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Hi! Margie from PA
Math Coach
Fav math activity was having my Ss collect soda tabs for Ronald McDonald House, figure out the rate of exchange & how many nights we kept a family there.
Then visit RMH with tabs and dinner and crafts for the little ones
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I'm going to be turning my attention #elemmathchat for the next hour, so let's resume tomorrow. I have to think about what you're asking. Offhand I don't think I would have gotten to int by parts without knowing ∫x dx but this is a lame answer.
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Hi! Margie from PA
Math Coach
Fav math activity was having my Ss collect soda tabs for Ronald McDonald House, figure out the rate of exchange & how many nights we kept a family there.
Then visit RMH with tabs and dinner and crafts for the little ones
Life changer
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Tessa, Instructional Coach in Shoreline, WA. I'm a big fan of 3 act tasks but lately have been loving the which one doesn't belong routine! #elemmathchat
John Golden, Michigan, teacher prep. Favorite elem math activity is a tough choice between a good math game (like Close to 100) and good math art (like Hundred Face) #elemmathchat
Hello math friends! K-12 Math Coordinator/Instructional Coach in MO. Fave math activities is anything that allows kids to talk math and discuss their ideas together #elemmathchat
On fav activities, love getting into random sidetracked math conversation with kids. Today gr 1/2s turned to each other and engaged in unplanned debate about how many sides a circle has. Live for the moments like this. #elemmathchat
I love using seasonal shapes, bc you know that makes it completely different than dots :) I am also really starting to get into going from a subitizing session into dot talks #elemmathchat
Hello. Parent and amateur enthusiast here trying to share my passion for math with my children. I enjoy teaching them Euclid or doing KhanAcademy with them.
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So, I love so many things math, but it it is just for me I love the discovery. I love the connections, I love seeing it in the world. I love understanding the complex with the simple #ElemMathChat
Q2 Math is full of interesting ideas that can be explored in multiple ways, both on and off the page. Example: Building polyhedra in 3D space adds new information to 2D representations. #ElemMathChat
A2 I do Estimation 180, https://t.co/dSYwNZS9U5, Winner's Circle Wed, Quick Draw and Desmos Total Today, plus just the way I teach is off the page :) #ElemMathChat
Yea, it's awesome. I blogged about using it with an after-school program, and will start using it with some Ss next week. https://t.co/ACcePsMdyL#ElemMathChat
A2: Human number lines with fractions, decimals, integers, adding & subtracting with integers, etc... Kids love to get up and move and can really visualize what is going on. Also tried a human coordinate grid with equations in middle school #elemmathchat
A2 I love having my Kinders create patterns with themselves. They can get so much more complex than just boy-girl (AB) patterns. They have a blast, too #elemmathchat
Q3 Changing the scale of an activity to make it big enough to accommodate students’ whole bodies is a great first step taking math out of the symbolic realm. #ElemMathChat
A2 When I taught 1st, I loved having kids act out the problems were were solving. Funniest was missing addend problems where they "sneakily" gave their friends more stuff. #ElemmathChat
Boy, wanting to try to do #ElemMathChat and #SwDMathChat simultaneously, while watching mixed doubles curling! #SwDMathChat Q1 I'm now math specialist for a children's chorus, will be directing small group work with volunteer coaches.
If your floor has square tiles already on it, use electrical tape to outline the ten frame using the squares. It comes up without the sticky residue! #elemmathchat
A2: This week were adding context so that Ss can build their own understanding around unit fractions, adding fractions, moving from fraction greater than one and mixed numbers. #elemmathchat
A2: Using already learned math vocabulary, have the students sit back to back & recreate a geometric structure verbally. A great noisy lesson. #elemmathchat
a3 we literally tried that today in MS with a version of philosophical chairs, Ss stood or sat on the floor down the center of the classroom #elemmathchat
I have not ventured into the blogging world yet. Still fairly new to the twitter world. I have shared the ideas at math conferences though. #elemmathchat
A3 I was thinking about different ways of communication (off page) but I actually really love asking kids to journal about their body scale math experiences. How will I know what the students are learning? #elemmathchat
A3 Ss process differently sometimes larger scale that is able to be manipulated makes the processing and understanding accessible. It is UDL for a few that helps all! #ElemMathChat
A3 We need to let go of the control. Body scale activities create a giant space for student agency. Don't over manage it. Get out of the way. #elemmathchat
A2: This week we're adding context so that Ss can build their own understanding around unit fractions, adding fractions, moving from fraction greater than one and mixed numbers. #elemmathchat
Yup, and we will be doing https://t.co/JaDCMjjL4B in their first sessions! Mostly one-on-one, some two-on-one (students to coach). My goal is shifting coach role to "why" instead of "what". #SwDMathChat#ElemMathChat
Q2. Figuring out the ratios, percentages and decimals of the colours in a piece of student created artwork in the style of Paul Mondrian. #ElemMathChat
A3: Students are experiencing the math. They physically connect each edge with a vertex with their own 2 hands in these images. They discover that there is always 2 or more edges that connect at each vertex. So neat!
