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Appreciate faciliting with UCSD Math Project on their Summer Institute. Teachers get together for a week of learning, and then implement. They’re learning with students in the Summer!  We are exploring gear ratio today as we continue to explore proportional reasoning.

Math department chairs and administrators came together to observe productive struggle facilitated through questioning in the classroom.

Middle school math and elementary teachers compared and discussed pedagogy, assessments, and key ideas by grade level! What a productive collaboration!

Great day with a math workshop class and painted cubes activity! Ss noticed the inside unpainted cubes were related to the size of the original.

“Suppose that your doctor's idea of a successful medical practice is to teach his patients how to pass every diagnostic test that he gives to them. How will you ever know if you are healthy?” #iTeachMath

Students at whiteboards working on problems

Whiteboard with a series of problems

Whiteboard with a series of problems

Screen with mild medium, and spicy problems to choose from for check your understanding

Had the pleasure of observing 7th grade classrooms today doing thin slicing! Two step equations with decimals. The task was actually out of the BTC green book for elementary but very relevant to their current unit. #iteachmath #btcthinks

Love that our teachers get together to learn on a Saturday!

Department chairs, and administrators observing a math classroom where students are working on whiteboards

Students writing situations based on exponential equations

We had valuable conversations between secondary math department chairs and administrators as we observed authentic productive struggle in math classrooms! #iteachmath #BTCthinks

Chart paper in the center of the table. Groups of four students with skittles and a table, indicating how many skittles are faced down.

Got to see exponential decay in action with m&m and skittle face with letters face down totals after numerous tosses! Then compile the data in Desmos to make a model!

Teachers and administrators working in groups of three on vertical whiteboards

Teacher leaders and administrators diving into the CA framework and planning for effective professional learning structures. #BTCthinks

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Thank you, it really was. Having both admin and teachers in the room was so valuable for a shared understanding.

How could U.S. society support teachers, students, staff, and schools better? I'm Tracy Zager, a math coach and author of professional books who lives and works in Portland, Maine. I'm in the brainstorming stages of work on a new project on behalf of educators and all staff inv...

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Teachers and administrators in groups of three talking around posters

Teachers and administrators, talking in pairs

Slide showing selections of the chapter 9 California framework

Math department chairs and admins analyzed data, read CA Framework selections, and collaborated to discuss middle school math pathways. #iteachmath

I love how @saravanderwerf.bsky.social does this before exploring visual patterns with one of the cases, then encourages Ss to count the same way for the other cases before generalizing.

I love the thinking that comes out of Venn diagrams!

I save old expo marker tops for when one goes missing. I have 13 right now.

Students outside, looking at a measuring tape to measure field of view

Student holding a pipe looking through it

Equation based on the data. Y= (6÷40)x +2

Y= 0.125X +2

Enjoyed co-teaching a lesson on modeling distance changing field of view! Had student gather around for the scenario BTC style and it worked SO well! Interpreted, slope, and y intercept in context! #BTCthinks #iteachmath

Mathematical modelling irl

#iteachmath

Hi everyone:) Virtual Summit is here this weekend with Make Math Moments. It’s going to be fantastic: free PD all weekend long! My session is Sunday if you’d like to join us to explore some big beautiful problems. Register here summit.makemathmoments.com?sc=lWRaWpLS

Not too many yet, but growing!

Who uses or knows about the five-step curricular process from the Algebra Project?! I was today year's old when I learned about it, and I'm embarrassed that I didn't know.
♾️ Some aspects of this align with 3-act math, and additional aspects are just bad ass cool.

algebra.org/2022/07/11/f...

Three students at whiteboards discussing math

Two students thinking about their answer at the whiteboard

Example of a students scaling down to 1 cm and also up to 200 miles.

♾️ using collaborative, whiteboards while exploring @desmos.bsky.social lesson on scaling state part 2. Accidentally used the warm-up scale of 1 cm to 40 to compare instead of the actual activity, 1 cm to 50 to compare, but the students still did great! #iteachmath #BTCthinks

We are currently working on this in our district. I will add some of the resources when I am at my computer. We looked at our current calculus students and who was placed in different courses in 6th grade. There was a large discrepancy based on race. This is what started our conversation.

♾️ LOTS of wonderful math ed folks presenting this upcoming weekend at the FREE Make Math Moments Summit. Register here: summit.makemathmoments.com My session is
Designing Equitable Mathematics from the Margins: UDL Math - Dr. Rachel Lambert Sat 11/17 8:30-9:30 PT/ 11:30-12:30ET

Division by partial quotients vs the shortened version where quotients are not explicitly written

I've learned that this "new way" of doing long division has been called "new" since at least... 1706.

Research at @librarycongress 😃
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Thank you!

Hopeful for a new online community! #Edusky

Had a wonderful time with math educators at the California Math Council Conference in Palm Springs. Sharing a full lesson experience from launch to consolidation with the Building Thinking Classroom framework.#BTCthinks