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This week will be fun and frivolous in the best kind of way, dear peeps who love math and teaching! We’re going to do two things. We’re going to play “Some truths and maybe a lie?” and also you’ll share a photograph from your phone that brings you joy -- and explain why.
In your post:
1. Write down three facts about yourself, but one, two, or all three can be lies!
2. Share your photo and explain why it brings you joy.
3. Tag your post with #prompt3 and #ClassroomMathOf course the whole point of this is to get people talking! So after you post, look around at other posts with the #prompt3 hashtag and make a guess! Are any of them lies? All of them? Bonus fake points if you start talking with someone you’ve never talked to.
As always, to practice using mathstodon, two challenges. First, find a new hashtag based on one of your interests that people are posting with (for example, #knitting) and “follow it” so it shows up in your timeline. Then share it with the #ClassroomMath community in case others are interested.
Second, many of you have been using the official mastodon app, but (@jreulbach and @samjshah) have tried many apps and we’re loving IceCube for iPhones: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884. So our first suggestion is to check that out!
If you have any ideas for future prompts or ways to build community, please DM @samjshah and @jreulbach! We’d love help keeping the conversations happening!
[Note: If you want to know what the previous prompts were, you can read them here https://samjshah.com/2023/07/04/lets-get-mathstodoning-together/ and you can also search for #prompt1 and #prompt2 to see the replies!]
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This week will be fun and frivolous in the best kind of way, dear peeps who love math and teaching! We’re going to do two things. We’re going to play “Some truths and maybe a lie?” and also you’ll share a photograph from your phone that brings you joy -- and explain why.
In your post:
1. Write down three facts about yourself, but one, two, or all three can be lies!
2. Share your photo and explain why it brings you joy.
3. Tag your post with #prompt3 and #ClassroomMathOf course the whole point of this is to get people talking! So after you post, look around at other posts with the #prompt3 hashtag and make a guess! Are any of them lies? All of them? Bonus fake points if you start talking with someone you’ve never talked to.
As always, to practice using mathstodon, two challenges. First, find a new hashtag based on one of your interests that people are posting with (for example, #knitting) and “follow it” so it shows up in your timeline. Then share it with the #ClassroomMath community in case others are interested.
Second, many of you have been using the official mastodon app, but (@jreulbach and @samjshah) have tried many apps and we’re loving IceCube for iPhones: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884. So our first suggestion is to check that out!
If you have any ideas for future prompts or ways to build community, please DM @samjshah and @jreulbach! We’d love help keeping the conversations happening!
[Note: If you want to know what the previous prompts were, you can read them here https://samjshah.com/2023/07/04/lets-get-mathstodoning-together/ and you can also search for #prompt1 and #prompt2 to see the replies!]
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This week will be fun and frivolous in the best kind of way, dear peeps who love math and teaching! We’re going to do two things. We’re going to play “Some truths and maybe a lie?” and also you’ll share a photograph from your phone that brings you joy -- and explain why.
In your post:
1. Write down three facts about yourself, but one, two, or all three can be lies!
2. Share your photo and explain why it brings you joy.
3. Tag your post with #prompt3 and #ClassroomMathOf course the whole point of this is to get people talking! So after you post, look around at other posts with the #prompt3 hashtag and make a guess! Are any of them lies? All of them? Bonus fake points if you start talking with someone you’ve never talked to.
As always, to practice using mathstodon, two challenges. First, find a new hashtag based on one of your interests that people are posting with (for example, #knitting) and “follow it” so it shows up in your timeline. Then share it with the #ClassroomMath community in case others are interested.
Second, many of you have been using the official mastodon app, but (@jreulbach and @samjshah) have tried many apps and we’re loving IceCube for iPhones: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884. So our first suggestion is to check that out!
If you have any ideas for future prompts or ways to build community, please DM @samjshah and @jreulbach! We’d love help keeping the conversations happening!
[Note: If you want to know what the previous prompts were, you can read them here https://samjshah.com/2023/07/04/lets-get-mathstodoning-together/ and you can also search for #prompt1 and #prompt2 to see the replies!]
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This week will be fun and frivolous in the best kind of way, dear peeps who love math and teaching! We’re going to do two things. We’re going to play “Some truths and maybe a lie?” and also you’ll share a photograph from your phone that brings you joy -- and explain why.
