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Discover algebra through a coastal adventure on Vancouver Island. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0HM5FL7BD Chitakin aala nachual suwa! We are happy to see you! The Ants’ Treasure on Vancouver Island: Where the Paths Meet invites children and families in Nuu-chah-nulth communities to explore mathematics through story, pictures, and discovery. On a Pacific shoreline of pebbles, driftwood, and ocean waves, Mia and Alex follow two mysterious ant paths. With Mr. Numberwise as their guide, they discover how equations describe paths—and how their meeting point can reveal a treasure. Wooden staircases make slope visible. A treasure map introduces coordinates. Red and blue paths help children understand graphs and intersections. Young learners explore: • linear equations • slope and starting values • coordinates and graphing • intersections of straight lines The book combines colorful illustrations, step-by-step explanations, solved exercises, and practice worksheets. Its visual approach helps children connect mathematical symbols with ideas they can see. Designed mainly for ages 10–14, it can be enjoyed at home, in classrooms, or with an adult supporting a younger learner. An English-language mathematics adventure in a contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth setting. Follow the paths. Find their meeting point. Discover the mathematics behind the treasure. Chuu wey! Goodbye! #NuuChahNulth #NuuChahNulthLanguage #VancouverIsland #WestCoast #PacificCoast #BritishColumbia #Canada #CoastalLife #Ocean #Crabs #Octopus #Ants #TreasureHunt #Adventure #Kids #HappyKids #LearningThroughStories #VisualLearning #VisualAlgebra #MathMadeClear #Happy #HappyEdu #HappyKids #HappyMath #OceanFauna #MarineLife #VancouverFauna #PacificKids #MrNumberwise 20261007_0026_00(00)0 20261009_0834_70(17)1 20261012_0030_447(128)4

Tanshi! Hello! Discover algebra through a treasure adventure at Batoche. https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H4SGZ6PL The Ants’ Treasure at Batoche: Where the Paths Meet invites children and families in Métis communities to explore mathematics through story, pictures, and discovery. Paywiichaywin! Come with me! Join Mia and Alex near the South Saskatchewan River, where two mysterious ant paths lead to a mathematical surprise. With Mr. Numberwise as their guide, they discover how equations describe paths—and how their meeting point can reveal a treasure. Aen pchi shmayn—a small path—becomes the starting point for a big discovery. This English-language adventure brings visual mathematics into a contemporary Métis setting, with family connections, fiddle music, and details inspired by Métis beadwork and woven sashes. Staircases make slope visible. A treasure map introduces coordinates. Red and blue paths help children understand graphs and intersections. Young learners explore: • linear equations • slope and starting values • coordinates and graphing • intersections of straight lines Memorable visual explanations turn an equation into the recipe for a path, coordinates into the address of a point, and an intersection into the place where two path-stories meet. The book combines colorful illustrations, step-by-step explanations, solved exercises, and practice worksheets. Designed mainly for ages 10–14, it can be enjoyed at home, in classrooms, or with an adult supporting a younger learner. Shipwayhtaytaak! Let’s go! Follow the paths. Find their meeting point. Discover the mathematics behind the treasure. Miina kawaapamitin! See you again! #Michif #MichifLanguage #Métis #MétisCulture #Batoche #SouthSaskatchewanRiver #Saskatchewan #Canada #CanadianKids #IndigenousEducation #FiddleMusic #Beadwork #MétisSash #Ants #TreasureHunt #Adventure #Kids #Happy #HappyEdu #HappyKids #HappyMath #LearningThroughStories #VisualLearning #VisualAlgebra #MathMadeClear #MrNumberwise 20261007_0050 20261007_2343 #0271 20261009_0827 197(122)2 20261009_1835_214(216)2 20261012_0032_674(341)6

