Jenna Laib
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Reunion thread! 🎉 (I was Jenn Orlin back then.)
Hillary was kind and hard working. And, yes, a white girl from Boston. (I think they lived on the other side of the river.)
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I’m in a Gr 4 classroom, 15 min left in the school day. The T suggests we play a super quick game. I was going to suggest Number Boxes, but it would take a few min to explain the rules.
The teacher had a better suggestion: “take out a whiteboard and a marker. Drawing contest!”
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My wonderful principal included this in her letters to families today. So grateful.
“Please understand that transforming an educational environment from school to online is not as simple as holding the Zoom/Google Hangout/Skype chats we all have become experts in this week. /1
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I love the “what do you know about _____” routine. So many big ideas about place value came out of our conversation — and so many Ss were able to share in the discourse!
#learnwithIM
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Today, a fifth grader told me that he thinks that there might be an odd amount of numbers in the universe. "There's infinite positive numbers, and infinite negative numbers, and they cancel each other out. But then there's zero!"
#MTBoS
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FINALLY a fresh context for working with linear equations!
“…earns $13 an hour for the time she commits to hunting pythons throughout the year, then an additional $50 for the first 4 feet of any python she catches, and $25 for each foot beyond that.”
#MTBoS
#iteachmath
The Florida Python Challenge invites snake-hunting novices to compete alongside professionals for cash prizes to hunt for invasive Burmese pythons.
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Just launched a website for Slow Reveal Graphs (aka Numberless Graphs), featuring the work of
@bstockus
@heidifessenden
@kassiaowedekind
@mathgeek76
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#slowrevealgraph
#statchat
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A brief love letter:
I cannot imagine how I would do this remote teaching thing without
@Desmos
. It is my lifeline.
Using Desmos AB means that I get to focus on student work and student thinking during our synchronous sessions. Full stop.
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NEW BLOG POST
"For Our Math Education Community"
I want to share how I launched my sessions at NCSM and NCTM last week: with a message about community.
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I was skeptical. A drawing contest? So many ways this could end badly.
“You’re going to draw a snowman!” The T announced. Kids started making nice, fat circles.
“Oops, I forgot one thing…”
@fawnpnguyen
@NatBanting
“You need to draw with the whiteboard balanced on your head.”
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Gr 6 student overheard classmates talking about how they would find the area of this parallelogram by making a rectangle. They were talking about enclosing and subtracting away, but she did this! (“I cut off the triangles and slid them over.”)
#learnwithIM
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The outstanding instruction our teachers offer within the classroom cannot be replaced. Teaching is an art and science that takes years of training, mentoring and developing in order to master instructional practice.”
🥰 /3
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In kinder, we used pattern block shapes to compose new, larger shapes. Ss seemed really interested in using corners as anchors. (we’ve been talking more about the relationship between corners and sides and shape names, etc) Love seeing what they attend to.
#ElemMathChat
#mtbos
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I walked into this gr3 class where students are sorting shapes. They haven’t learned any classifications yet, just seeing how they sort.
@Trianglemancsd
This group is called “stop signs”! +
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NEW BLOG POST:
No More Mathematical Matchmaking: The Return of the Inaba Place Value Puzzles
Thinking about differentiation, student agency, and who gets choice.
#elemmathchat
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
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The class played a quick second round: draw a snowflake. Honestly, the results may have been even more hilarious than the snowman. What angles did you TRY to draw? Is it easier to draw right angles purposefully?
Solid game, and lots of laughter!
Two more days to break. 🥴
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Added a few
#slowrevealgraphs
!
- Breadwinners in the US, over the last 50 years
- Pet adoption
- Bullying at school
- Teen reading habits
- swears in Taylor Swift lyrics (
@Jhovde2121
)
...and maybe a few others that you missed!
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With apologies to everyone for the flurry of retweets: I am so overwhelmed with the love I've received from my MTBoS fam this week. The online math ed community has helped me learn and grow as an educator and a person. I am so happy to be in community with all of you!
