Miss Younger's Math Musings
I love the idea of a core word to describe teaching, learning, or thinking. My first word that came to mind was not in the list provided to choose from. One of my goals is for my students to become deep thinkers and to use a variety of thinking strategies to think for themselves. Scrolling…
I first heard the term Low Threshold – High Ceiling ( LTHC) tasks a few years ago in an afterschool workshop on getting students talking in socials and science. I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time, I was a first-year teacher and getting my feet wet with so many things it was…
Math routines have become one of my favourite ways to build number sense in my classroom. There are many math routines out there and I could not list them all in this post. Below I have outlined a few of my favourites. My Favourite No This has to be a favourite in my classroom and…
Over the last few weeks I have watched a large number of math themed Ted Talks and a few others about education I have posted my personal video play list below.
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf The Mathematician’s Lament hit me hard as someone who loves music and art, I couldn’t imagine a world where a child’s only exposure to art or music was one where it was so proscribed as Lockhart suggests. I grew up as a competitive dancer and it continues to shape my outlook, reading Lockhart’s Lament…
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TZvUFyHnv_QrAt5stbEtfd9EprUj4H19VtvdqvdxLFM/edit?usp=sharing In my most recent course we built a collective presentation this was a challenging exercise for me to know how to contribute to a group presentation that was built completely asynchronously. The results of this presentation surprised me in how well it came together and how little we doubled up on material. This presentation…
Family Numeracy Times In other years my school has celebrated Family Numeracy day in May where parents or other family members are invited to come to the school and play math games with their students for the first hour of the school day. This is a great way to engage families and show them how…
Would you want to be a part of a cohort in mathematics that tried Lesson Study? I would love to be part of a lesson study cohort specifically in math. I wish I had the confidence to suggest this to my coworkers. As the second youngest and newest teacher on staff I don’t always feel…
After watching the video twice I can see that Bill Gates brings up some good points about teachers needing coaching and descriptive feedback. We give descriptive formative feedback to our students but rarely receive it ourselves beyond our practicums. Currently it is on us to seek out feedback to help us grow. The idea of…
I decided to choose a country that we haven’t looked at in this course but when looking at PISA scores or other measures typically preforms well across all areas. The Finish education system has some similarities and more than a few differences with BC’s. one of the things that draw me to their system is…
