Miss Younger's Math Musings
In reading about the different approaches to education and curriculum I realize that I don’t fit into any one particular box. I like elements of several and combine what works for me and my students to best fit their needs. If I were to pick one that best connects to my style of teaching it…
For the last few years creating thriving community connections for our classrooms has been a challenge with COVID 19 protocols and the world first closing and then slowly reopening. One of my favourite connections that my class has is our grade 9 and 10 buddies at a local high school, we get together about once…
“Include others in decision making. A class, group, or family can codevelop criteria for rules, or examine rules to understand what criteria were considered in making the rules. Safety, equity, and protecting the leaders may be some criteria used in the development of rules. What criteria are used to decide whether a source of information…
“However, the theory didn’t become widespread among public school educators as a theory of assessment, it became popularized as a theory of teaching- prescribing when and how outcomes should be addressed.” (Case, The Unfortunate Consequences of Bloom’s Taxonomy, 2013) Wow, was this statement impactful! I began my teacher education in the fall of 2014 and…
Over the past couple years, I have often been asked by people in my personal life or my school, “why math?” I don’t have a definitive single defining moment answer but can draw on inspiration from many places. The first being I like patterns and when things happen in a predictable way. However, I credit…
Hello Wonder Families, Welcome to Division 5! We are looking forward to an exciting grade four year. My name is Ms. Younger, and I am excited to be entering my fifth year at LFES and my eighth year in the Langley School District. I completed my Bachelor’s in Geographic Information Systems in 2014 and my…
Over the past two school years I have been working towards fully implementing the Building Thinking Classrooms approach to teaching math. I’ve found that this has also led to me looking for a much wider library of rich math tasks. Changing my approach to teaching math has really opened my eyes to what is possible…
Resilient Problem Solving.pptx Over the past few weeks my definition and beliefs around innovation and what counts as innovation has shifted. Only a few weeks ago I believed that to innovate you had to be doing something brand-new and never seen before and that I was not an innovator. Over the past few weeks while…
Introduction The idea of Intelligent Fast Failure resonated with me instantly, that giving students the opportunity to not only try but to fail allowed them to fully engage in the learning process. “Students who tried lots of ideas in a short period of time were going through a process of fast failure wherein each failed…
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I found this assignment challenging, as my thinking about curriculum and planning has always been fluid and further evolved while reading in this module. Representing the ideas visually was tricky, as a learner with ADHD I often describe my thinking as in webs rather than in lines or patterns, I jump from one connection to…
