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Hi all!
-your name: Melynee
-your role: 6-8 math teacher for SWD
-where you live- Claremore, OK
-one thing you have been working on to get better at: Everything! Always working on making SMPs focus of ALL lessons
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A0: Leslie, Waterloo Ontario, Gr. 1 Teacher, (hard to choose just one) trying more "I notice ____. I wonder ____." prompts with my students to hear their thinking and reasoning more clearly. #elemmathchat
Hi! My name is Chantelle. I am a senior, majoring in Elementary Education. I live in New Hampshire and have been working on math confidence. :)
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Natalie Moon. Kind of watching from afar tonight. Math Coach in Missouri. I’ve really been working hard to be intentional in my lessons with 2nd graders. Been teaching addition/subtraction and listening to student thinking and strategies. No standard alg yet. #elemmathchat
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Hi!
Marissa-student teacher in Santa Ana
Working on division of fractions
Enjoying relearning math!!!
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Hi! Michelle, 3rd grade math teacher completing elementary math specialist endorsement, from Cincinnati. Trying to conquer a new grade level this year #ElemMathChat
A1: Practice can vary depending on the needs of the students. Students are exposed to different types of problems that are aligned to their learning goals. #elemmathchat
A1: Playing with a concept (concretely and visually), seeing how far a conjecture goes ("does this work with 3 digit numbers?"), talking about an idea, writing about an idea #elemmathchat
A1. I hope teachers are using @Flipgrid and #numertalks to make sure students voice is involved in the learning. #flipgridfever is a great site to support practice. #FLASPD Q1 - What does it look like to "practice" something in mathematics?
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Hi - I'm Heather from Boston - HS Math Teacher and Department Chair. I have been working on work/life balance. In class, I've been working on stating the purpose for each homework assignment. #elemmathchat
A1: My kids practiced today by talking to one another about their strategies and then trying to find the errors in each other’s thinking. It worked well. #elemmathchat
A1:When I think of practice in my room, I think of #numbertalks and games. I love that students get to try some new ideas and ways of thinking out during #numbertalks. Games are such a great way to continue playing with numbers
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A1 Practice in my classroom looks like chaos sometimes in my classroom! Small group work, individual work, whole group discussions, use of tools, questions being asked by Ss and me. Practice looks like a work place where we all have same goal of learning! #ElemMathChat
A1:
“Practice without intentionality and you will perform without much intentionality. The time you make to practice training activities in advance always results in a
better practice.” -Doug Lemov, Practice Perfect
Being intentional about practice matters.
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If you noticed the chart in the image to this question... I think "practice" as much as possible needs to be about "Making Connection".... #elemmathchat
A1: (part 2) I see a distinction between practice as wandering around in the dark (playfully seeing what is out there) and practice as following a lead - investigating a specific idea #elemmathchat
A1. As we get closer to standardized testing time in the states, we have to keep in mind that:
“Massed practice of a skill is by far the preferred study strategies of learners of all stripes, but it is also among the least productive.”
Peter Brown-Make It Stick
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A1 pt 2 If you think of a practice field you see ALOT going on. Groups here working like they need to improve, groups there doing their thing, some individuals, some 1:1 coaching, routines, focused muscle training - pretty much organized chaos like my class! #ElemMathChat
Q2: Realistically- I want them to practice a growth mindset and patience. I want them to understand that not everything comes right away, and that's okay.
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Q1-Practice in math makes me think of worksheets but I loved a lesson I did today w @SteveWyborney’s Esti-mysteries! The students were practicing a variety of math skills and loving every minute of ‘skipping math class’ for today! #elemmathchat
A2: Today is a perfect example of what we need to practice: decomposing numbers to problem solve. So... we got out the manipulatives and saw how many ways we could rename a number and looked for patterns
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A2 I want my Ss to practise:
Problem Solving
Reasoning and Proving
Reflecting
Selecting Tools and Computational Strategies
Connecting
Representing
Communicating
Visualizing
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A2: lots of things to practice from practicing respectful discourse to practicing a procedure. Typically, though, I think of practice for concepts that have been explored, drawn, discussed and not need a level of procedural fluency — which requires practice. #ElemMathChat
A2: I want my students to practice refining an explanation or argument. I often prompt, "tell me more" but love when they take over and prompt themselves or each other. I love "Rough Draft Thinking" and the language routine "Stronger and Clearer Each Time". #elemmathchat
Let's actually practice something here....
Q3a - Try one of the Zukie puzzles below. Try to find the shape indicated by using SOME of the dots as possible vertices.
