@cluzniak Learning an algorithm is like standing with your nose against a tree. Understanding number relationships is like standing back and looking at the forest.
#Numbertalk fun & learning at Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual conference. Thanks @Wipebook for making it easy to display participant thinking! #iteachmath
@MrDanielBuck As a secondary teacher, more planning time, longer classes, fewer of them. Some out here have 8 flippin class periods a day! It’s Lucy & Ethel on the assembly line nuts!
@chrispaulrogers @MrDanielBuck Heard @john_hattie’s reply to this once - if I remember correctly, all other things the same, teachers don’t tend to change instruction in meaningful ways with smaller class sizes.
@geoffkrall Good luck! It’s quite a journey (a bit extended for me.) What you learn about yourself will be as important as what you learn about MathEd.
@ddmeyer ❤️ the buzz of discourse & productive argumentation, eavesdropping on multiple small group conversations. My brain can’t even handle a digital replication of this.
@zdearaujo Aidan made this type of argument for decisions on a budgeting spreadsheet project in college this year; instructor said she didn't follow his directions about how much she should budget for a car and docked 2 full letter grades.
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