Rebekah Clark

Teaching & learning in upper primary in Central Australia. Excited about Maths and inquiry.

[Dave Clark @DaveClarkWriter]

I have an article and video on the ABC website today 😊So excited about this piece!

My article is sharing what it is like to live with chronic fatigue syndrome, and the video is of a poem called ‘Enough,’ about the impact of #CFS on my sense of worth.

https://t.co/TNp8iD0X98

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

We did a ‘stock and flow’ of our class culture, then created a word cloud of all the positives. Students are clearly loving their specialist science lessons!

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

Students loved SURF Maths’ Nearest to One, then we changed it to Nearest to Zero to practice subtracting fractions.

Most students estimated, some calculated, but again @MathigonOrg was so helpful for giving a visual!
#MTBoS

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

@davidporas @MathigonOrg @reSolveMBI Thank you! It’s a brilliant resource. We’re going to do the lesson on adding fractions today, using the polypad with the scales.

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

We’ve just discovered the polypad on @MathigonOrg and I don’t know who’s more obsessed, me or the students! Brilliant visual for @reSolveMBI’s fraction benchmarks task.

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

‘This is not a fly-in, fly-out political game. You are not focusing on the real issues and you have turned us into a media circus. Enough is enough.’

[Guardian Australia @GuardianAus]

We cannot lose another generation of our children. Listen to the voices of central Australia https://t.co/tYaTKDGbpo

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

Brilliant show tonight from musical genius @andrewjhansen #MICF

[Dave Clark @DaveClarkWriter]

This is a clear and great article about #AliceSprings, written by amazing workers at the forefront of services that are addressing key issues in the town.

[Dave Clark @DaveClarkWriter]

I've lived in #AliceSprings for 13 years & feel safe living here.

There are issues here, ones that have been around for a long time with deep, complex reasons for them.
What's happening now is sadly the same pattern we've seen for most of that time - reactionary responses (1/4)

[Amie Albrecht - moved to 🦋 @nomad_penguin]

NEW Blog Post: ‘ABC Ockham’s Razor: Endnotes’

I was on the radio this morning, talking about the magic of storytelling in mathematics.

The blog post contains links to the audio, the transcript, and to all the sources of inspiration for the talk.

https://t.co/XEh1cp5upq

[Alex Barwick @_AlexBarwick]

First Nations women in 'homicide capital' say they're too scared to call the police ⁦@Samjonscher⁩ #alicesprings https://t.co/UnlZ120mZm

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

@nomad_penguin Haha same! I don’t think I had any other options 🤷‍♀️

Wordle 480 2/6

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[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

What a cool score pattern!! I wonder how many other afl point/goal combos work like this? #MTBoS #MTBoZ #lessonstarter

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

@AliceintheAlice The big bin is pretty amazing 😂 but it drives me nuts that it’s ‘shittest’ and not ‘shittiest’ 😣

[Alice Woods 🌻🌻🌻 @AliceintheAlice]

When more than half of Aboriginal adults have low literacy, the best gift you can give a child is a parent who can read and write https://t.co/AWU87HDujW

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

@JoshuaZed1 @MrFrenchTeaches @howie_hua I hate the message that goes along with making them use pencils - ‘so you can erase your mistakes!’ No, I WANT to see the mistakes!

[Amie Albrecht - moved to 🦋 @nomad_penguin]

NEW Blog Post: ‘What do we mean by ‘problem solving’?’

https://t.co/JcEDQYVTBy

A look at what we might mean by the term, and how it might shape our teaching of mathematics.

#MTBoS

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

@AliceintheAlice Oh no!! Poor Maryanne, SO good you got her to go!! And great that her dog has a safe and donut-y place to stay while she recovers 💛

[Rebekah Clark @bekdotclark]

Started the term with this fabulous Maths300 lesson - so much great discussion and investigation!

[Dave Clark @DaveClarkWriter]

I wrote this piece #IThoughtYouSaidYouWereSick for @SelcouthStation on my experience with chronic fatigue syndrome.

It looks at what CFS is like, microaggressions that people with long-term illnesses often face & the necessity of compassion.

#CFS #memoir #compassion #illness