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Well, since I don't have a job any more, I'm able to pick up some new adventures. But doing three things simultaneously right now isn't going that well. I need a pause button on all three! #SwDMathChat#ElemMathChat
Asking questions like "what is the same and what is different" and then discussing, critiquing, and questioning some more. hmmm.... good thought! #elemmathchat
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A3. Class is more dynamic. The script is gone, so preparing and getting comfortable with questions that elicit student thinking and conversations are very helpful for keeping it centered on focus of the lesson
Annie, you will always have a job in fulfilling your mission to transform the way math is viewed, taught, and experienced. You are on a different pathway now. That being said, what does pause button in life look like? #elemmathchat
A4In my MS classroom we turn the floor into a whiteboard oh so often. We use the tiles as empty # lines, area models, fraction tiles, ect, the sky is the limit! Dry erase marker comes right off! #ElemMathChat
A4 I have always wanted to make scaled up Cuisinaire rods. When we made our giant Fibonacci spirals, the students could feel the magnitude of the spiral growing. #elemmathchat
A4: Ss might gain perspective on how the area within the shape is impacted as they increase the perimeter of the shape. ?? This question has me pondering yet. #elemmathchat
I was too nervous to try the dry-erase markers, but after some trial and error I found the best tape to use on the floors was electrical tape. It works on white boards too without damaging it. #elemmathchat
Let's take some time for Q5 @Mrs_Torrance’s 1st graders were moving and thinking while they proved they had found the center of the ladder structure taped on the floor. Watch this short video: https://t.co/R4AI8wOa4W#ElemMathChat
If your floor has square tiles already on it, use electrical tape to outline the ten frame using the squares. It comes up without the sticky residue! #elemmathchat
A4 Scaled up work allows students to use their "personal referent" measurements to work with math concepts and models (number line, ten frames, geometric shapes). Makes abstract ideas like magnitude more concrete. #elemmathchat
A4 We had a student accidentally throw a rubber sticky panda that stuck to a ceiling tile, so we immediately had to find out how many pandas it would take to cover the ceiling, how many pandas to fill the classroom, and how much all of them would cost. #elemmathchat
Q5: I notice more and less efficient ways of counting the square! I notice someone taking charge with a seemingly sound strategy. I wonder if the two people executing her strategy had same understanding and pulled it off to find middle. #ElemMathChat
A5: I notice there are SO many possibilities with the structure in this video. Ideas churning.... the integration of math and PE comes to mind. I wonder how many coaches at my elementary buildings would work with me to support math in their classes
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A4 had preservice elementary teachers out trying to walk shapes with a whole class. The problem was how to do it, and made for some great thinking. #elemmathchat
The custodians don't like tape on the carpet very much, but I think we could figure something out for an outline. I just love the idea of being able to write on the floor! #elemmathchat
Can every math teacher ever please read this? Not only is this a wonderful approach to solving inequalities, it also points to a more fundamental pedagogical philosophy in @IllustrateMath: REASONING > RULES
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A5 I notice Ss are being leaders in their learning and exploration. I notice creativity and Ss using different ideas to interpret same data. I wonder how that one backbend kid is still able to breath! LOL! #ElemMathChat
A5 #elemmathchat It looks like they started from just one side, using different ways to get to the other side, then they started to think about starting from both ends. Quite a leap of an idea!
A5 Notice-I think the walkability made the movement more natural than counting because of the intuition. Wonder- how would students who had done this then think about it on the page? #elemmathchat
I've used painters tape and duct tape on carpeting before. I had no fear of ruining it though either, as it was very old and gross carpet in the hallway and the custodian gave me the OK. Play around with types of tape and you might still be able to make it happen. #elemmathchat
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@tessakaplan84, @maxrayriek, @PaulaKrieg, @MNmMath
Q6 In addition to whole-body math, other off-the-page approaches I love are math games and math art. What are your favorite classroom math games? #ElemMathChat
Definitely. They came up with the idea of follow the leader, but when the leader stops it's a vertex. Lots of discussion then about if sides were straight, angles, etc. What did we make? The scale was huge, shapes with sides 50 feet or more. #elemmathchat
Noticed that too! I really liked that everyone had a chance to think it or move it through their own way before the last suggestion. That was really cool collaboration happening! #elemmathchat
I tried masking tape first and it was a wreck (kids had fun at the end of the year trying to get it off the floor). Painters tape was painless, highly recommend. #elemmathchat
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@tessakaplan84, @Scoothie_Math, @maxrayriek, @PaulaKrieg, @MNmMath
A6 #mathgame too many to count https://t.co/BjeoptaO0w#elemmathchat Product game, Decimal Pickle, Burger Time, Change for the Better.... and commercially Blokus, Tiny Polka Dot, Prime Climb, Mastermind...