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I know lots of Ts like to relate math content to money so that students will “understand it better” — but many in our youngest generation don’t have much experience with cash. Case in point: at the playspace today, my 3yo attempted to swipe play dollar bills.
#elemmathchat
#MTBoS
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Well... that’s a very specific speed limit!
Was 10mph really too slow, but 15 deemed unreasonably fast?
#mtbos
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My 8yo daughter just drew a squiggly line on a piece of paper.
“Mama, what do you notice? Do you see why high points? Or low points?”
I talked about the shape of the graph, and pointed out a big drop. She circled it.
#tmwyk
#slowrevealgraph
🧵1/10
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A bunch of my students changed their zoom backgrounds to "THANK YOU! 🌺" messages for teacher appreciation week, and a few other shared google docs and slides with kind words. So simple, and also... 😭
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NEW BLOG POST: "Using Instructional Routines to Inspire Deep Thinking"
A vignette from a Grade 5 classroom at my school!
Originally published on the Illustrative Mathematics blog
#LearnWithIM
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
#ElemMathChat
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My 4yo is playing “math class” in the living room while I read a book.
“Look, mama! I made a biiiiiig hexagon! It has so much math! Like a butterfly’s wing!” (We had talked about symmetry when we studied butterflies)
@Trianglemancsd
#tmwyk
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I just walked into the classroom of a new fifth grade teacher, and I am already thrilled to be here. Check out this interactive ‘bulletin board’ she has up next to the door!
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Okay, so I’m a bit of a Pi Day grinch (sorry 🙈) but I do love this
#slowrevealgraph
about how many digits of pi humans have known over time. Technology is WILD. 🤯
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NEW BLOG POST:
“Is zero a number?”: Interviews with a Whole Class of Kindergartners
#elemmathchat
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
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I’m watching a class discussion in a 6th Gr class. The classroom teacher just called on a student who is new to English. He rarely speaks in class.
He quickly opened his chromebook, and typed a response into google translate. He brought the Chromebook for the T to read aloud. !
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This book arrived yesterday: “Curious Comparisons,” by Jorge Doneiger. It is GORGEOUS and fascinating! Already plotting some ways to share it with students...
@Simon_Gregg
@kassiaowedekind
@TracyZager
@heidifessenden
@MathMinds
@janaki_aleena
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NEW BLOG POST
Last spring,
@EdWeekTeacher
journalist Sarah Sparks observed me teaching some 'slow reveal graphs' lessons at my school. I’m honored to share that the work was then featured in a package of math education articles published a few weeks ago.
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As I walked down the 1st/2nd grade hallway with a new bin of counting collections, I heard “ooohs” echo in my wake. “Counting collections!” “I love those!” “I remember doing that!” 😍 Music to my ears, little friends.
#countingcollections
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Today, I came across a class of 6th graders without a teacher. (There had been some slight miscommunication about subs and schedules.)
I called the office, and then decided to vamp with a
#slowrevealgraph
. What can I say: it's my mathematical party trick.
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[Our district] has long maintained that the essential part of the school experience is the interaction and response that happens inside a classroom between and among classmates and educators. /2
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NEW BLOG POST:
Reducing Bias & Desmos
Looking at how the
@desmos
Dashboard helped me examine issues of bias within my sixth grade classroom.
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
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Students in grade 5 are debating whether this student did, in fact, show 0.40 on the grid.
“It’s four strips of 10.”
“I see four 8s and a 4. 8x4=32, and 32 + 4 = 36.”
“Whaaat? What happened?”
“Oh, it’s the overlap!”
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NEW BLOG POST:
Presuming Competence: Using Clinical Interviews to Support Classroom Instruction
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
#elemmathchat
#presumecompetence
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Today is my "one in a billion" day.
This morning, while making scrambled eggs for breakfast, I cracked open an egg with a double yolk.
And then another egg with a double yolk.
And then another egg with a double yolk!
Triple double yolks!
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We are piloting a new curriculum in grades 4 & 5 at my school. One of the teachers just thanked me for "midwifing" the team through the process. She made my day!
Math doula is absolutely going on my résumé.