In your post:
1. Write down three facts about yourself, but one, two, or all three can be lies!
2. Share your photo and explain why it brings you joy.
3. Tag your post with #prompt3 and #ClassroomMathOf course the whole point of this is to get people talking! So after you post, look around at other posts with the #prompt3 hashtag and make a guess! Are any of them lies? All of them? Bonus fake points if you start talking with someone you’ve never talked to.
As always, to practice using mathstodon, two challenges. First, find a new hashtag based on one of your interests that people are posting with (for example, #knitting) and “follow it” so it shows up in your timeline. Then share it with the #ClassroomMath community in case others are interested.
Second, many of you have been using the official mastodon app, but (@jreulbach and @samjshah) have tried many apps and we’re loving IceCube for iPhones: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884. So our first suggestion is to check that out!
If you have any ideas for future prompts or ways to build community, please DM @samjshah and @jreulbach! We’d love help keeping the conversations happening!
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#ClassroomMath #Prompt1 #mtbos #iTeachMath
1) Hello, I am a HS math teacher in SoCal. I've taught everything from Basic Math (back in the day) to precalculus. Looking forward to teaching AP Precalculus in the fall.
2) First apple pie, second donut and third cake
3) Outside of the classroom, I am a soccer mom. With 2 boys playing club, there's very little down time. Between practices, league games and tournaments, we are busy all year long. In addition to that, I became the photographer for the two teams. I enjoy capturing the soccer action and recording images of my boys doing what they love.
Thanks @jreulbach and @samjshah for bringing us together.
I would love to pick your brain on #SBG @Mathvice I attempted it last year but I know it could be better.
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One of my favorite "I really should have thought before saying that!" moments--I told a class of 11th graders, "We don't like you for your A-ness". Instead of stopping to investigate the chuckles, I continued, "We don't base our love and support for you on your B-ness."
Context: As an advisor after a bad round of test grades, I was trying to make the point that teachers see students, not their grades getting ability. Not a fan of giving grades at all anymore!
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Hi all! I've been teaching for 17 years-math at first, but now full time computer science, in Texas. I'm equal opportunity on the sweets. When not doing nerdy/teaching things, I enjoy running, cycling, or almost anything outside. Excited for the potential mastodon has for connecting with other teachers! #classroommath #prompt1
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Nothing too crazy but definitely something that sticks with me from my first year of teaching...
S: "Mrs. Eiland, can I tell you something and you won't get mad?"
Me: "Um, I guess so??"
S: "You know who you look like?"
Me: "Oh Lord."
S: "The Statue of Liberty!"
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Nothing too crazy but definitely something that sticks with me from my first year of teaching...
S: "Mrs. Eiland, can I tell you something and you won't get mad?"
Me: "Um, I guess so??"
S: "You know who you look like?"
Me: "Oh Lord."
S: "The Statue of Liberty!"
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Nothing too crazy but definitely something that sticks with me from my first year of teaching...
S: "Mrs. Eiland, can I tell you something and you won't get mad?"
Me: "Um, I guess so??"
S: "You know who you look like?"
Me: "Oh Lord."
S: "The Statue of Liberty!"
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First-year teaching shenanigans: My still-favorite student evaluation of all time is from my first semester teaching at U. Michigan, going on 30 years ago. It started: "What a s***** class" and went on for an entire page about how difficult I made everything (probably true in retrospect), what a terrible person I was, how I didn't teach anything and made the students learn everything on their own, etc, etc. And then the last sentence: "But I learned a lot."
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First-year teaching shenanigans: My still-favorite student evaluation of all time is from my first semester teaching at U. Michigan, going on 30 years ago. It started: "What a s***** class" and went on for an entire page about how difficult I made everything (probably true in retrospect), what a terrible person I was, how I didn't teach anything and made the students learn everything on their own, etc, etc. And then the last sentence: "But I learned a lot."
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First-year teaching shenanigans: My still-favorite student evaluation of all time is from my first semester teaching at U. Michigan, going on 30 years ago. It started: "What a s***** class" and went on for an entire page about how difficult I made everything (probably true in retrospect), what a terrible person I was, how I didn't teach anything and made the students learn everything on their own, etc, etc. And then the last sentence: "But I learned a lot."
