#prompt-2 — Public Fediverse posts
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I was teaching 7th grade math, and we were discussing the concepts of integers and their opposites.
Students were giving real life examples of numerical opposites, like making $50 and owing $50.
One kid suggested 12 donuts.
Me, surprised: What's the opposite of positive twelve donuts?
Kid, exasperated and clearly questioning my intelligence: Negative twelve donuts!
Me:
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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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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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@samjshah #mathclassroom #Prompt2 A short story I used to take my shoes off while teaching from time to time. Once when I did this a student took my shoes and hid them. Let’s just say I leave my shoes on now!
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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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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.