Mrs. Stapler

#ERHS & #eSTEMacademy teacher. Advocate & #CNTA site rep. Passions: #equity & conceptual learning. Working on #sbl and #MRWC. PN: she/her. Tweets are my own.

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

Pinning this so it’s the first thing my students will see if they follow me:

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Your mathematician name is:

Your first name + Your last name

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

@howie_hua I legitimately never get tired of this bit.

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

@Anthony_Bonato Whichever works best for the situation I’m in and the math I’m trying to accomplish!

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

You've heard of elf on the shelf but have you heard of

[Sam Blatherwick @blatherwick_sam]

Did this with Year 7 and blew their minds... told them they could start from the left because we didn't need to borrow anymore... consternation!! So exciting to do something new in a framework they are so familiar with

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

@McGrawHillK12 Thanks for sharing!

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

@McGrawHillK12 Is there a good way to reach out to you with suggestions for future updates? Specifically I work with the 6-8 Reveal Math curriculum at CNUSD and have some feedback. Thanks!

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

@howie_hua Ineghoulaties!

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

@howie_hua If there are 367 people in a lecture hall, at least one of them share a birthday (although it’s likely to happen much sooner than that, as we know from ANOTHER fun math thing).

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

@DavidKButlerUoA I can subitize groups of 5, then make groups of 5 with the leftovers… and there was one left.

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

@TansuYegen Rather than using algebra at this level, I would expect students to see this more as a double number line. The difference between the shapes on the top and bottom is one semi-circle diameter… the difference between the spacing son the top and bottom is 36… ergo,…

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

Discussing with other people and considering different ideas, that was the fun part (for me). Math can be social and collaborative, and, when it is, it can also be engaging in and of itself. At least, that’s the case from my perspective. I’d love to hear yours. (End thread)

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

Time for a deep dive into a pre-calculus problem that popped up in a middle school math teacher group today…
“Janine bikes 3mph faster than her sister, Jessica. Janine can ride 36 mi in 2 hr less time than Jessica can ride the same distance. Find each of their speeds.”

[Mrs. Stapler @thatmathclass]

Honestly, if all my teacher talked about was my first solution, I wouldn’t have been all that interested in this problem beyond that. What made it interesting to me was investigating and connecting different solution approaches, even misguided ones, to each other.