You can find lots of samples here:
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A2: I want them to practice perseverance! It's easy to get defeated in a subject you struggle in. It takes strength to keep pushing foward. This is also a great opportunity to check in to see how your students feel, especially for our quiet students.
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A2. Students need practice:
1. sharing strategies
2. Talking about math with peers
3. Seeing a problem through
4. Making sense of numbers
5. Modeling in math
6. Justifying answers
7. Comprehending word problems #elemmathchat
A2 Math Action Processes (SMPs), Growth mindset, Great Expectations and Life Principals - All of these will lead to academic success as well as social and citizenship success! #ElemMathChat
I am definitely not a fan of adding a second 2nd grade.... Still, I could argue for hours about the power of a solid foundation of K, 1st, and 2nd grade math content. #mathchat#elemmathchathttps://t.co/N0vRzSCcV7
'@pearse_margie d like to respectfully push back on number 7. Do "real" mathematicians need to comprehend word problems?
Is our goal to build real mathematicians?
What is the deeper mathematical habit we want Ss to have?
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A2. Students need practice:
1. sharing strategies
2. Talking about math with peers
3. Seeing a problem through
4. Making sense of numbers
5. Modeling in math
6. Justifying answers
7. Comprehending word problems #elemmathchat
The more I teach, the shorter this list gets. In a given unit, what do I feel like they all MUST know - right now, we are doing some trig work and I want them to be able to sketch a graph of a sine curve. So - they are practicing that. #elemmathchat
A3b: its allowing students to apply their knowledge of the geometric shapes without supplying them with so much information that they don't need to think. #elemmathchat
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Students would need to be thinking about the properties of the shapes, the terms, continually making conjectures and testing out their thoughts..... While students are practicing a skill.... there is SO much thinking, they are also practicing their SMPs!
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A3a You know you opened a can of worms with me! Ask @MFAnnie and @maxrayriek about what happens when you get me to thinking about math! You lose me on the chat! LOL! #ElemMathChat
A3b students are practicing spatial reasoning, problem solving, perseverance, critiquing their own thinking, composing and possibly decomposing if they find a partially correct connection....... so many fun things! #ElemMathChat
A4b. I am hoping they are using their number sense and place value understanding to make a 14 rather than a 41 in order to get closer to 100. #elemmathchat
A4b. The first thing I would do is add what I already have.
Then make 14 so that I don't go over over 100.
Then think: if I did go over 100, would I actually be closer to 100 than if i stayed under 100?
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A4 once again I see all of our OK MAPs (ccss SMPs) flexibility, fluency, problem solving, critiquing each others reasoning, math mindset.......... number sense #ElemMathChat
A4a: I use a version of this game on the first day of class in HS (with pairs), summing to 1,000,000. For me, it's about how you interact and share ideas with others, when many people have viable ideas on strategy. #elemmathchat
Hello! Glad to see you on our #ElemMathChat I was in your neck of the woods just last week! Beautiful! Loved Seattle, but loved riding the ferries on the Sound even more! I was a NCTM Regionals, did we get to meet?
I don't think everyone sees "practice" the same way....
I'm interested in what "dynamic practice" can actually look like for our students: #elemmathchat
Memorization of math formulas do one no good if they aren't understood and the student doesn't know how to apply them in various situations. #elemmathchat#dynamicpractice#ece
Q6 - Sometimes we need to practice a skill.... but hopefully we can think of ways to practice it while still asking our students to be engaged in the types of "dynamic practice" we've been doing tonight.
Pick a skill, and share how it can be practiced:
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A6: we’ve been representing numbers using @CathyMarksKrpan’s Concept Circles and just yesterday, the Ss brought money into it. Practising counting money is now the new “it” thing for us! #elemmathchat
A6: I am a big fan of "find as many ways as you can" I recently did this with arrays for multiplication, but I could also see it with counting money.
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A6: we’ve been representing numbers using @CathyMarksKrpan’s Concept Circles and just yesterday, the Ss brought money into it. Practising counting money is now the new “it” thing for us! #ElemMathChat
A6: Factors and multiples. Create a "headbandz" style game where each student is wearing multiple and they must guess the multiple by another student telling them two possible factors. They can ask one student before moving on to another. Keep id'ed multiples. #elemmathchat
If we want our students to "Practice" something.... we need to be thinking more broadly about developing our students as young mathematicians.
Paying attention to all 5 strands of Mathematical Proficiency is key!
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A6: For multiplication practice, I'm testing out double-sided flashcards, where side A is a 5x5 array (how many, how do you know?) and side B is a 5x6 array (how many now, what is the relationship to side A?). #elemmathchat
