That I’ve been teaching for over 20 years, and in that experience teaching thousands of kids, more students with math anxiety have typical or high math ability. But let’s never question research or enter into healthy debates about it.

Welcome to the party :) Scenery is a little but different, but some definite familiarity of a time and place that once was :)

Manipulatives as tools to support/model/extend thinking across K-12. Also, kids “can use them as toys” and then as teachers, we can scaffold in learning based on what kids are doing.

2/2 Plus, forcing kids to adapt to a curriculum instead developing a repertoire and drawing upon what we need when we need it is just good teaching.

1/2 I’m not really referring to either. When districts mandate teachers use a particular curriculum and only that particular curriculum by default of the curriculum being static, it’s going to benefit some kids, but definitely won’t benefit all.

Language and oral storytelling is cultural and directly tied to how students might demonstrate understanding of concepts. How often do we see kids penalized and harmed for not demonstrating understanding according how the science or the curriculum says they should.
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3/3 Don’t get me wrong, direct instruction is a component of effective pedagogy. But we need to be very intentional with how/when/where/with who By not incorporating a variety of instruction and assessment techniques, we’ll support some, but what about everyone else? #iteachmath #mathsky #edusky

2/3 Instruction driven by the “Science of _____” does not consider cultural and community ways of knowing and doing mathematics, and as a result, is particularly harmful for students who historically and currently experience the greatest marginalization in math spaces. #iteachmath #mathsky #edusky

The example here, “my biggest takeaway from our time together” was the last activity I gave students before transitioning out of the classroom. Getting to be a part of someone, a families journey is the best part of being an educator. #mathsky #iteachmath #edusky

For me, that would be passionate, authentic and vulnerable. Then we get to a learning experience that brought us joy, because with everything around us, we need to be intentional and sit with the things that bring us the most joy.
#mathsky #iteachmath #edusky