We are happy to see you! Discover algebra through a coastal adventure on Vancouver Island. The Ants’ Treasure on Vancouver Island: Where the Paths Meet invites children and families in Nuu-chah-nulth communities to explore mathematics through story, pictures, and discovery. On a Pacific shoreline of pebbles, driftwood, and ocean waves, Mia and Alex follow two mysterious ant paths. With Mr. Numberwise as their guide, they discover how equations describe paths—and how their meeting point can reveal a treasure. Wooden staircases make slope visible. A treasure map introduces coordinates. Red and blue paths help children understand graphs and intersections. Young learners explore: • linear equations • slope and starting values • coordinates and graphing • intersections of straight lines The book combines colorful illustrations, step-by-step explanations, solved exercises, and practice worksheets. Its visual approach helps children connect mathematical symbols with ideas they can see. Designed mainly for ages 10–14, it can be enjoyed at home, in classrooms, or with an adult supporting a younger learner. An English-language mathematics adventure in a contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth setting. Follow the paths. Find their meeting point. Discover the mathematics behind the treasure. Goodbye! (translated)

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics von der Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence / https://agmai.org/ https://agmai.org/general-sep29/

Division Made Clear: Why We can't Divide by Zero and Other Essential Concepts (Grades 3-8) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GNY6VLK5 A child wants to share candies at school… but there is no one to share with. So he decides to eat them all. Then he worries about a stomachache. And that’s how a playful mathematical adventure begins. From candies to pizza slices, from tiny “ant steps” around a 360° circle to clock hands pointing at 8 o’clock, this story gently introduces children to the beauty of division. What happens when 2 pizzas are shared by 3 children? Why do crumbs appear when we use approximations? Can 720 tiny steps be divided equally? Through imaginative storytelling, children explore: Division by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 Remainders as “crumbs” Classes of remainders Multiples and patterns Fractions like halves, thirds, and two-thirds Real-life questions such as: Which years between 2020 and 2030 are divisible by 5? Using numbers from 0 to 21, familiar objects like candy boxes and pizzas, and friendly explanations, complex mathematical ideas become playful discoveries. Division is no longer just calculation — it becomes sharing, thinking, predicting, and exploring patterns. Perfect for curious children, parents, and teachers who want to turn mathematics into a story worth savoring. Includes a glossary of 14 key mathematical terms. #BasicDivisibilityForStudents #KidsMathAdventure #FunMathWorkbook #LearnMathWithStories #LearnMath #Stories #DivisionExercisesGrade_3_8 #MathStoriesForKids #StorytellerUK2026 #PizzaMargherita #PizzaPepperoni #PizzaQuattroFormaggi #PizzaCapricciosa #PizzaMarinara #PizzaDiavola #PizzaHawaiian #PizzaVegetariana #Kids #0251 20261006: 918(444)8 #Happy #HappyEdu #HappyKids #HappyMath

After 25 years of being told that theoretical physics isn’t mathematics because we prioritize understanding over proofs, I find the math-AI debate rather heartwarming. Suddenly, many mathematicians are explaining that mathematics is about understanding, not just proofs. Welcome! #TheoreticalPhysics #MathAI #UnderstandingMathematics #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

mathematicians figure out new stuff they didn’t know was even a problem, something that may not work anymore if AI solves all KNOWN math problems. The point is: failure to solve KNOWN mathematical problems, may lead to the discovery of UNKNOWN mathematical problems. #Mathematics #AI #ProblemSolving #Therearenospecificcountrycodesmentionedinthetweet.Therefore #theresultisempty.

OpenAI anunță că a găsit o soluție pentru problema Navier-Stokes, una dintre cele mai dificile probleme nerezolvate ale matematicii, cu ajutorul a 10.000 de agenți AI care au lucrat simultan timp de 88 de ore, deși rezultatul nu a fost încă validat de Clay Mathematics Institute. #OpenAI #NavierStokes #InteligentaArtificiala

6. AI ability to produce math at a super-human level in certain areas is now quite clear. Who claims math need to remain the same as yesterday really requires stronger arguments than the ones in the Tao thread I read. #AI #Mathematics #Innovation #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

▶️OpenAI ogłosiło, że ich model rozwiązał problem Naviera-Stokesa, jeden z siedmiu Problemów Milenijnych Clay Mathematics Institute. Za poprawne rozwiązanie przewidziana jest nagroda 1 mln dolarów. ▶️Firma Altmana twierdzi, że model trenowała od końca sierpnia. Impulsem do #OpenAI #NavierStokes #MillenniumProblems #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Today, the OECD published the PISA global study that evaluates 15-year-old students’ abilities in reading, mathematics, and science to solve real-world problems. For us, this year's results send a clear signal: too many young Europeans are falling behind in essential skills. We https://t.co/68yZtDLSbl #PISA2023 #Education #SkillsGap #EU