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Ramadan Mubarak! 🌙
We decided to start the month by gifting our kids a new book: "One Sun and Countless Stars: A Muslim Numbers Book," by
@henakhanbooks
& Mehrdokht Amini.
Math, Islamic traditions, gorgeous illustrations... such a beautiful book! Excited for this month. 🥰
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Quick! Find a card that shows (4, 10, 9, etc)! Is it easier to find it in the ten frames or the dinosaur spots? Why? Thinking of
@MathforLove
and
@cluzniak
‘s work as I play with a group of kindergartners.
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For those of you that are still teaching -- I have 1.5 weeks left! -- I updated
- new graphs (% identify as LGBTQ+ by generation, Taiji Cove dolphin hunt)
- New links to videos, articles, and now even a book (!) to learn about the routine (
@theresawills
)
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Decided I should give proper attribution! This is c/o my brilliant principal, Dr. Suzie Talukdar, and the rest of the K-8 principals in the Public Schools of Brookline. Very grateful for their leadership right now.
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My first grader listened to a
@NatBanting
webinar with me while we folded laundry. When she heard him talk about a design challenge he gave his own daughter, S announced she’d “be right back!” Ran downstairs. Returned with this. 😂 Kids love a challenge.
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Also: had some interesting conversations this week about extending student thinking. It had me thinking about this third grader, who enjoys playing with ideas and sharing his creativity. Like how 5/8 is equivalent to 3 1/3 / 5 1/3.
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Updates to !
New graphs: food deserts, police brutality in Canada, the size of MLB players, the music industry, and the highest paid athletes in the world.
Links to recent blog posts by
@kassiaowedekind
&
@acotgreave
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
#slowrevealgraph
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My 3 year old’s favorite thing to do after baking: make egg arrangements. “Mama, there’s 11!” Then she rearranged and recounts. “Mama! 11!” The very start of number conservation. She also seems interested in symmetry; she got a little frustrated with this carton of 11.
#tmwyk
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NEW BLOG POST
The Story of Fibonacci, and the Math Ethnic Studies Framework
After seeing tweets about the Seattle Math Ethnic Studies work, I make an attempt to bring the framework to life in gr 3. Mixed results
#MtBOS
#ITeachMath
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NEW BLOG POST:
Building Mental Representations
A clinical interview with a third grader about her addition and subtraction strategy. How do we understand the thinking that is in someone else's head?
#mtbos
#ITeachMath
#elemmathchat
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My 6yo just stole a second freshly baked biscuit from the baking sheet.
ME: Hey! Why did you take another biscuit?
6yo: I noticed you made enough for everyone to get exactly two. So I'm taking my second one now! Thank yoooooooooooou.
#SneakyMath
#tmwyk
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Choral count by 2/5s. We anticipated that students would see that we ended each line with a whole number (blue pattern), but that ended up being the last pattern shared. Ss were so interested in figuring out how much to add too different diagonals.
#elemmathchat
#MTBoS
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I added new graphs to
Including:
- Racial diversity amongst the authors of new children's books
- Queer representation in new books
I have a backlog of graphs to add, so maybe this will be the Week of Slow Reveal Graphs! A
#slowrevealgraph
a day...
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Some hilarious attempts. But also I heard kids asking things like, “how did you do that?” And the artists would explain some strategy. “I started drawing one circle from the top and the next from the bottom to connect them.”
The kids were focused. They were thinking spatially.
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Chaperoning a field trip to
@mfaboston
today. Great tour of Am Rev paintings & artifacts. My favorite part: this empty frame, for us to imagine portraits of all the people whose stories aren’t told here. Eg Phyllis Wheatley, Crispus Attucks + many others unnamed in history books
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6yo, apropos of nothing: “Mama, you know why I like even numbers? My hands each get the same number. Like I can give some to my left hand and some to my right hand it’s all fair. So easy. That’s why you should like them, too.”
#tmwyk
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I am looking at student work from an assessment. When asked to write a story problem that matches 3/4 ÷ 1/8,
S wrote:
You need 3/4 cups of flour but you only have a 1/8 cup. How many times do you need to fill it up?
