Using Animation to Promote Discourse – Steve Wyborney

Animation propels mathematical discourse. The simple concept of visual change invites wonder and provides ample space for multiple perspectives. Animated illustrations also provide a clear, common context for discourse. This session of the Global Math Department will feature a wide range of animated questions which will offer insights to viewers and feature ready-to-use animated questions which can be downloaded at the conclusion of the session.
Watch the full presentation at: https://www.bigmarker.com/GlobalMathDept/Using-Animation-to-Promote-Discourse

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This presentation was recorded on May 5, 2017

Now It’s Time To Say Goodbye To All Our Global Math Company.







Now It’s Time To Say Goodbye To All Our Global Math Company.



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Everyday Formative Assessment that Transforms Teaching and Learning
Presented by Beth Kobett (@bkobett)

Join us for our final session of the 2016-17 school year. This presentation will engage participants in considering how everyday use of formative assessment, in-the-moment classroom-based assessment techniques (observations, interviews, Show Me, hinge questions, exit tasks), directly influence and empower teacher planning and instruction AND impact student achievement!

To join the meeting when it starts at 9pm Eastern (or RSVP if it’s before 9pm), click here.

Did you miss last week’s session? Never fear! Click here to listen to Jules Bonin-Ducharme discuss convergent and divergent problem solving.

The #MTBOS Never Sleeps

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See you real soon
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Why? Because we like you
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As we close out another abundant year of Global Math Department, I wanted to take a moment to thank the amazing team of writers and editors who put together our newsletter week in and week out. Like it says above, the #MTBoS never sleeps, but that doesn’t mean we all have time to keep up with the countless tweets and blog posts that our community shares. The Global Math Department writers do that for us, combing the mathematical internet and sharing the juiciest tidbits in each week’s newsletter.

Several writers and editors will be staying along for the ride next year – Nate Goza, Andrew Stadel, Graham Fletcher, and Matthew Engle. Sadly, it’s time to say goodbye to others, all of whom have volunteered their time across multiple school years – Sahar Khatri, Andrew Gael, Kent Haines, Wendy Menard, Jenise Sexton, Carl Oliver, and Audrey McLaren.

Staying or going, we appreciate their time and dedication to sharing with the rest of us and making the #MTBoS a community unlike any other.

Written by Brian Bushart (@bstockus)

Tessellation Nations

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This week was World Tessellation Day! I only knew this because of Evelyn Lamb’s (@evelynjlamb) Scientific American article about floor tiling as a great treasury of tessellations. My favourite quote from her article: “Interesting tessellations are like Easter eggs for math enthusiasts and pattern aficionados to discover as they go about their daily business.” I actually knew what she meant by Easter egg! (It’s not really an Easter egg.) Also on the subject of World Tessellation Day is Pat Ashforth’s (@matheknitician) amazing knitted tessellations. Her website, Wooly Thoughts, is a wonderful mathcrafts resource. And that should totally be a word – mathcrafts. It is time.

Both of these articles made me wonder which came first – the artistic inspiration or the math – to create such beautiful things. I’m sure even the people who created them would have a hard time answering.

Written by Audrey McLaren (@a_mcsquared)

Too Good Not to Share

For me the school year is a distant memory. For some, it’s very much in the present. Although this article is not a personal blog, it’s just too good not to share. If you let it, these 7 fundamentals can be an aha, rebuke, or confirmation in your life as an educator in the new school year.

Exploring 7 Fundamental Truths That Can Transform Teaching appeared in my timeline courtesy of @blbbrush. Allow the list below to intrigue you, as my synopsis would not award the powerful message it exudes.

  1. Nobody Cares How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care.

  2. You Can Be Better Than You Were Yesterday (my favorite)

  3. What Matters Most About Feedback is Its Usefulness

  4. Collaboration is About Connection, Communication, and Compassion

  5. Interest Comes Before Learning (my aha)

  6. Never Skimp on the Shoes (my rebuke)

  7. Your Students Are Your Greatest Teachers.

Written by Jenise Sexton (@MrsJeniseSexton)

Bonus Chapter

If you haven’t read Tracy Zager’s book Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had, what are you waiting for? The time has never been better. First of all, there is a weekly book talk happening on Twitter and on Tracy’s forum as the MTBoS works its way through the chapters. You can check out the schedule here.  

But as it turns out, Tracy left a chapter out of her book. She couldn’t fit in all her ideas about math tools, so instead she has shared them in a recent blog post. In the context of sharing her skepticism of digital tools, Tracy shares a wonderful professional strategy (do math and talk about it with paraprofessionals!) and a fascinating mathematical idea (the associative property, which is waaay underrated).

If you haven’t read Tracy’s book, check out her post and see why everyone is so excited about her work. If you’ve already finished the book and are suffering from withdrawal, use this post to tide you over for a few days. I’m sure there will be another one soon enough.

