Draw the polynomial on your back by asking questions! One of my all time favorite vocab activities 🤠 #mtbos

Brilliant! (As usual…) a simple shift in perspective and language can make a HUGE impact!

New TikTok video: Multiplying with rectangles

Harvard's opinion of high school calculus. college.harvard.edu/admissions/app…

This video from BuzzFeed is a great context for combining healthy eating w/ combining like terms & solving equations bit.ly/2fmE9DT #MTBoS #iteachmath

Weeding out teacher materials & books that don’t align with best practices for teaching literacy is like throwing out love letters from an old boyfriend. Some good things were there, but we aren’t meant for each other & I’m moving on. Can anyone else relate?

I love that Sarah had always shared so freely and the factoring puzzle (#2) and the shared factors activity (#7) are especially awesome! Thank you!

Do you remember the 3 big ideas of a PLC? If not, here’s a refresher! These ideas capture the essence of the PLC at Work process. #atplc Learn more: bit.ly/3NzaqTk

I love this! Honors the fact that learning is a process and involves struggle - and may not fit the timetable of one class period.

Lots of great resources in here for problem solving prompts 😁

If y’all haven’t been talking about #fentanyl, you should. My district has had 4 children die in the last month and we are facing this crisis head on. I don’t know this family, but their story is important because it could happen anywhere. hayscisd.net/fentanyl1E

I just learned vlookup and it’s like having a new toy!!!

More dividing fractions VISUALLY and CONCEPTUALLY. This time using rectangles.

Super relevant for 6th grade right now, HaysCISD 😁

New TikTok video: What's another way to think about inequality signs besides alligators?

WHAT?! 🤯 I need to play with this!!

"How would the problem have to change so that this answer is...correct?" Dan Meyer #NCTMLA2022

One of the best bits of advice I’ve received: Do NOT try and revamp your whole class on the Sunday evening after a conference…instead think of ONE new thing to start on Monday! Thank you Jennifer BayWilliams and John SanGiovanni for kicking off our Monday with a new routine! #NCTMLA22

This does not promote thinking. TASM But can produce unproductive struggle.

#DidYouKnow? If you PRES and HOLD DOWN any fraction bar in Graspable Math you can multiply by any form of "1" you want so you can change how the rational expression looks! 😀 Quick demo within a proving #trig identities context. #MTBoS #ITeachmath