Joanne Blake

Wife, Mother of 4 boys, GT/Title I/GOM Coordinator

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

Math Teachers- looking for ideas to help 3rd graders understand how much the number 100,000 represents. Any suggestions/images that you know of to help students visualize the size of the number? #mtbos. #elemmathchat #maththinkers #BTC

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@DrBradJohnson @teachergoals World

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….,Or what resources are you using that you feel/know based on data that are helping your students achieve at high levels and provide that vertical alignment from grade to grade? #mctm, #MCTM, #MNmathteachers

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

#mtbos and #ElemMathChat- any MN teachers use Illustrative Math for their main resource? Thoughts? #mathteacher

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

@Amypbarrett These are for grades K-2. I have a sheet with each one that indicates the item and the number of items. Kits are in ranges of 10-31, 20-75, 5--200, etc.

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

All ready for another year if Counting Collections!! #Elemmathchat #mtbos
#countingcollections

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

#mtbos and #ElemMathChat- any MN teachers use Illustrative Math for their main resource? Thoughts? #mathteacher

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

Thank you for your donation @Wipebook! So excited to share about Building Thinking Classrooms at our EPIC PD 2024 next week. #thinkingclassroom #mtbos

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

@howie_hua @eluberoff 73 + 30 = 103
103 + 7 = 110
I usually add the ones to make a ten first but this one seemed to lend itself toward starting with the tens. #mentalmath

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

@kimmontague @pwharris Thanks. I think the main thing I need to learn to do better is facilitating the problem strings in such a way that the students see the relationships of the numbers for themselves. Planning what questions I may need to ask will help!

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

How do you recommend introducing subtraction strategies to 3rd graders when their go to is the traditional algorithm (but frequently inaccurate). They also haven’t had experience with open number lines yet. #elemmathchat @pwharris @kimmontague

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

@RawdingMolly I just found a box of old keys at a garage sale to add to our counting collections.
Are those sponges in the center container? Always looking for new ideas to add. #countingcollections

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

@pwharris Oops- That should have said “strategy”, not “model”.

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

@pwharris The problem I had posted was 18 x 5. The students had several ways to solve, but none used the doubling/halving model. I put this model on the board, and I said, "Last year, a student did this. What do you notice?" This then led to conversations about doubling/halving.

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

@pwharris I put it on previous students (which is true) as I didn't want to take away from strategies they shared and feel they have to do it the way I did it. I don't want them mimicking, but wanted to nudge them toward another strategy.

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

With the three subtraction strategies @pwharris, is teaching the traditional algorithm necessary? Making sense of numbers and their place value- much easier. Worked with some students using the difference strategy; they found a new love for subtraction! #changemathclass

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

A5) We just spent the month of April promoting math and a growth mindset and showing how math is all around us and how each of us is a math person. My colleague found this video that we shared with the student and staff. #elemmathchat https://t.co/tfio1vcUaj

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

@MathRocks73 @SteveWyborney I love Steve Wyborney's work! So many wonderful visual prompts - leads to great discussion and thinking.

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

A2) I love this quote. I have it in my classroom and often refer back to it with students. #elemmathchat

[Joanne Blake @jblake2185]

A0) Joanne - Minnesota; Unique Learners Coordinator - I always thought that to be considered good at math I needed to follow all the rules and do it the same way the teacher did it. #elemmathchat