Written by Kent Haines (@KentHaines)

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This Week at Global Math Department







This Week at Global Math Department



Edited By Sahar Khatri @MyMathscape

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Convergent or Divergent Problem Solving As a teacher, should you converge to a single solution at the end of a lesson or diverge to different thinking with each student? Is an open-middle a better approach to an open-ended type problem? Through activities, you will be able to compare differences and similarities between both strategies. Tune in tonight at 9 PM HERE.

Last week: Mathematical Modeling in School Mathematics – Even if we give students the very best mathematical modeling problems, we are not necessarily teaching students to be good mathematical modelers. Mathematical modeling requires making choices, and teaching mathematical modeling requires knowing the choices to be made and teaching students how to be, well, choosy. We will make explicit the little and not so little things we can do every day to help students learn how to make choices that matter when modeling. To listen to the recording, click here.

Great Blogging Actions

Abductive Reasoning

 

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You’ve probably heard of inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning in math classroom. Have your heard of “abductive reasoning”? Head on over to Chase Orton’s blog, Undercover Calculus, and read about his new favorite term in math education. Don’t let the [calculus] title of Chase’s blog scare you. He works with all grade levels of math students and educators, documenting both his work and thinking along the way. Always a joy to read. Happy summer!

~by Andrew Stadel (@mr_stadel)

More Vocabulary!

Anything that gets students using more vocabulary is going to catch my attention, and Sara VanDerWerf’s (@saravdwerf) recent post has done just that.  This post was actually a guest post on Sara’s blog.  The author, Ole Rapson, highlighted a new routine she and other teachers are experimenting with that they call Tally Talks, where students get together and solve a problem while using specified vocabulary in their responses.  One student explains how to use it using the vocab given, while the other marks off when the words are used.

A feature of this post that I really enjoyed was the author’s highlighting of the evolution of the activity and its various tweaks.  I could totally see this basic idea being utilized in so many ways to fit many different situations.  Students will be talking and writing math more using this simple routine, and it seems that you get a lot of bang for your buck with this one.  I can’t wait to try it myself in the fall!

~ by Matthew Engle (@pickpocketbme)

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Summer Is Coming







Summer Is Coming



Edited By Nate Goza @thegozaway

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Mathematical Modeling in School Mathematics: It’s about Knowing the Givens and the Chosens
Presented by Rose Mary Zbiek 

Even if we give students the very best mathematical modeling problems, we are not necessarily teaching students to be good mathematical modelers. Mathematical modeling requires making choices, and teaching mathematical modeling requires knowing the choices to be made and teaching students how to be, well, choosy. We will make explicit the little and not so little things we can do every day to help students learn how to make choices that matter when modeling.
 

To join the meeting when it starts at 9pm Eastern (or RSVP if it’s before 9pm), click here.

Missed last week’s session?  Christine Newell talked about targeted math discussions that engage students in their mathematical thinking.  Click here to check it out!

Finishing the Year with the #MTBoS

Year in the Life

As the year comes to a close, so ends the steady stream of this year’s Day in the Life posts from bloggers around the #MTBoS. The posts are part of a project spearheaded by Tina Cardone who started tossing this idea around in early August of 2016. This was wrapped up in a post last week, The Year In The Life of a Teacher. Tina writes that “The next step is to figure out the story we want to tell and the best way to tell it.” If you have any ideas, head on over to Tina’s post and leave some ideas in the comments.

For people who are #stillinschool, students’ struggles are certainly becoming all too real, especially as they are preparing for end of the year assessments. Reading Dylan Kane’s recent post shows a bad habit that I know I am guilty of in the face of students struggling. The post, Responding to Student Struggle, is a response to an Ilana Horn talk that was full of insight. Dylan writes about a finding from a study that teachers who struggle can lower the cognitive demand of the tasks. This was something that I’ve caught myself doing this year. This bad habit comes in part from focusing on shortcomings, and from thinking of student deficits as something that can’t be overcome. “One solution Lani offers”, Dylan writes, “is teacher education and ongoing professional development that focus on ability, bias, and an asset-orientation to counter deficit thinking.” Certainly reading Dylan’s post and watching Lani’s talk would be a good start.

Written by Carl Oliver (@carloliwitter)

Targeting Math at Target

Over the past 3 years Brian Bushart has helped moderate and churn the Kool-Aid over #ElemMathChat. From there, he’s shared his amazing Numberless Word Problem Sets and now he’s got me hooked on his shopping inspirations. If you’re a fan of Notice and Wonder or Estimation 180, then Brian’s visual inspirations are right up your alley.

How many globe string lights are in the box?


 

Written by Graham Fletcher (@gfletchy)

GMD Podcast


 

We all know Global Math Department talks are full of great information about math education. When the session ends, it can be hard to get in front of a computer to go back and re-watch old talks. Going back to previous episodes to gather that information is about to get much easier. You can now listen to select recordings of Global Math Department Conferences on the Global Math Department Podcast. You can find GMD talks on iTunes and Google Play (and in a few days Stitcher). Conferences will be posted roughly every other week, with the emphasis on talks which lend themselves well to the audio format. A number of posts from this year are up and more will be posted throughout the summer. If there are any recordings you want included let me know, @carloliwitter.

Join Our Team!

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