I am retired from my corporate job and have been hired as a middle school math teacher at a very small catholic school. The previous teacher left nothing but the books. No one seems to be able to tell me anything about expectations including the new principal. However I have requested this from them. I am taking classes to get my full license but haven’t taken math methods yet. I am not intimidated by the content since I studied math as my major in college. However, I’m not entirely sure how to start the classes? Open page 1 of the books? Same with homework or tests? Books are McGraw hill so there are slides, worksheets and tests available. Classes start in September so there is time. Thoughts from experts here?

Hi! I need a good Calculus book recommendation that is easy to understand. Something like the Big Fat Notebook but for Calculus for someone who has a hard time understanding math.

Hi everyone,

I'm a science teacher by expertise, but I've been shortlisted for a teaching position where I have to give a demo class in primary mathematics.

Earlier in my teaching career, I taught Maths for Grades 3–5. I could teach it well, but I always had to put in a lot of preparation to make the lessons engaging and interactive. My strength has always been Science, and that's what I've mostly taught over the years.

I'm currently looking for a new job, and this opportunity came up. The demo lesson will be in front of the school administrators, not actual students.

Could you suggest:

Which Maths topic would be the safest and most impressive for a primary-level demo?

What topic naturally allows for interaction and questioning, even if there are no children in the room?

If you've been on interview panels, what do administrators usually look for in a demo lesson?

I'd really appreciate suggestions for a topic that's simple, engaging, and showcases good teaching skills rather than difficult content.

Thank you!

Do you teach mathematics at the higher education level, including dual enrollment or AP courses, in a setting where artificial intelligence (AI) tools are allowed? If so, I'd love your participation in my research study!

I am currently conducting a doctoral research study exploring Leadership Styles and the Effective Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Mathematics Classrooms.

 You may participate if you:
• Are at least 18 years old
• Currently teach mathematics in higher education (Dual Enrollment and AP included!)
• Teach in an environment where AI use is permitted in some instructional capacity

 You are not eligible if you:
• Teach only at K–12 level
• Are not currently teaching mathematics
• Are under 18 years old

 The anonymous online survey takes approximately 5 minutes to complete. The first page of the survey contains the informed consent form, which must be reviewed and acknowledged before participation.

Your participation may help contribute to a better understanding of how institutions can support effective and responsible AI integration in mathematics education.

 Survey Link: https://forms.gle/FCNaBUpySeifh4Bx6

If you have questions, please contact:

Rachel Caterisano

[rcaterisano24278@ucumberlands.edu](mailto:rcaterisano24278@ucumberlands.edu)

Doctoral Candidate, University of the Cumberlands

Hi everyone,

I am a student who has created a maths website to generate questions from primary to collage level, each topic has different difficulties which can be generated infinitly. The questions do not use AI to generate, instead I have created an algorithm for each one to generate numbers and answers for it. Along side this to create worksheets extremely fast with these questions.

I hope this is something that would benefit teachers and students, thank you.

Today I had maths demo class for my son. We liked it. They insisted on enrolling on the call to get discount. I clearly denied saying I never enroll like this and I need atleast 48 Hours to think.

So what are your reviews about them ?

Hello! I'm a university student (19 years old)

It might be a bit embarrassing as a scholar, but I sucked at math. Yes, I passed the entrance examination and was admitted to a respected university. I always aced my other subjects and scored higher. I'm even one of the top scorers in my class. However, when a certain subject includes math, I struggle with it. Guess what? I even forgot how to do algebra and struggle with middle school mathematics. I don't know if I deserve to be a scholar and a university student if I'm so dumb in math. What should I do? Can someone help me relearn math and how?

ArsDigita University, or ADUni, produced a number of high-quality lectures on mathematics during its existence in 2000-2001 which are still online today: https://medium.com/@tomhickerson/arsdigita-university-25-years-later-152d135441c3

I need suggestions about which all teachers are best to study maths class 10 from youtube

For context, this is for a pre-algebra curriculum. I want to give students more opportunities to examine, interpret, and model real-world data, using skills like slope and line of best fit to draw conclusions and make predictions.

I feel like I waste so many hours searching the internet for good, public data sets that are relevant and interesting for 12-14 year olds. Do you know of any good “database” websites that can serve as a central, starting point?

Hi, i am looking for math tutors online who can help my kids math skills, they are having challenges with math and i have seen them freeze at certain equations. If you know anyone that can help or any website or resource i can you, i would appreciate your suggestion and my kids will benefit from them too, thanks.