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First-year teaching shenanigans: My still-favorite student evaluation of all time is from my first semester teaching at U. Michigan, going on 30 years ago. It started: "What a s***** class" and went on for an entire page about how difficult I made everything (probably true in retrospect), what a terrible person I was, how I didn't teach anything and made the students learn everything on their own, etc, etc. And then the last sentence: "But I learned a lot."
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@jreulbach
#ClassroomMath #Prompt2I was selected to be part of the 1994 TIMSS video study for 8th grade math. I was teaching in a wonderful, public, middle school in Spanish Harlem, NYC named Academy of Environmental Science. I was also in graduate school at Bank St. College and I loved Marilyn Burns' books. I adapted one of the lessons for the video. My implementation was not great and it was not an effective lesson. They gave me a VCR tape of the lesson. Fast forward twenty-some years later, I am now a math teacher educator working with preservice teachers. I had the tape digitized, add it to my LMS and show it in my methods courses so students can see a lesson, hear my reflection, and revise it to make it a high-cognitive demand task. Plus, it allows students to give "the teacher" feedback as we practice "Post-Lesson Discussion" one of our Lesson Study phases. They will teach a "Math for Elementary Teachers" lesson later during the semester using an adapted Lesson Study protocol.
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#ClassroomMath #prompt2 when things happen as a new teacher, you don’t always understand the impact of your action or inaction. This was NOT a story I shared with anyone until I read the book “So You Want to Talk about Race”. And even after reading that book, I didn’t write this blog until after George Floyd’s life was cut short. I share this blog entry with my college students. It’s a start. https://mathteacher24.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-writing-on-desk-apology-for-my.html?m=1
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#ClassroomMath #prompt2 when things happen as a new teacher, you don’t always understand the impact of your action or inaction. This was NOT a story I shared with anyone until I read the book “So You Want to Talk about Race”. And even after reading that book, I didn’t write this blog until after George Floyd’s life was cut short. I share this blog entry with my college students. It’s a start. https://mathteacher24.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-writing-on-desk-apology-for-my.html?m=1
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#ClassroomMath #prompt2 when things happen as a new teacher, you don’t always understand the impact of your action or inaction. This was NOT a story I shared with anyone until I read the book “So You Want to Talk about Race”. And even after reading that book, I didn’t write this blog until after George Floyd’s life was cut short. I share this blog entry with my college students. It’s a start. https://mathteacher24.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-writing-on-desk-apology-for-my.html?m=1
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#ClassroomMath #prompt2 when things happen as a new teacher, you don’t always understand the impact of your action or inaction. This was NOT a story I shared with anyone until I read the book “So You Want to Talk about Race”. And even after reading that book, I didn’t write this blog until after George Floyd’s life was cut short. I share this blog entry with my college students. It’s a start. https://mathteacher24.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-writing-on-desk-apology-for-my.html?m=1
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#ClassroomMath #prompt2 when things happen as a new teacher, you don’t always understand the impact of your action or inaction. This was NOT a story I shared with anyone until I read the book “So You Want to Talk about Race”. And even after reading that book, I didn’t write this blog until after George Floyd’s life was cut short. I share this blog entry with my college students. It’s a start. https://mathteacher24.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-writing-on-desk-apology-for-my.html?m=1
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I have a terrible memory for stories. This past year, I archived one good moment from each day [https://onegoodthingteach.wordpress.com/author/samjshah/] so that I could keep looking for the positive in my life. I’m so glad I did because I have a whole repository of small moments!
Let me wind back, though. I remember something from my first year of teaching, when I knew nothing and had very little support. I was teaching out of a textbook at that point. I also was pulling some crazy late nights trying to prep for classes.
It was probably 8pm one night when I left school to go home. I thought I had brought the teacher’s edition of the textbook home with me. I opened my bag to do a little last bit of work, and *gasp* it wasn't there. I mean, I had been bringing it home with me every day.
I was sure it should have been in my bag. I thought I had lost it. I thought it was a *big deal*. What if a student had stolen it? What if I left it somewhere and it was forever gone? I was so freaked out by the thought that it was possibly gone that although it was past 9pm, I head BACK on the subway to go back to the school building to see if I had left it on my desk. I did that. I really did that.
Looking back, I see how crazy this was. At the time, knowing nothing, I didn’t know the difference between a mountain and a molehill.
It wasn’t there on my desk either.