Q7 One of my very favorite #mathart projects is #hundredface--impermanent faces “drawn” by using Cuisenaire rods (lengths of 1-10) adding up to a target number. #ElemMathChat
A6 Students have a genuine need to communicate about mathematics and to solve problems together. Everybody knows where to start and no one is "stuck". #elemmathchat
My own kids love broken calculator challenges. My son invented a version of math hangman. Instead of a word, we make equations. You have to guess the numbers. It is pretty cool. #elemmathchat
A6 sorry for plugging, but I love the #mathart a lot too. https://t.co/hlewMFHIHn Tessellations OF COURSE but so much else. #elemmathchat@HHminnebo been doing some great story problem paintings & those infinity tiles!
A6 I now have 5 Blokus games in the classroom that the 6th graders love. We also love Coordinate Grid Battleship and inventing games using decks of playing cards. #elemmathchat
A7: So many benefits!! Allows Ss to ENJOY math, brings out creative thinking, encourages exploration, learning without fear can happen for many struggling students... gosh the list can go on and on. #elemmathchat
Creativity in mathematics. It feels like a game, a puzzle. It has creative elements and has restrictions and rules. This kind of math has nothing to do with math being useful and everything with math being awesome. #elemmathchat
A6 A6 I don't exactly get to play math games with kids, but one of my favorite things is to start with a double square (domino shape) and show the different shapes to make with them, and how to use these to decorate. #elemmathchat
A7: My students are making "contemporary" homes with cuisenaire rods. Each pair got the same # of rods (21). They had figure out how many whole rods they had used if 1 whole = 1 yellow. They were blown away to see the range of the data. #elemmathchat
There is this beautiful dance between the math constraints and the creative constraints. I remember when I did #hundredface w/3rd graders, we had a wonderful conversation about how to eliminate pieces w/out eliminating the "rooster-ness" #elemmathchat
In Australia we have this stuff called "cloth tape" that you can get at hardware stores. It's kind of like duct tape but softer and not as sticky. I used it to make my floor graph. #ElemMathChat
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@MissMath_Teach, @TAnnalet, @tessakaplan84, @Scoothie_Math, @maxrayriek, @PaulaKrieg, @MNmMath
One thing I love about Blokus is you can play with the game pieces all by themselves, even with really young kids who can't play the game yet. #ElemMathChat
A7 I use large poster boards with different numbers. They roll a cube for the sum and then they toss two beanbags on the addends to make that sum. You can switch it up and use it for fractions that match with decimals...lots of options with this one! #elemmathchat
Look #ElemMathChat friends! I pulled my amazing kid into our chat! She is a future cognitive neuro scientist who knows the power of growth mindset and #NoticeWonder ! Happy Day!
A8 I am so excited to be hosting a math club session for 4th and 5th graders in two weeks. I am bringing compasses, colored pencils, lots of different sized paper. We are going to explore circles (and polygons) and make beautiful designs. #elemmathchat
A7: I'm happy to share my five day fraction lesson. It addresses 4th gr. fraction standards and it is definitely off the page. #elemmathchathttps://t.co/yNaOcx2Olb
A9 my standard is jot down (either to a specific question or what's your take away or what do you want to think more about), share with your group, then ask each group for one thing they heard. #elemmathchat
Q9 The reflection questions I ask to answer in writing/drawing usually depend on the grade level. K kids might "describe what you did" while older Ss might be asked to come up with a definition, or to document some aspects of their learning. #elemmathchat
I did a math night once called “Mathterpiece Theater” each classroom did a different math art piece based on a book. My fave was Elmer Area and Perimeter! #elemmathchat
Creating a fraction museum really helped my class to recall what they already knew about fractions and for me to elicit their current knowledge before we look at Yr4 objectives. @WhiteRoseMaths@nrichmaths#makemathsfun
Q9 If body was a "manipulative" that students used to solve a problem, them they might need to explain in their reflection what they did and how this helped them to find the solution. #elemmathchat
I love asking people to share something their heard in their group or pair that THEY personally didn't think of, or that was different from their "way". So emphasis on listening to others' ideas. #ElemMathChat
So the Blokus pieces are all those little polyominoes made of squares in four colours. Kids can play around with them, put them together in different ways and make patterns. They can do this from a young age without playing the game competetively. #ElemMathChat
Q10 Choose one activity, lesson, or idea from tonight’s chat you’re curious about and/or you’d like to explore further. What’s the biggest factor (ha!) in your choice? #ElemMathChat
A10: I really liked @pearse_margie's introduction to spheres. Trying to connect that with what I teach though. Perhaps estimating how many cubic inches of air is in each bubble? #elemmathchat
A10 Painters tape to make a life-size 10frame & more.... Looking for ways to get kids moving - up out of their seats!
and #hundredface but need to get more cuisenaire rods!
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A10: I want to explore the 100 face activity and adapt it for a variety of concepts and skills. I think the Ts will enjoy the outside of the box approach and I think the Ss will love the opportunity to be creative. #elemmathchat
