Melissa Dean

Nice on #mathart from Denise. Similar elementary activity from me: mathhombre.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...

An excellent question. I wonder this as well -- but there are many who don't!

Math teachers: What's your biggest question about outcomes based assessment?

Teachers, you are more than the culminating of the numbers in your gradebook. Your impact goes beyond the 'measureable'.

Here's my hot take: VNPS are great, but they aren't the end all and be all. We also want kids to be able to keep a record of their learning: the messy, the mistakes, the journey.

This is why I have my kids keep Mathematician's Notebooks as a place to record evidence of their learning journey.

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Is your classroom more transactional than transformational?

I'm looking to talk to some middle/highschool math teachers about the pains of assessment in the math classroom

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Assessment is more than data entry, it’s the curation of story.

Anyone here have a brilliant scale diagram/scale factor problem for grade 9?

We’ve lost sight of the art of assessment and grading in favour of the science.

Math teachers. What is your biggest barrier/wondering/question around outcomes based assessment and grading?

Are we data-entry clerks or assessors of learning?

I wish more people understood that ridiculing a teacher’s pedagogy is never going to move the needle.

Latest on the substack.

You can leave the red pen at home.

One of fav things about working with new teachers:

When I tell them they can do 90% of their assessing in real time.

Math teachers, here’s your weekly reminder: you don’t need to mark that.

Self assessment and reflection should be a part of every math class.

People, I miss my online math community.

Assessment is a process, not an event.

I tried to read this. I didn't get past the first page.

Grades are boring. Assessment is much more interesting.

Assessment is a process, not an event.

“And more importantly, I came to learn how the way maths was taught made my peers dislike maths, feel helpless and anxious.” #iTeachMath www.cambridgemaths.org/blogs/seven-...

It’s all in the game? I teach Grade 9 math. I’ve talked about this before on this little blog of mine, and I’m constantly working to try to help my math learners build resilience and grit and risk taking. Co…

I introduced my class to the Towers of Hanoi. What followed was the most productive math class we've had in ages:
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Dusting off the writing project.

Assessment isn’t something we do, it’s a way of being in the classroom.

Everyone deserves access to rich mathematics experiences.

Building up my writing again. Deanofmath.substack.com

I’m clearly now Howie. But— lots
and lots of visuals. Don’t rush to the algorithms. Have kids explore concrete representations and build
connections.

After rejections and passed overs piles up, I wonder why I keep trying.

People will say that students need to be prepared for the real world as if the real world doesn't include joy, curiosity, self-discovery, and grace. #EduSky