benjamin dickman
K-12 math educator 🪄♾️
Brookline to Nanjing to NYC
Amherst College BA
Fulbright Program x2 (🇨🇳+🇵🇭)
Teachers College, Columbia University PhD
past BU Wheelock (postdoc, Math Edu)
cocreated original word game: #FiddleBrix
tinyurl.com/bmdmaths
- 413 YKTV 🗣️
- in #MathsToday, i asked students whether a collection of sequences are arithmetic, geometric, both, or neither: one of the examples: 6, -12, __, -48, __, …
- "The team of part-time curriculum developers will be part of BEAM's Curriculum and Design Team." Read more about this part time decision to engage with BEAM! Please share with others for whom it seems appropriate: job-boards.greenhouse.io/beam/jobs/46... s/o @mpershan.bsky.social — #iTeachMath ♾️!
- "Further research is encouraged, especially in the context of cesarean matrices and post-partum group theory." www.obstetricgynecoljournal.com/index.php/cj... 👁️👄👁️
- Is "cancellation" possible for the Choose function? For example, is this true? Choose(ap,bp) = Choose(a,b) lol no, not in general But! mod p where p is prime? Yes! Also true mod p^2 Amazingly, it still seems true mod p^3 (need p>5) Experiment!: www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Mod%... #iTeachMath ♾️
- 2026 Summer Math in the Mountains [MitM] link just dropped: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- lighthearted, feel good article: www.10tv.com/article/news... cc. #iTeachMath ♾️
- when students get stuck on a Calc problem for which u substitution would be a reasonable and productive strategy, i simply leave a note that says "no u"
- broke: retweets ≠ endorsements woke: RT ≠ e bespoke: ✓ ≠ Σ1/n!
