'Ominous milestone for the planet': Arctic Ocean's 1st ice-free day could be just 3 years away, alarming study finds
livescience.com/planet-earth…
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Accelerating warming means a quadratic trendline. And it seems to fit pretty well, showing a current anomaly of 1.38°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline and even faster warming ahead.
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And by σ I mean standard deviation.
If you don't understand what this means, it's just a tad too complicated to explain in tweets. But essentially these values are far far beyond anything even vaguely normal when considering the odds of them happening by purely by chance.
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Unpopular opinion: There are two tendencies that are, by themselves, devastating indictments of our entire civilisation.
The first is gardening for aesthetics rather than biodiversity. Our landscapes are deathscapes and we call them "pretty", WTAF.
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This is getting ridiculous.
OISST provides a real-time daily index of ocean surface temperature (60 S - 60 N). For the last month it has been continuously reading higher than in any previous year and still shows no sign of settling.
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Great to hear our fabulous new director Tahlia De Corsa on @OttawaMorning! 🎵Celebrate 🎵with us and our #liveband Deep Groove on Saturday Dec. 10! Tickets and donations to the @OttawaFoodBank at bigsoulproject.com. #ottcity
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There are really only two flaws with using tests to assess learning: Right answers often don’t reflect real understanding, and wrong answers often don’t reflect the absence of understanding.
(Note that this is true of teacher-designed tests, not just the standardized kind.)
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Thinking about my boards commitment to destreaming Grade 10 math next year and have all students take the Grade 10 Academic course (with Ministry addendums so that it follows the content of 1W). A thread 🧵
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Do you consider yourself a reflective math teacher? Do you consider Ss social-emotional needs? Consider joining my study. mclaurinseries.blogspot.com/…
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If we’re going to have serious conversations about our students’ #mentalhealth, we need to address one of the major triggers of stress and anxiety for them, a nonsensical and ineffective system that varies from hour-to-hour and year-to-year: grades.
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Ss provide us with more insight about our teaching than any other resource or person. Ss continually speak to us through their learning and struggles. We just need to take the time to listen, value their messages, and make the necessary changes to our practice.
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Kindness, small acts & all, can go along way this time of year. Let’s spread some kindness this December & behind. @actionhappiness @smgaillard #DoGoodDecemeber #Trendthepositive #Kindness
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Van, thank you for expressing the sorrow and relief that we all feel. My hope is that those who hoped for a different outcome will take a moment to empathize with the pain so many of us have felt over the past four years.
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😯 *Furiously taking notes* — had a class Spotify playlist in NBE last spring, but embedding it in Brightspace is next level #OCV
Added a @Spotify music playlist to my #Brightspace class. Students can recommend songs they like or they feel are related to what we're studying in class. Had to start it off with some @MariahCarey though. 😉
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I made a little set of @desmos reflection screens to reinforce @saravdwerf's "Get off the escalator" and "Be the Beagle" mindset work. Adapted from @joelbezaire's "Hulk" reflection screen. #iteachmath #mtbos teacher.desmos.com/activityb…
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“Mr. Milliano, why do you always make us draw the origin in our graph and not let us have any jumps in our axis scale?”
