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When I was an 8th-grade math teacher, I had a group of students that decided to create a get well card for me using rules of symmetry that we had just started to explore before I unexpectedly had to miss a few days from the class.  The excitement in the explanation and their work was so electric.

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Last week I had an echocardiogram and realised I could use it to introduce sinusoidal waves. It was an exciting moment because 2 of my students were upgrading their math to become sonographers.

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I've had a couple of different experiences where I would come up with "wild" ideas in class that were a bit off the beaten path but teachers were able to validate and encourage me to keep going... creating my own coordinate system, coming up with fractional derivatives, guess the Cantor-Schroeder-Bernstein theorem, etc.

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I've had a couple of different experiences where I would come up with "wild" ideas in class that were a bit off the beaten path but teachers were able to validate and encourage me to keep going... creating my own coordinate system, coming up with fractional derivatives, guess the Cantor-Schroeder-Bernstein theorem, etc.

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When I see my sons’ smiles when math makes sense to them..

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Karimah   One memorable math moment for me was coming up with an answer and my teacher said it was not done correctly. But I showed him my work and explained that it was mathematically sound. He capitulated.

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Karimah   One memorable math moment for me was coming up with an answer and my teacher said it was not done correctly. But I showed him my work and explained that it was mathematically sound. He capitulated.

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Growing up impoverished, learning about financing and budgets was a game changer.

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One of the first times I actually found myself enjoying math was when I started role playing and talking in character while doing my homework. It was significant for me because I found a way to make the subject fun for me.

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When an Algebra Project colleague pointed out to me that the solution to the applied problem I was thinking about was a linear diophantine equation

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Seeing my own kids want to learn from others. Doing their best and finding success. The little things that matter most.

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Listening to my Kindergarten aged nephew explain his approach to building a Lego kit. Sorting was the first thing he touched on. Every day math.

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As a teacher, my most memorable moments are seeing students aha moments, especially from the students who claim to not be "math people"

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"Looking backwards to move forward" : In our recently concluded Summer Math Academy, Robin Wilson told me this is the meaning of the Algebra Project logo ... but we also realized it is the key to understanding subtraction, and subtraction as the inverse of addition.

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As a young educator, teaching young students (from my original small Arkansas town and junior high school) Algebra! My principal stated that I "took people who did not know Algebra or want to know Algebra and taught them ALGEBRA! More than 25 years ago...amazing!

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The most memorable moment I've had with math as a subject was when I was able to solve one of the most difficult problems in my Statistics class.

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Helping my mother with her college mathematics course.

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Checking my work on a problem when I was taking Calculus 2.

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Mine also had to do with long division. For an adult upgrading student in my Pre-Calc 12, busting through this barrier to success was such an exciting moment that he called me at 2:30 in the morning to share his excitement. At that point he reoriented his goal from training to be an LPN to going into uni to become an RN. LIFE CHANGING MOMENT! It's why I went back to teaching math at 70.

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Group project to create a solar cooker.  We used parabolas on graphs and then created it to cook s'mores.

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Receiving a message from a hard-working student who was excited she passed her AP exam

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The first thing that came to mind was in my first year of college, I went from my physics class (where I had just struggled on a test) to my calculus class, where I got my test results and I had done really well. It made me feel like maybe I could do this thing (and mentally switch from being a physics major to math major)

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Taking a math modeling final on the blackboard instead of paper. The experience made me more comfortable sharing my mathematical ideas.

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As a student, finding math in other subject areas and making connections outside of the classroom

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1) When I was 5 or 6 my favorite show was called Square One TV (a PBS show about math) and I learned the Fibonacci sequence from an episode of "Math Net"- a segment within it, and that show is where I remember my love of math coming from.  2) A much more recent memory came from 3 weeks ago when I learned how to do some harder math concepts using physical Montessori math materials - it felt joyous, challenging, and the physical nature took understanding to a deep level & I want to figure out how to bring that to my students.

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Working on a number puzzle with math teaches at a conference.

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Coming out of hiding in 2nd grade and discovering that fractions were something I could multiply and divide.

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Coming out of hiding in 2nd grade and discovering that fractions were something I could multiply and divide.

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Engaging in African Diasporic Drumming with Algebra Project students and teachers to explore multiples and equivalent ratios

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Seeing Bob Moses present at NCTM Boston and learning about the Mobius function.

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One memorable moment as a teacher is when one of my students, who was quiet and struggling in the course, presented a beautiful solution to a problem. And in that moment the whole class saw some go from a passive observer to a doer. And we all celebrated! :)

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having Lucas (6th grader) challenge me and fully engage and persist
in Poison logic puzzle - eventually "figuring it out"

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Hello, my name is Sajad Pouraliabadi.  I am Iranian and I am a student of Rasoulian School.  I became interested in mathematics during the field trip.

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As a student in grade 9 in Algebra 1 the teacher called us the dumb dumb row after we struggled with her lesson objective. My friends and I became our own tutors and together we supported each other to prove her wrong. We ended up with excellent grades and being empowered to learn.

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The moments math-reluctant students were comfortable taking risks in my classroom.

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When my classmates and I did a song and dance to the Mickey Mouse tune for Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles are Congruent. CPCTC!

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When my classmates and I did a song and dance to the Mickey Mouse tune for Corresponding Parts of Congruent Triangles are Congruent. CPCTC!

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Having a math teacher who was so patient and understanding 

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Having a math teacher who was so patient and understanding 

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I was doing a sink and float experiment when learning to teach science. I realized that I could use MATH to predict which objects would sink or float! It was a real thing - not just some numbers that moved around on the page.

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Working with others in college math classes. I had lots of fun with my study groups.

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I enjoyed moving Around the World/ classroom in the Multiplication drill part of my school day in the third grade. 

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I enjoyed moving Around the World/ classroom in the Multiplication drill part of my school day in the third grade. 

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Balancing equations in Chemistry. It was when I first experienced the joy of cross-content connections and "applied" mathematics.

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Going to the candy store and having enough money to get all the penny candy my little hands could hold!! I was proud that I counted it up myself.

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When my high school teacher challenged me in math. That is when my love for math began to grow.

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Best recent math moment is learning from the AP and YPP students at the Summer Showcase a few weeks ago in FL! Go prime numbers, go factors, go observations!

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Competing in 24 math challenge in middle school, and doing well in it.

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Not being able to memorize my times tables by 3rd grade...this made me think that I'd never be good at math!

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Working in groups solving hard homework problems.

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Leading 9th grade students through the Algebra Project's Road Coloring module for the first time and seeing how much fun and learning took place!

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Once of my most rewarding experiences took place when my Algebra students used exponential functions to investigate the Flint Lead Crisis (Guiding question: What is the future of lead in the children of Flint?)

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Once of my most rewarding experiences took place when my Algebra students used exponential functions to investigate the Flint Lead Crisis (Guiding question: What is the future of lead in the children of Flint?)

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Realizing that making my Halloween costumes was math; Also taking calculus in college and FINALLY seeing why it was fun because it was contextualized in real purpose/use!

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College statistics was the first time math felt grounded in the real world for me

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Collaboration and shared problem solving

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The moment I finally figured out a problem that I was stuck on, or a moment the student did the same. Doing long division with polynomials

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Re-learning Long Division with 7th grade students