I finally went home again. I passed out. Another first year failure. The next day, I went back to school. I told colleagues and they laughed at me. It turns out one had borrowed the book from my desk.
I was such an idiot. A neurotic neophyte baby teacher idiot who didn’t know anything.
I'm better now. Still scarred, fifteen years later, but better. :)
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I have a terrible memory for stories. This past year, I archived one good moment from each day [https://onegoodthingteach.wordpress.com/author/samjshah/] so that I could keep looking for the positive in my life. I’m so glad I did because I have a whole repository of small moments!
Let me wind back, though. I remember something from my first year of teaching, when I knew nothing and had very little support. I was teaching out of a textbook at that point. I also was pulling some crazy late nights trying to prep for classes.
It was probably 8pm one night when I left school to go home. I thought I had brought the teacher’s edition of the textbook home with me. I opened my bag to do a little last bit of work, and *gasp* it wasn't there. I mean, I had been bringing it home with me every day.
I was sure it should have been in my bag. I thought I had lost it. I thought it was a *big deal*. What if a student had stolen it? What if I left it somewhere and it was forever gone? I was so freaked out by the thought that it was possibly gone that although it was past 9pm, I head BACK on the subway to go back to the school building to see if I had left it on my desk. I did that. I really did that.
Looking back, I see how crazy this was. At the time, knowing nothing, I didn’t know the difference between a mountain and a molehill.
It wasn’t there on my desk either.
I finally went home again. I passed out. Another first year failure. The next day, I went back to school. I told colleagues and they laughed at me. It turns out one had borrowed the book from my desk.
I was such an idiot. A neurotic neophyte baby teacher idiot who didn’t know anything.
I'm better now. Still scarred, fifteen years later, but better. :)
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I have a terrible memory for stories. This past year, I archived one good moment from each day [https://onegoodthingteach.wordpress.com/author/samjshah/] so that I could keep looking for the positive in my life. I’m so glad I did because I have a whole repository of small moments!
Let me wind back, though. I remember something from my first year of teaching, when I knew nothing and had very little support. I was teaching out of a textbook at that point. I also was pulling some crazy late nights trying to prep for classes.
It was probably 8pm one night when I left school to go home. I thought I had brought the teacher’s edition of the textbook home with me. I opened my bag to do a little last bit of work, and *gasp* it wasn't there. I mean, I had been bringing it home with me every day.
I was sure it should have been in my bag. I thought I had lost it. I thought it was a *big deal*. What if a student had stolen it? What if I left it somewhere and it was forever gone? I was so freaked out by the thought that it was possibly gone that although it was past 9pm, I head BACK on the subway to go back to the school building to see if I had left it on my desk. I did that. I really did that.
Looking back, I see how crazy this was. At the time, knowing nothing, I didn’t know the difference between a mountain and a molehill.
It wasn’t there on my desk either.
I finally went home again. I passed out. Another first year failure. The next day, I went back to school. I told colleagues and they laughed at me. It turns out one had borrowed the book from my desk.
I was such an idiot. A neurotic neophyte baby teacher idiot who didn’t know anything.
I'm better now. Still scarred, fifteen years later, but better. :)
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Here's a fun moment from my teaching history. I typed an email to a parent, telling her how her son was giving me difficulty that day. Our email client back then spell-checked before sending, and offered a "correct all and send" option. I accidentally clicked that button, and the email client autocorrected her name to Mrs. Knockers! I was so embarrassed. I immediately emailed her and CC'd my principal apologizing. Luckily she found it hilarious! 🤦♂️
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Here's a fun moment from my teaching history. I typed an email to a parent, telling her how her son was giving me difficulty that day. Our email client back then spell-checked before sending, and offered a "correct all and send" option. I accidentally clicked that button, and the email client autocorrected her name to Mrs. Knockers! I was so embarrassed. I immediately emailed her and CC'd my principal apologizing. Luckily she found it hilarious! 🤦♂️
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@samjshah #prompt2 #classroommath
1) I teach ASD3 and MiLD classes. Together. MiLD students are extremely sociable, and students diagnosed on the spectrum tend to sit and work by themselves. These traits often make for beautiful moments, as I watched my students comforting each other when they found out one of the boys was going to another school in the middle of the semester. Students prepared cards from construction paper. They hugged, one or two cried. This diverse group of children had become a community of caring young adults. I was very proud of each and every one. -
@samjshah #prompt2 #classroommath
1) I teach ASD3 and MiLD classes. Together. MiLD students are extremely sociable, and students diagnosed on the spectrum tend to sit and work by themselves. These traits often make for beautiful moments, as I watched my students comforting each other when they found out one of the boys was going to another school in the middle of the semester. Students prepared cards from construction paper. They hugged, one or two cried. This diverse group of children had become a community of caring young adults. I was very proud of each and every one. -
Superb! We’re introducing ourselves, we’re getting used to the platform! Wunderbar!