Huh! I hadn't thought about multiplicative comparison...
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We used this
#WODB
in two different grade 4 classes today. I was fascinated that our current unit of study (multiplication, focused on factors, multiples, and idea of prime/composite) really came through in student responses. 🧵 1/2
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@nhoskee
A fourth grader tried to convince me that triangles have interior angles that sum to infinity because of all the straight angles. I may have overtaught straight angles.
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NEW BLOG POST
That Time I Couldn't Hear
For 2 months, I had dramatic hearing loss. I had never been so acutely aware of how I organize my life & work around my ability to hear.
Sharing some strategies and more questions
@LaraMathcalf
&
@mathematize4all
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NEW BLOG POST
Crime and Punishment: A Tale of Changing Beliefs
"This is a story of how I changed a belief, first by learning from people who experience the world differently than I do, then through math/data. Both can be humanizing."
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You know you're a math teacher... when you spend a solid 10 min at the dinner table doing
#noticewonder
with the take out container.
#mtbos
#ITeachMath
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NEW BLOG POST:
One of My Favorite Games: Number Boxes
I've used this game successfully in Grade 1 & Grade 8! It's the ultimate chameleon. High leverage: easy to prep, accessible to many, lots of fun.
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
#ElemMathChat
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Just got called into a breakout room for a
@desmos
mascot update from my student. Here are Dessie, the DesPig, and Bessie, the DesMOOOOs Cow. (These kids love Desmos!)
We are wrapping up a unit on expressions, equations, and exponents, so I love that Dessie & Bessie are into it.
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I love teaching -- so much! -- but also why did I choose a profession where people take sick days in order to get work done? 😫
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Visiting
@benorlin
in MN! Here we are, experimenting with scaling our shadows. How can we make a shadow that is 8 units tall and 2 units wide? How about 8 tall and 4 wide? When do we need to change our body’s shape?
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I've been fortunate to facilitate PD about Slow Reveal Graphs in several states this summer! Thanks to teachers from Massachusetts to Minnesota for sharing their great ideas about facilitation, access points, and telling the story of the data.
I added some new graphs, too! 🧵
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K students were recording how many tiles were in jar. There were 11. A student drew two rows, one with 5 and one with 6.
I asked her, “how do you know your drawing shows 11?”
She rotated her paper 90 deg counter-clockwise. “Look! Can’t you see the 1 and the 1? It’s 11!” 😂
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Also we had a nice bonding moment looking at photos of desserts. He told me that his grandmother's pastiera is the best -- obviously. We only detoured for a minute, but it was a minute of human connection.
Also I wouldn't turn down some tiramisu right now. 4/4
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I LOVE that I can use private chat to communicate directly with students on zoom! It’s truly private, in a way that crouching down to whisper to a student, in full view and potential earshot of others, is not.
Today, I had a particularly beautiful private zoom moment. /1
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Number theory is one of my favorite things to teach — and
@ESMathTeacher
takes it to another level. Read about her work (and wisdom) in her latest blog post:
#mtbos
#iteachmath
#EduColor
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I should be asleep, but this (and other messages) have made me smile. 🥰
Unequivocally,
@jennalaib
is among the greatest math educators ever and she deserves all of the good things for all she has gifted our math educator community. This is, and will continue to be, a Laib stan account.
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6yo: That’s 9 cookies!
Me: How did you figure that out?
6yo: It looks just like the 9 Number Block!
@numberblocks
#tmwyk
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Just ran into some former students -- now in HS -- back for a visit. These boys look at least 1 ft taller than I remember.
"Hey, Ms. Laib, do you still do those 'Which One Doesn't Belongs?' Those were my favorite." Honestly, high praise from a 15yo!
@Trianglemancsd
@MaryBourassa
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My 7th grade group crushed their assessment today, so, with our few minutes to spare, we started to build Olivia Rodrigo's "Driver's License" out of fraction tiles on
@MathigonOrg
. They were pretty pleased with how it came out. 😂
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I just returned from a week at the
#NCTMLA22
conference. One of my 8th graders greeted me with, “you abandoned me!”
