When your school is 65% black and your advanced classes are 95% white there is a problem with equal access to the curriculum. 🤨 EVERY student deserves a chance to do challenging, interesting mathematics. #ITeachMath #MTBoS
Susan Carriker
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Susan Carriker
@techknowmath
- The students have left the building. Tomorrow I will finish packing, and turn in my badge and keys. My teaching career is finally coming to an end. 🙂 #mtbos
- Test corrections turn into a collaborative poster project. 🤓 Students work in teams of 3 to correct and reflect on 3 items of their choosing. Afterwards, they view other teams posters and leave comments on sticky notes 🥳 #iteachmath #mtbos
- Pssst... Guess what? 🤫 Your grading is very unscientific and subjective. It probably doesn't mean what you think it means. When possible, choose to grade to encourage and empower. Grace and grades should go hand in hand. 🤓🎉🥰🥳 #ITeachMath #MTBoS
- I had a boy in my Algebra class who was very reluctant to take any sort of test . He claimed he had never passed a math test, but when working with him in class it became quite evident he knew enough to pass easily. I spent a few weeks cajoling him to "show me what you know" on
- In Japan, teachers introduce a new mathematical concept by presenting an unfamiliar problem to students to grapple with on their own. Most of the students answer the new problem incorrectly, but the teacher guides the discussion to generate conversation about students’
- Replying to @DrChaeEdIn other words, "the job load is impossible, but we expect you to do it all, and here are 5 more things we want you to do since you didn't get it all done last year" 🤓
- Flip "I do. We do. You do" around! 🙃 Let kids (1) play, explore, question, engage, (2) then offer #Socratic questioning to advance the work as you share out student thinking, 🤓 and (3) Intro formal methods and tie it into the student work 🥳 #iteachmath #mtbos
- I quit giving retakes. If a student scores higher on a test, the grade on the test replaces the previous test grade (all tests are cumulative). Ss are less stressed about their grades and they are rewarded for improving which is a win-win 🤓🥳 #ITeachMath #mtbos
- Want to lighten your load? Grade less, have conversations with kids instead of quizzes, test less, give kids opportunities to create, demonstrate and collaborate 🤓🥳 #iteachmath #mtbos
- So much math, so many ideas, yet we spend many years teaching kids mostly arithmetic and algorithms. What percentage of this math is encountered by the average kid? .. or adult? ..or MATH TEACHER? #iteachmath
- We simply must STOP forcing school on kids. If they are hating it, that is a problem. We have ignored students hating school for generations. This generation is saying NO MORE! Will we listen? #iteachmath #mtbos
