"Specifically, for a lot of us, it doesn't always feel like you're banning the book itself. Sometimes it feels like you're banning the people that those books are about, that you're saying that those lives are lives that should only exist in the shadows."-Jason Reynolds #bookbans
How to Build Fraction Sense in the Elementary Grades. Operating with fractions is what most textbooks focus on. But in order to understand the operations, we first need to develop fraction sense.
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I’ve been working on building some text sets around books that are funny and lend themselves to mathy ideas. On Friday I get to try this one around Dog Man: Fetch 22, specifically my favorite character The Fair Fairy.
You see this? This is why #DisruptTexts and #WeNeedDiverseBooks matter. This is why we have this convo. When you welcome our voices, you welcome the topics that matter to us, from our pov. It makes everyone & everything better.
STOP BANNING US.