Actually, more like first, third-and-fourth, first, third-and-fourth. #ElemMathChat

A6: I noticed that if I focused on what finger my thumb had to be holding down (first, third, first, third), this was no longer finger chaos! #ElemMathChat

A5: a tiny bit of the keyboard for those four fingers. #ElemMathChat

A2a: I feel like I didn't really do #WODB as I tried to tie them together. But I was still focused on their attributes, so definitely related thinking. #ElemMathChat

Rockin’!! Adding @ralphpantozzi.bsky.social in public because he said he’d help!

An architect friend of my dad's gave me the Altair Design coloring books in the early 70's. Loved them, but felt bad using them up! I should pull them back out - pretty sure they're still in the same drawer at my dad's house.

Tuesday works for me. The German place was very German! I'd eat there again.

Yea, you just want a couple of kids to go, "Ohhhhhh! I get it! I can totally do that next time!" I mean, saying "use the area model" doesn't help if they missed the fact that you're literally finding the areas of rectangles and they view it as procedural mysticism. #ElemMathChat

I like the area model, too - so helpful! And I like tying it to the partial products, in case students find that sufficient instead of drawing the rectangle each time. But gives more support. #ElemMathChat

It's funny because I totally know ("own") that 100/8 is 12.5, but my brain didn't go to 125*8=1000 nearly as quickly. Aren't brains fun?? #ElemMathChat