Probably worth noting that inflation, violent crime and border apprehensions - three sources of HUGE coverage on their way up - are all coming down significantly.
"The way we heal from trauma is to create a safe space for people to explore their past experiences with math and simultaneously infuse it with new, joyful experiences." - @LieslMcconchie
Listen 🎙️: https://t.co/f2oIuxukxV
#MTBoS#MathTherapy
A CHILD'S SUMMER ASSIGNMENT: play outside, all day. American Academy of Pediatrics: “the lifelong success of children is based on their ability to be creative and to apply the lessons learned from playing.” @pasi_sahlberg@DianeRavitch@FreeRangeKids
Help kids with descriptive writing, use AI to plug in the description they write and see if they want to modify it based on the picture generated. What a way to have a student conference. That's a branch from this list.
TN State Rep. @brotherjones_ says "it's morally insane" that he and two Dem colleagues are facing expulsion over gun violence protests.
"It's very concerning and it represents a clear and present danger to democracy all across this nation that should trouble us all."
Next Tuesday, March 14, is both π Day and the International Day of Mathematics! This thread contains many free resources from Mathigon which you can use to celebrate this wonderful day. #PiDay@idm314 🧵
Total student loan debt erased by Biden plan: $400 billion
Total cost of the 2017 GOP tax cuts: $1.9 trillion
Funny how Republicans have no problem giving corporations and billionaires big tax cuts, but erasing some student loan debt for millions of people is just too much.
I was asked the difference between tricks & the multiplication chart - tricks work sometimes and the multiplication chart works all the time. It also transitions very well into equivalent fractions. Like the area model works with polynomials. Thank you for this!
Wow. Mike Pence just said this morning that we have to put cuts to Social Security and Medicare “on the table in the long term.” Everyone needs to see this. (h/t @Fritschner)
I introduced Exploding Dots to a 4th grade class today, mostly the 1-10 machine it was amazing. If only my whole day could be this much fun. The questions, observations and math talk was incredible.
A prompt to try with students: How many?
Annotate different ways of seeing it.
Potential follow-up: How might this help you solve 53+34?
#mathnsr#howmany