“I’m so sorry!”
“How was your competition? Did you win?”
“Absolutely.” 😎
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Today is the last day of school! 🎉
It makes me happy that all of the screens in the hallways are showing off the 8th grade Desmos art projects.
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To my Canadian friends! 🇨🇦
New graphs on
- How prevalent is food insecurity in Canada, by race?
- What should be the official food of Canada?
#slowrevealgraph
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Today, we used this routine again to launch another IM K-5 Math lesson in gr 5. I am fascinated by how the conversation played out in different classrooms! You can see how S ideas build. They listen to one another
@csarahj
@MathMinds
@MyMathscape
#learnwithIM
#elemmathchat
#mtbos
I love the “what do you know about _____” routine. So many big ideas about place value came out of our conversation — and so many Ss were able to share in the discourse!
#learnwithIM
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What holidays result in the greatest number of travelers across the world?
How much candy do Americans buy -- and what causes that amount to change?
Just uploaded new
#slowrevealgraphs
to !
#mtbos
#ITeachmath
#statchat
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Today in Gr 1:
#mathematizingchildrensliterature
with “Baby Goes to Market,” by Atinuke & A Brooksbank.
Kids were falling over themselves with mathematical ideas on the first reading! (notice/wonder) Tomorrow, we revisit it with a math specific lens.
@allisonhintz124
@smithant
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Two new
#slowrevealgraph
additions!
- size of the world's population, with predictions through 2060 (geared towards HS, but works in 4-8)
- nepo babies! what fields to fathers pass on the most advantage to their sons? (with an introduction to log scale)
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NEW BLOG POST
Daysha at the Board: Assigning Competence
Examining my interactions with a first grade student during a lesson -- and her experience in math class
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
#elemmathchat
#assigncompetence
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It's been a while since we've done a twitter
#slowrevealgraph
!
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
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NEW BLOG POST
"The Love Graph"
My 8yo daughter created a slow reveal graph in real time -- about recent experiences with love and sadness.
#tmwyk
LINK:
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This morning, I’m in a workshop on social justice & math with Prof Shannon Dillard. We started by estimating how to place 25 chips by population around a world map, and then adjusted based on actual figures.
Then we distributed Hershey kisses based on wealth. Love this visual.
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@flickeringICE
@JeffyJerusalem
@lenibriscoe
Hillary! 💕 Were you a sophomore transfer? I would have thought you would have freshman when Hillary HT and I were seniors.
This whole thing is weird. Legit, she was very friendly and nice.
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A
#SlowRevealGraph
a day...
Day 3:
Number of Colors per National Flag, Across the World
(graph from DynaMath)
How many colors does a country's flag typically have?
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Apparently my 6yo played “Roll and Record” at school recently: roll two dice, then write the number on the chart.
@Inv3_Math
Writing “7” is so mid. My son decided to play “Roll and Illustrate an Elaborate Battle Scene.”
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NEW BLOG POST:
One of My Favorite Games: The Answer Is...
My version of mathematical scattergories! Students earn 1 point for each expression no one else wrote. But there's twist...
#MTBoS
#ITeachMath
#ElemMathChat
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@bobsonwong
@cluzniak
In grades 7 & 8 at my school, we let Ss bring a small index card worth of notes to a test. I think that the creation of this index card can be an act of studying itself, and it also forces them to consolidate their thinking/determine what is most essential for them to have.
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NEW BLOG POST
"Fraction Intervention: Sonata for Eighth Notes in E Flat Major"
Music is so math-y! (And vice-versa!) 7th graders and I used our knowledge of fraction operations to translate sheet music to fraction bars on polypad.
@MathigonOrg
@Amplify
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New
#SlowRevealGraph
The Arctic ice cover typically covers its greatest area during the month of March. How has this changed over time? And how might this data inspire us to act?
#dataliteracy
#slowrevealgraphs
#ITeachMath
#MTBoS
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We were generating things we know about polygons in grade 3. One kid just told me “I think fractals should be called infinigons!”😍😍😍
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