Teaching to the Beat of a Different Drummer. My place to think about education and connect with like-minded folks. This has been a busy week, but I can finally sit down to write about day 2 of our Math Rocks class. One thing that has kept me busy is reading and responding to all of the blog posts that our group has generated this week.

In doing so my students began to develop spatial sense, vocabulary and the ability to explain and justify their thinking and then were able to visualize and conceptualize more complex mathematical ideas. Twitter And The Newbie After One Year. Over the course of the year we have grown to nearly 900 followers.

Dee, the truly rowdy one, was silenced by Benadryl. She tried to hold a conversation but most of her thoughts were jumbled, and then she dosed off.

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I have started this post many times, so many times that I have multiple versions.

I was recording possible solutions on the board while she was holding court behind me.

Tape Diagrams, Big Feelings and other Predicaments of Teaching.