Why Weak Societies Choose Tyranny The pinnacle of tyranny would be a system that allows politicians, elites, and bureaucrats to control a population without force or coercion because the people love their servitude. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, an eerily relatable dystopian novel, with this idea at the forefront. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, there is no overt oppression. The state does not have to stamp on human faces with its jackboots or erect an inescapable surveillance state. Rather, the people of Brave New World happily chain themselves with meaningless pleasure and distractions. The authorities do not rule through terror and rage, the central elements of 1984, but instead give the people everything they ever wanted. A pharmaceutical called Soma becomes the opiate of the masses. Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, likens it to Christianity without tears. While religion requires years of moral training, Soma allows citizens to achieve peace simply by swallowing tablets. It is the perfect escape from reality, a holiday from the facts. Lenina, the female counterpart to the protagonist Bernard, cannot comprehend why he refuses Soma, preferring discomfort to something that can remove it. When Bernard states, “I’d rather be myself, myself and nasty, not somebody else, however jolly,” Lenina sees this as a sort of pathology and repeatedly encourages him to take the wonder drug. Bernard explains, “I want to know what passion is.” He understands that there is more to life than merely being content, craving genuine experience, including suffering and intensity, rather than being emotionally regulated by the World State. Lenina’s bewilderment stems from her conditioning to regard unhappiness as a technical problem, encapsulated in the society’s common saying that “a gram is better than a damn.” The people of Brave New World are not captives but satisfied customers. Children are produced by the scientific state, relieving people of the responsibility of parenthood. This grants them the ability to engage in promiscuity, where everyone belongs to everyone else, while filling their free time with cheap entertainment and endless sporting events—what would be referred to as slop today. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell saw totalitarianism through the lens of fear, while Huxley saw it through pleasure. There was no need to ban a book in Brave New Worldbecause there was no one who wanted to read one. An abundance of low-quality information rendered censorship unnecessary because no one could hear the truth through all the noise. Huxley threw shade at civil libertarians who passionately opposed tyranny because they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. Humanity in its rawest form is portrayed by John the Savage, an outsider free from the World State’s conditioning. Upon coming face-to-face with this spiritually neutered society, he completely rejects it: “I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.” Huxley’s dystopia is not imposed on an unwilling population but instead requested by a hollow one. Which leads us to the question: How do people become so weak that they get on their knees and beg for totalitarianism? Good times make bad times possible. Once a certain level of luxury and safety is achieved, people start to resemble the hobbits from the Shire. They are so far removed from evil that they forget it even exists and become defenseless in the face of it. Andrew Lobaczewski, who studied the psychology of totalitarianism from inside Poland’s communist takeover, wrote: “During good times, people progressively lose sight of the need for profound reflection. They lose the capacity to differentiate human nature, and emotion begins to dominate intellect. Once a critical mass starts operating on the pleasure principle, any excess mental effort seems like pointless labor.” Lobaczewski warned that it is not as simple as some people losing the ability to think rationally. It is worse, because those people then shame anyone capable of doing so. A clever, liberal, and merry individual is a good sport. A more far-sighted person predicting dire results becomes a wet blanket, a killjoy. The ability to have uncomfortable conversations without emotion taking over is, in Lobaczewski’s view, an indicator of whether a society’s future will be good or bad. It is easier to think about pleasant things. This leads people to eliminate any data or facts that cause them discomfort. That becomes a habit and eventually a custom accepted by society at large. Once the general populace accepts that inconvenient truths should be left unsaid, it becomes incapable of reaching correct conclusions. After all, how could you ever describe a picture that you refuse to look at? “Catastrophe waits in the wings of the communities that lose the capacity for psychological reason and moral criticism,” Lobaczewski wrote. “It is on the other side of this weakening of thought that the processes of the generation of evil are intensified at every social scale until they give rise to bad times.” It is precisely man’s dreams of happiness that can lead to chaos and suffering. This hedonistic view of happiness contains the seeds of misery, feeding the eternal cycle whereby good times give birth to bad times. Friedrich Nietzsche viewed socialism as demanding comfort for the greatest number of people possible. To question whether it is good for the masses to live in comfort has become a form of heresy. This reveals the spiritual atrophy that so many suffer from. Considering only the weak believe comfort to be a virtue, it is what Carl Jung would describe as the infantile dream state of mass dependency: the desire to gently slip back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care. Except this lack of friction has consequences. The perfect state destroys the soil in which great intellect grows. Genius, struggle, passion, strength, and wisdom are required to build a safe and abundant society. Yet once a certain level of comfort is achieved, it can destroy the very virtues required to obtain it. Nietzsche observed that it is the warmest heart that aims to alleviate suffering and hardship but fails to realize that it thereby wills the destruction of its own foundation. Comfort breeds mediocrity, which is then called good. Small people want one thing above all: that no one hurt them. We have taken this pathology to such a degree that we now obsess over hurt feelings and call this virtue. Pleasure, in its proper place, is a byproduct of meaningful goals, not a goal in itself. Aristotle saw that pleasure and comfort distort perception and proper judgment. While they do not cause us to misjudge something like geometry or mathematics, they can destroy our ability to decide what is worth pursuing and, therefore, what to do. Consider The Odyssey. Homer depicts Odysseus’ men on the island of the Lotus-Eaters, where they taste the fruit and lose all desire to go home. Much like Huxley’s Brave New World, they are not imprisoned. Rather, they simply stop wanting anything more. Odysseus has to drag his men back to the ships while they weep to stay. This is what comfort can do to men. It empties them of purpose. We intuitively understand this but fail to apply it to our own lives. We must make the same choice as Odysseus when he refuses Calypso’s offer of endless comfort and immortality. He knows she is more beautiful than his wife Penelope waiting at home. He knows that he and Penelope will grow old and die, a fate he could avoid by staying with Calypso. No one who reads these stories wishes he had stayed. We want him to choose the hard way home because if he took the offer, he would stop being admirable. Yet staying is exactly what our modern society asks of us. We are told that the island is the good life. But what happens to the man who caves to this temptation? In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche imagines a risk-averse society taken to its logical endpoint. The elimination of all struggle produces a man so diminished that he fails to possess even self-contempt or higher aspiration. Safety and sameness become the highest goals, creating “no shepherd in one herd.” Anyone who seeks to be anything more than normal becomes an aberration to be dealt with. Or, as Nietzsche puts it, they have “made the wolf a dog in man himself, man’s best domestic animal.”

