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The most critical part of listening is asking what is at stake for the other person. I try to understand what matters to them, not what I think matters ... As Hannah Arendt says, āOne trains oneās imagination to go visiting.ā --filmmaker Valarie KaurĀ on listening
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With Pi Day just around the corner, letās remember what Pi is all about.
After washing your hands thoroughly, cut the crust off a pizza pie and lay it across four others. Youāll see that the crust spans a little more than 3 pies. Thatās Pi ā 3.14.
But thatās not all! (Contād)
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Every year I see kids do this.
āTwo-and-a-half quartersā
What we do when things like this pop up matters! What would you say or do next?
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Today in my Skype a Scientist session a girl asked me a hard hitting question: what do you do with your hair when you go in the ocean. Idk if y'all realize this, but these are real concerns. The simple answer I gave was: I put it in a pony tail, but it's so much more complex 1/9
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It's time for #MathStratChat!
Rules: tweet a favorite, clever solution or find an equally clever strategy.
Like this stuff? Check out my online workshop: bit.ly/propreas
#MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathIsFigureOutAble #MSMathChat #ElemMathChat #HSMathChat #T3Learns #DeafStemEd
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Jo Boaler just showed me what a typical Japanese textbook looks like. Check out the thicknessā¦ Not!
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First day of class for my master's capstone course for math educators, and the instructor opens with: "What is math?" How would you have answered (in 1 tweet)? #mtbos #iteachmaths
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Why is it you can find Keep-Change-Flip in every school in the nation, but partial products are still mind blowing and new for at least one teacher at every school? How DOES that KCF stuff get around?? #Mtbos ā at Philadelphia, PA
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Thank you for joining us this morning @howie_hua to share your brief and powerful ways to help us expand our views of what it means to do math and who is a mathematician. Much appreciation!! ā„ļøā„ļø
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My son says there is 306 black squares and I have no idea if heās right. How would you count? #mtbos #tmwyk #iteachmath
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#Kindergarten room 12-our first #numbertalks ! We stayed on task and focused for 10 minutes on #friday afternoon, the first week of classes! #THATSAWIN #studentengagement #math @114STEM @WHSTEMAcademy
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Elected officials keep making casual, ignorant, idiotic accusations of ātreason.ā Trump does it. Just saw Liz Cheney do it. Read the Constitution and knock it the hell off.
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What does it mean to "Practice" mathematics?
I've made some distinctions between 2 types of practice:
buildingmathematicians.wordpā¦
#mtbos #iteachmath #elemmathchat #mathconceptions #mathchat
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I donāt focus my classroom on solvingĀ problems problemproblems.wordpress.coā¦
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Site re-model hopefully finished within the month.
All images, posts, and spotlights will still be available, but direct links to content will change.
Means if youāve copied or shared links to images, they will be dead.
Main URL will remain the same.
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Is it better to solve problems in isolation or by collaborating with others?
Harvard research says . . . neither.
The best solutions come from "intermittent collaboration" -- group work punctuated by breaks to think & work by ourselves.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stoā¦
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What are we learning about in #Spark114? Content, pedagogy, and growth mindset! @114Math @CollegeSparkWA
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A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern quantamagazine.org/a-chemistā¦ via @QuantaMagazine
This is really cool.