Anna McQuillan

I share math teaching stories and learn from my students every day. IG: mcqmath 🌾 Treaty 6 Territory and Homeland of the Métis. she/her

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

@an_smiiith Super excited to be working with you!

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

My time at @BethlehemStars is over. Next year I’m moving to @HCHSCrusaders.

I’ll miss the students, families, & staff I’ve made connections with over the past several years; thank you all for your kindness.❤️ Hope we can keep in touch because I want to hear all your updates!😉

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

Teachers are continually being asked to support students with less. Recently, @GSCSNews shared this infographic.

Will @SaskParty ever realize that an investment in education is an investment in our province? Constant cuts hurt our province. But most importantly, cuts hurt kids.

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

Why haven’t I been posting lately? My classes are larger this term, with greater needs, and I can’t do it all. It’s demoralizing.

I want to be able to share the mathematical joy I see in my students, but frankly, it’s just another thing on my plate, on top of the high demands.

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

Here is this year’s Desmos art 😍 Check out the animation that one student made with colour gradients! 😍😍

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

A lovely family gifted me this mug last year and it happens to have the perfect angle for the “lip”, but unfortunately I’m drinking NeoCitran out of it. The illness wheel in our family has spun back around to me. 🤧😷

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

@SaskTeachersFed I have so many amazing colleagues across this province, but special shout out to Lynette Bohmann at @BethlehemStars who has always been a strong advocate for all students!

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

@an_smiiith I did it today with Gr 12 foundations. I set norms in Gr 11 pre-calc with a series of #wodb moving from non-curricular to factoring #wodb review. And in Gr 9, we did some #wodb and open middles today.

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

One of my favourite tasks to start setting norms in a new semester: four 4s!

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

Final assessments are marked, so naturally I’m procrastinating doing report card comments by washing all my mini-whiteboards 😆😆

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

@an_smiiith Great news! Congratulations An!

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

@carterorieux Good luck in your first week. I’m looking forward to reading about your experiences (and learning from you)!

[Matt Enlow @CmonMattTHINK]

Yesterday during a class break I heard an Alg II Honors student making comments about how "stupid" she is. (This is a S who aces almost every assessment.) I'd heard her say similar things offhandedly in the past, but I decided I needed to address it directly. 1/6 #iteachmath

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

Thanks for sharing the Calc activities all term Jamie. When I try some next term I’ll report back.

Re collab note: what tech access do your students have? When did this happen — class, home? Using their phones or tech provided by the school? Some formatting is quite involved!

[Jamie Mitchell @realJ_Mitchell]

It's the end of semester one.
I've been tweeting about the different #ThinkingClassroom activities we did in Calculus and Vectors.
One thing I didn't mention was how I encouraged meaningful notes.
Interested in what we did?

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

Aww, Alex! File that one away in the memory box. 🥹 Also, I’m sure this student articulated what many of the others are thinking!

[Alex Overwijk @AlexOverwijk]

“You actually cared to teach us the theoretical cognition behind the mathematical content, in a way that was accessible to students who weren’t necessarily inclined towards STEM. I really appreciate that.”

Someone cutting onions-must be my old age!

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

@AOgieglo Wow! Many congratulations!

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

After the many extra hrs I worked this past week to re-assess outcomes, plus the end of term emotions of leaving good classes, I went to the lake with the girl. #rest The boy stayed home for his bball.

He has already phoned his sister THREE times before 9am! #twins

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

Today, our last day before finals, I did a course eval in one class: 20 Ss felt there was good balance of #vnps vs indiv work time, 5 want ⬆️ indiv time, and 3 ⬆️ #vnps.

I work hard to improve my #ThinkingClassroom each term so it’s rewarding when student feedback reflects that.

[Anna McQuillan @mcqmath]

@NatBanting All groups got this #menumath in class time. That quote was 35 min in when a group started getting nervous I would cut them off.

For the record, I didn’t, they finished it, proved it, and we even had time for other ques.

I may need to use Legacy Soln in Calc next term!