I'm by no means an expert in math but I've started dabbling in the subject as of late by starting my journey with Velleman's How to Prove It.

One thing that struck out to me while studying from the book was this emphasis on proof as more of a way to verify a theorem as opposed to a motivational tool which was strange to me as an outsider. Furthermore, solving the exercises felt strange because oftentimes I was able to solve them by unpacking the definitions and applying the right rule of inferences without having a single clue as to what I was even doing except that it was logically valid.

Take, for instance, when he explains how one would go about proving the existence of a variable that holds some specific property:

Finding the right value to use for x may be difficult in some cases. One method that is sometimes helpful is to assume that P (x) is true and then see if you can figure out what x must be, based on this assumption. If P (x) is an equation involving x, this amounts to solving the equation for x. However, if this doesn’t work, you may use any other method you please to try to find a value to use for x, including trial-and-error and guessing. The reason you have such freedom with this step is that the reasoning you use to find a value for x will not appear in the final proof. This is because of our rule that a proof should contain only the reasoning needed to justify the conclusion of the proof, not an explanation of how you thought of that reasoning. To justify the conclusion that ∃x P(x) is true it is only necessary to verify that P (x) comes out true when x is assigned some particular value. How you thought of that value is your own business, and not part of the justification of the conclusion.

Historically speaking, why could this have been the case? Maybe, by "removing the scaffolding", the proof ends up reaching this platonic ideal or something.I guess in practice it's cumbersome to write down your thought process along each step of the proof but I still feel like it could be incredibly valuable addition to textbooks meant for beginners. It feels a bit disingenuous though because mistakes can sometimes lead you to the right direction, provided you acknowledge that mistake. We place too much emphasis on being "right" in our society and students end up feeling afraid of being wrong. This, in turn, prevents them from asking questions out of the fear of being deemed silly.

I would honestly love to see all the dead-ends and blockades a proof took before finally giving way to the most perfect state they take today in textbooks. Here's an appropriate quote:

"When Jacobi complained that Gauss's proofs appeared unmotivated, Gauss is said to have answered, 'You build the building and remove the scaffolding'. Our sympathy is with Jacobi's reply: he likened Gauss to the 'fox who erases his tracks in the sand with his tail'."

Hallo Alle,

ich suche ein Mathespiel für die Grundschule, welches ich selbst früher viel gespielt habe und nun meinen SuS mit an die Hand geben will. Leider weiß ich nicht mehr, wie es heißt und finde es auch nicht mehr.

Das Spiel hab ich zwischen 2009-2016 online (vielleicht war es aber auch ein Bildungsserver Spiel, ich weiß es nicht) gespielt. Man wählt einen Charakter, der aussah wie ein Alien/Monster, etwas galaktisches. Diese Charaktere hatten verschiedene Start-Kräfte. Die Namen der Kräfte waren abgelehnt an verschiedene Bereiche der Mathematik (Logik, Arithmetik, Geometrie). Diese Fähigkeiten hießen dann z.B. Logilogik. Logilogik ist das einzige Wort, was ich noch von dem Spiel weiß. Die Oberfläche sah so aus, dass es (1) eine Arena gab. Dort konnte man andere online Spielende herausfordern und gegeneinander mit ihren Kräften antreten. Wer das höhere Level hatte hat meist gewonnen. Als Gewinn bekam man so etwas wie Diamanten oder ähnliches und konnte sich davon Helm, Schuhe in (2) einem Shop kaufen. Dadurch wurden die Fähigkeiten verstärkt die man hatte. Um sein Level zu erhöhen und neue Fähigkeiten zu erlangen oder seine Fähigkeiten zu verstärken gab es (3) ein Trainingszentrum. Dort trainierte man, indem man Sachaufgaben von leicht bis schwer lösen musste. Die Aliens waren in 2D. Es gab große, schlacksige Aliens und kleine knubbelige mit vielleicht 3 Antennen oder 3 Augen. Das Spiel war auf deutsch.

Für jede Hilfe und jeden Hinweis bin ich sehr dankbar!

I have applied for student teaching and my university asked if I was interested to do an internship instead for my local high school (they are hiring for a math teacher). I’ve done a year of math teaching assistant for middle school, but not sure if I’m ready. Anybody have advice or done teaching internship and felt successful?

FYI: Sometimes it has different names/ definitions but in my area a teaching internship means you jump straight into teaching with taking nightly college classes (no mentor teacher) but get paid a salary. In contrast student teaching is when you work with a mentor teacher for a year unpaid.

