Taylor Wendell-Serrano

Former fourth grade teacher @ Humble ISD
Current educational coordinator @ UTHealth

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

I was ALWAYS right

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

Which teacher are you? Left or Right👀

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

@DianeZelezinski @HarrisonSD2 Wishing you so much happiness on this new adventure! 💕

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

Hi everyone! My friend works at the Houston Landing and recently wrote an article over obtaining school supplies. I hope this reaches the people it needs to. 🥰 Happy Back to School season!
https://t.co/INfrGEJFlm

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

Finished off our PFL unit with a game of Life! Loved the student collaboration during this unit & game!! Math can definitely be FUN.
#MarchMathMadness @HumbleElemMath @HumbleISD_FE

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

My desktop hasn't been working which means no projector. Gathered the kids together for science & put a Bill Nye video on... really wish I would've had one of these bad boys that I watched Bill Nye on back in elementary school. 🤣🤣 @HumbleISD_FE @BillNye

[FE_ArtClass @FE_ArtClass]

Just a few of the gorgeous smiling faces I captured today at our Super Kids Day! Inspired by artist Lorraine O’Grady’s “Art is…” photo troupe in 1983, I took pics of all the masterpieces we have at Foster Elementary! @HumbleISD_FE @VisualArtHumble #HUMBLEartists ❤️

[Zearn @zearned]

What's your “you know you're a math teacher" moment?

Thanks for sharing yours, @cklassen313!

#MathFam #MathIsEverywhere

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

Yesterday one student said, "I'm not sure if the first choice is right on #3 since it doesn't say more than 0 degrees." He's right. Anything 0 or less is not acute. Now I'm googling what negative angles are classified as since they can't, by definition, be acute, obtuse, etc...🤯

[Sutton Simon @suttonamysimon]

So much fun exploring our High Quality Instructional Tool @HumbleISD_FE 🙌🏼 Mmmake it!

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

New math infomercial: Have you tried this way of finding the greatest common factor?

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

I know this sounds nerdy but one of my favorite hobbies is to listen to students thinking and working together to solve math problems.

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Start some drama at the dinner table tonight by asking everyone how they would do 6÷2(1+2).

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

Husband asked me to figure out how much solution we would need for a 32 oz container if the bottle called for 2.5 oz for 1 gallon.
"I'm glad my wife is a math teacher"
Not a calculator in sight 👩‍🏫

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

@howie_hua I'm the total opposite! I love the feeling and flow of a pencil, especially the just-sharpened ones 😌. However, sometimes I'll write in pen under the document camera & of course mess up. My students always make a comment about how I should write in pencil instead 😅

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

Love this for sixes! We call our six facts our "half tens plus 1 set" facts. Ex) to get 6 x 6, do 6x 10 (60), take half of that (30), then add one set (6 x1 =6), so 30 +6 =36, aka... 6x6 is the same as (6×10)÷2+(1×6). Use what you know to get what you don't!

[Zearn @zearned]

It's always easier to work with a friendlier problem, but how do we get there?

Ss can break up 6 sixes into 5 sixes and 1 six.

That’s the distributive property!
It enables students to decompose larger unknown facts into smaller facts they may already know.

#NTChat

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

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[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

New TikTok video: Why is it important to learn multiple strategies in math class?

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

Some of my students choose to practice various strategies when they finish their activites early.
They asked me to laminate these so they won't get damaged, and I said of course I will!! Division with remainders? Easy!
Their love of learning 😍😍
@HumbleISD_FE @HumbleElemMath

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

THANK YOU for giving us the time to prepare! You're the best 🥰

[Courtney Hoyt @courtneyhoyt]

These math teachers have worked so hard today planning and prepping for Number Corner through December! 👏👏@HumbleElemMath @HumbleISD_FE @MLCmath

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

@JoniBry76879541 You're missing two partial products here!
For 2 by 2 digit multiplication, you have 4 partial products. For this problem it would be:
10 × 10 = 100
10 x 3 = 30
10 x 2 = 20
2 x 3 = 6
So 12 x 13 = 156 hope this helps!

[Taylor Wendell-Serrano @TaylorWendellFE]

(12×10) + (12×3)
120+ 36 = 156 :)

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

It's Mental Math Monday. How would you mentally calculate 12×13?