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More than the sessions themselves (which I’ll blog about soon), I was looking forward to attending NCTM 2012 to get a chance to meet some math tweeps, especially Christopher Danielson, aka ‘The Reflections in the Why Readership’. After arriving in Philadephia, I was excited to see that Chris Lusto had also made the trip.
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“In real life, @ChrisHunter36 does not look like a Tim Burton line drawing. FYI
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It was great to spend time and learn with my fellow Christophers as well as Dan Meyer, Karim Ani, Michael Pershan, and Bree Murray. These people are as tall, handsome, smart, witty, and friendly in person as they are online.
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“Tip of the day: if you have coffee with @Mathalicious and @ddmeyer, be extremely tall.
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On Friday evening, I had the pleasure of talking with Chris Lusto’s parents at a tweetup jokingly sponsored by Mathalicious.
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“Don’t forget: math teacher tweetup at #nctm12. Today @ 6PM. The Farmer’s Cabinet. http://t.co/4dklt8Sk RT and @mathalicious buys you a shot.
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Chris was telling his dad, a teacher who is about to retire at the end of this school year, a story about Christopher’s daughter.
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“Me to 5yo daughter re: sugar she put on her waffle: “This is like a calculus problem’s worth of sugar! Way too much!”
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After hearing his son talk about the families of people he knew online, Mr. Lusto commented to me on how amazing it was that we had this friendship despite never having met face to face. He said it was unbelievable to someone of his generation. A year ago, I wouldn’t have believed it either.
Reflections in the Why
Thoughts on Transformations in Math Education
FYI – more people than Christopher read your blog.
I agree, it is amazing to meet people in person that you have spent much time discussing and reading their thoughts.
Thanks David for reminding me that my readership is >1. Just being a bit self-deprecating with that remark. I appreciate your comments too. I know that many people, myself included, have favourite blogs that they read on a regular basis but never leave comments on.
Hey, Chris, I’m a regular on here too! I haven’t read any NCTM12 tweets and/or blogs from all the great smart female teachers whom I follow. Did you guys meet up with any?
Yes! We met up with Bree (@btwnthenumbers). Also, Grace (@graceachen) was there but I missed her.
Glad to hear you’re a regular! I’m a big fan of your blog. Loved the You are a girl. Female. post. Hopefully, all of our students have moments of kindness like this that they will remember years from now.
I got to have breakfast with Grace. Sadly, I didn’t see Chris’ tweet asking to meet up and eat with us until after we’d left. Next year.
AHH, I thought Breedeen Murray was male! (Hangs head in shame, sorry Bree, I visit your site often too, just didn’t connect your name with site name!)
I’d cried my eyes out the whole time writing that post that you’d think I was writing a eulogy, and cried some more when I read it again. #timetoseekprofhelp
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your kind words!
It was so fun meeting everybody and putting faces to names. And my folks were so happy to be part of the conversation. My mom sent a really nice email, which I will forward to you directly.