One thing we all have in common in this community, no matter how different we are (including in many of your terrible rankings of desserts from #prompt1), is that we have worked with kids in the classroom teaching math. We all have millions of stories inside of us that are hilarious, heartbreaking, harrowing, hopeful… When you rallied against the administration, when a kid said something wonderfully outrageous, when you accidentally had an answer to a start-of-class question be 69 and you were being observed…
So we ask you to share just one small story from your teaching life -- something you’re comfortable sharing! Something you’d share with friends over dinner after a particularly eventful week. (Remember if you use the mathstodon.xyz site, you can get 1729 characters in a post.)
In your post:
1. Share your SMALL story. No pressure… and remember this is a judgment free zone.
2. Tag your post with #Prompt2 and #ClassroomMath
We also realized that if others are reading your story and want to find the prompt, they might not know how to find the original prompt. So if you can, REPLY to this post so others can see what the prompt is replying to!
Lastly, to practice using mathstodon, here’s the new challenge! In the next few days, go to your LOCAL timeline. That’s posts by EVERYONE on mathstodon.xyz (or whatever “instance” you’re on), not just people you follow. Find someone new to follow AND boost a post of theirs that you find. (Boost is like a re-tweet.) That will help others who follow you see something you find interesting… and maybe they’ll start following that person too.
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Superb! We’re introducing ourselves, we’re getting used to the platform! Wunderbar!
One thing we all have in common in this community, no matter how different we are (including in many of your terrible rankings of desserts from #prompt1), is that we have worked with kids in the classroom teaching math. We all have millions of stories inside of us that are hilarious, heartbreaking, harrowing, hopeful… When you rallied against the administration, when a kid said something wonderfully outrageous, when you accidentally had an answer to a start-of-class question be 69 and you were being observed…
So we ask you to share just one small story from your teaching life -- something you’re comfortable sharing! Something you’d share with friends over dinner after a particularly eventful week. (Remember if you use the mathstodon.xyz site, you can get 1729 characters in a post.)
In your post:
1. Share your SMALL story. No pressure… and remember this is a judgment free zone.
2. Tag your post with #Prompt2 and #ClassroomMath
Lastly, to practice using mathstodon, here’s the new challenge! In the next few days, go to your LOCAL timeline. That’s posts by EVERYONE on mathstodon.xyz (or whatever “instance” you’re on), not just people you follow. Find someone new to follow AND boost a post of theirs that you find. (Boost is like a re-tweet.) That will help others who follow you see something you find interesting… and maybe they’ll start following that person too.
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Superb! We’re introducing ourselves, we’re getting used to the platform! Wunderbar!
One thing we all have in common in this community, no matter how different we are (including in many of your terrible rankings of desserts from #prompt1), is that we have worked with kids in the classroom teaching math. We all have millions of stories inside of us that are hilarious, heartbreaking, harrowing, hopeful… When you rallied against the administration, when a kid said something wonderfully outrageous, when you accidentally had an answer to a start-of-class question be 69 and you were being observed…
So we ask you to share just one small story from your teaching life -- something you’re comfortable sharing! Something you’d share with friends over dinner after a particularly eventful week. (Remember if you use the mathstodon.xyz site, you can get 1729 characters in a post.)
In your post:
1. Share your SMALL story. No pressure… and remember this is a judgment free zone.
2. Tag your post with #Prompt2 and #ClassroomMath
Lastly, to practice using mathstodon, here’s the new challenge! In the next few days, go to your LOCAL timeline. That’s posts by EVERYONE on mathstodon.xyz (or whatever “instance” you’re on), not just people you follow. Find someone new to follow AND boost a post of theirs that you find. (Boost is like a re-tweet.) That will help others who follow you see something you find interesting… and maybe they’ll start following that person too.