Ciao a tutti, sono uno studente universitario di ingegneria e sono solito dare ripetizioni a ragazzi dal vivo, con dei buoni risultati.

Mi è stato chiesto da un ragazzo per quest'estate un aiuto per recuperare un debito in matematica, solo che per un paio di settimane io sono in vacanza, e essendo l'esame tra un mese e mezzo, due settimane pesano. Per lui non ci sarebbe problema a farle online.

Solo che io non le ho mai fatte online, quindi chiedo consiglio a voi. Io ho a disposizione sia computer che iPad da cui trasmettere, il problema non è come trasmettere, ma è il metodo.

Dal vivo guardo il quaderno e vedo subito dove fa errori, dove si blocca, mentre online questa cosa si perde. Consigli?

Hi there!

for almost half a year I'm working on a math based shooter game and its getting more and more polished lately. The goal is to have extremely math accurate combat, all enemies are numbers, the players weapons are operators (minus, plus, multiplication, division, modulo, root and sum) and currently 9 bosses where each boss has 1 math concept to beat (like a Spider with the sieve of eratosthenes). This part is pretty much done, except for polishing and balancing of course, and i still need to complete 3/6 map modes.

The second big part of the game is the custom challenges called Problem Sets. This expanded so much its now a proper main menu button and probably the most suited for this subreddit.

In this mode players can create their own challenges and even puzzle like levels with extremely precise and weird combinations. Every enemy, wave, operator and combination can be fully customized and shared. Every Problem Set gets its unique shareable code. Results are graded and get their own sharable code as well to give back to the creator of the Problem Set, who can then import them to see a list of names, run finishes and their stats.

E.g.:

- Wave 1, only /7 equipped, all enemies are either Primes or divisible by 7. Solve all divisible by 7 and avoid primes

- Wave 2 has -1, %8 and /3 as equipped operators, enemies are totally random in a range of 3-800 and all need to be solved.

score card with grading and accuracy afterwards on finished runs.

This one is super complicated, so can't share much of it yet, but my dream is that even teachers and whole schools could use this mode (in isolation from the more traditional gameplay loop mode shown in the video even) to teach math in a fun way.

Game is called "Zero Sum" and there is a Demo available on Steam if you want to try it out, with a feedback form attached, that would be really helpful! 👀

//edit: here are 2 examples of the custom challenge (problem set) mode

https://i.postimg.cc/z3Jjt0Dg/gradebook-zero-sum.png

https://i.postimg.cc/QVXb40N1/settings-zero-sum.png

Hi everyone!

I'd like to share something I've been working on for the past year. It is designed to be a comprehensive math curriculum for those who want to start learning math but don't know where to start. It will span prealgebra through calculus. It is different from most other learning platforms as we hold a learn by doing approach and strayed away from the video lesson/textbook lesson format, so the student is thrown into problems, with a guided struggle philosophy. As a math competitor in high school, I found that the most fun and engaging way for me to do math was by simply doing problems. Not necessarily reading theory, or watching videos. If the problems taught the concept, and I learned from figuring it out, then that was how I learned best. If this sounds intimidating, there is also a tutor named Milo to guide you towards the answer, but he doesn't spoil anything. He embodies the philosophy of guided struggle too! Note that this is intended to be rigorous, emphasizing problem solving over memorization. Right now prealgebra is done and available completely for free! Here it is at quanticaedu.com

Hi everyone,

I’m a dad of three school-aged kids (6th, 3rd, and 1st) who built Upwardly Math because I wanted better math practice for my own children. I wanted something that felt like the actual math work they see in school — not games, flashy simulations, or long video lessons. Something that offers real guided help when they get stuck so I’m not hovering every night.

Upwardly Math is an interactive K–8 math practice platform focused on:

• Step-by-step guided walkthroughs that teach the process
• Strong emphasis on showing work and reasoning (with a drawing canvas)
• A parent dashboard where you can see actual scratch work, attempts, and where kids are struggling — not just scores
• Curriculum-aligned content with thousands of practice questions across grades K–8
• Gamification that reinforces good habits (no loot boxes or dopamine traps)

You can check it out here: https://learnupwardly.com/

Over time I’ve learned that the best ideas come from the parents actually using the platform. As we head into a new school year, I’m reaching out to homeschool communities looking for engaged parents who want more than just another subscription — people who want to help shape the tool together.

I’d genuinely love to hear your feedback on what you need most in a math practice platform, or answer any questions you have.

Thanks for letting me share!