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Minds on Mathematics - Storify

This is a record of the live-tweeting at @wendywardhoffer's #mindsonmath presentation at Kent ISD on Oct 2, 2014. In attendance and actively tweeting: @delta_dc, @ProfJonh, @RAnderson_Math.

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Geogebra Tube Links for Mth221

Which quadrilateral am I? (Paul Yu)https://www.geogebratube.org/student/m51987Measured kitemaker (Paul Yu)https://www.geogebratube.org/student/m19458Triangle Inequality (Todd...

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Quadrilateral Hierarchies - Productive Struggle

An overarching goal for the semester is to help my pre-service teachers grow more comfortable with "productive struggle" and with persevering on challenging tasks. We worked at it for a long time...

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Pocket strategies: Purposeful Incredulity

Think back to your school years. Think of that one teacher who managed to make every lesson fun and engaging, the one who had a canny way of making even the driest of topics seem worthwhile and...

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The Equity Principle

Here's a clip from NCTM's webpage on the Equity Principle:So Equity does NOT mean that every student is treated the same.That can be tough for new educators, especially here in America where all men...

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TT-TNG (F14 edition)

Teaching Tips (from) The Next GenerationPresenting the inaugural edition of... Teaching Tips (from) the Next Generation: a summary of semester-end blog posts written by graduating secondary math...

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Spurious correlations, three ways

I stumbled across a collection of spurious correlations a while back.Here is one of them that struck me, in part because the data set links sour cream consumption per capita and motorcycle riders...

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PSTs: "What I will do to make sure my elem students have a good math...

I try to give my students plenty of opportunity to reflect on their growth as we approach the end of the semester. With that goal in mind, I had my students tell me what they remembered about their...

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SBG Indicators - Your Experience May Vary

Uh-huh...Learning targets are hard to write.Here's one (of 27) that I used in F'13: D.3 I can calculate, work flexibly with, and demonstrate understanding of statistical measures of center and spread...

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I was working with some middle school teachers-to-be who are noticing some of the aspects of algebra we tend to take for granted after years of practice and application, and they are noticing how...

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AMTE 2015: Supporting Growth Through Cognitive Coaching

This page hosts the materials for the presentation by Profs Coffey, Gerson, and Hasenbank on the use of Cognitive Coaching(SM) for preservice teacher field supervision (presented at AMTE 2015).Coaching...

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AMTE 2015: Using Standards Based Grading with PSTs

This page hosts the materials for the presentation by Jon Hasenbank and Pamela Wells on the use of standards based grading in math courses for future teachers (presented at AMTE 2015).SBG...

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MIA2015 - Facilitating Growth through SBG

How can the use of standards based grading support a growth mindset in students?Presented at GVSU's Math In Action Conference Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015 by Dr. Pamela Wells and Dr. Jon Hasenbank(Session...

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Inspiration Post

For all those who need this today.https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2b/de/d3/2bded3e02dfc2f5d55ab162b296baf43.jpg

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Giving Effective Feedback

I had a nice discussion with my assessment committee colleagues today. Afterwards, at the request of one of my colleagues, I shared a few resources about effective feedback. I decided to kill two birds...

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Transformations vs. Order of Operations

The following question was raised by one of the work groups in class today: Why is the order of performing transformations different than the order of operations?We are studying function...

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TMWYK What if you

Me: Hey, why did you choose 7-2=5 for this stretch your thinking question? Is it because you just did that one on #5?No! It's because 7 is my favorite number. And then the other one had to be 2 to make...

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Best Teaching Practices, by GVSU's Math Student Teachers

Over the years, our math student teachers have shared their best ideas and most memorable experiences from the mathematics classroom. We prompt them by asking what they have seen or done that will...

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MIA2016 - Coaching Principles in the Mathematics Classroom

Molly Carter, Jamie Stuart, and I presented the following session at the 2016 Math in Action conference. Our talk was called "Promoting Collaboration During Problem Solving: Coaching Principles in...

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MIA2017 - Do you have a growth mindset?

We share how the math teachers in our hall empowered kids by focusing on growth mindset. (Based in part on Boaler's book Mathematical Mindsets)Our presentation was part of GVSU's2017 Math in Action...

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Advice for Getting Started with SBG

One of our teacher ed grads emailed one of my colleagues in search of SBG resources for a pre-algebra course he's developing for next year. He wrote: When I had you for ____, you graded our assessments...

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QTP: Rich tasks are for everyone

Overheard: The modified "rich version" of the task would have been too difficult for some students, so we gave them the original worksheet and one teacher took those students aside to work on it...

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Reflections on Conferring

Conferring is purposeful helping aimed at developing students' capacity for learning (as opposed to merely providing information). I think of it like this: Helping :: "Give a fish"Conferring :: "Teach...

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Program Assessment For Learning - Slides

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Math in Action 2018: Project Based Learning

Bringing Project Based Learning (PBL) into your Mathematics ClassroomConnor Bilkos, Kim Bringelson, and Madelyn Johnson,and Jon Hasenbank Grand Valley State UniversitySession C4, 11:00 A.M. - 12:00...

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