Physicists may have made a huge mistake when they introduced dark energy. That is what a team of mathematicians say after looking at the equations. Because they find that, actually, it’s unnecessary. If they are right, that would be the ultimate embarrassment for physicists. https://t.co/ZyhAaFDHa3 #DarkEnergy #Physics #Mathematics #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsintheprovidedtweet.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

What if the graph of a linear function started with ants crossing a beach? 🐜🏖️ Instead of telling children, “Vacation is over. Pay attention — today we start with formulas and graphs,” imagine following the paths of a few ants across the sand. One ant walks steadily in one direction. Another starts farther away. Their trails become lines. Their starting points and directions begin to matter. And suddenly, y=ax+b is no longer just a formula on the board — it describes a journey. Maybe mathematics works better when curiosity comes before notation. #math #LinearFunction #MathForKids #MathEducation #Graphs #Learning #Curiosity #BackToSchool #ChildPsychology #LearningMotivation #EverydayMath #DiscoveryLearning #20260820 #MrNumberwise #20260821 #0013 #MrNumberwise #English

If doctors would try to establish laws to exclude AI from curing disease, society would resist, because doctors are funded to cure disease. We don't want to have more disease for the benefit of doctors. I believe the same applies to mathematics https://t.co/uShyy5ELhq #AI #Medicine #Healthcare #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Spain's educational divide isn't just economic — A modern polygenic score for educational attainment predicts regional mathematics performance across three independent cohorts, from primary school to PISA 2022 By @davidepiffer https://t.co/y0r6vmO6i8 #Education #Spain #PISA2022 #ES #IT