Tuesday, June 30, 2015

What it means to be a part of a learning community - Tribal Elder Edition

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One interesting moment from the Oregon Math Network Conference this past week: Bill McCallum was leading a large-ish session on building a...
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Impromptu Twitter master class on homework strategies

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On Friday afternoon Anna (@borschtwithanna) tweeted out this call for conversation: Hey #MTBoS , teach me how to go over hw. I give an...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015

The deeper wisdom of the body in math class

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This post is for Malke. As I was eavesdropping on a recent conversation between Lani Horn (@tchmathculture) and Malke Rosenfeld (@mathinyo...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

40 days and nights of standardized testing: a reflection

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And on the 289th day, God made brownie mix. He divided the mix into the batter & the topping. And God saw the brownie mix, that it was g...
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Resonance in our work as teachers — a love story

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I went to the neighborhood farmer’s market this morning. I wanted to seek out Q and find out where she is going to college next year. I pick...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

If it is in the way, it is the way: the only true path to a growth mindset

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I believe that helping our students to find their way a growth mindset is so important it must become one of the pillars of our math teachi...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Chords and Secants and Tangents, oh my!

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Once you get to circles, chords, tangents, secants, arcs, and angles in Geometry, it's all just a nightmare of things to memorize — whic...