Here is my newest blog post for Seidlitz Education.
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At the 2024 NCTM Virtual Conference I had the pleasure to view on-demand sessions that gave me novel approaches to presenting and teaching. Skip Tyler (@SkipTylerMath) led a session titled "Using Reasoning Routines to Increase Student Discourse and Build Math Community. What he did was so simple in execution but so effective to his purpose.
Skip would present the audience with a set of images (no words or numbers) and prompt a question. The amount of images and the questions he prompted were foundations for building a variety of conversation skills. For example, he would post two images side-by-side and ask participants to compare/contrast. The images could be people playing sports, two photos of landscapes, etc. The purpose is to get all people talking and to find a baseline for how to communicate reasoning. Only after conversation skills had been practiced and normalized did he extrapolate and transfer to mathematics discourse around reasoning. I had always scaffolding academic discourse with sentence starters (which is still applicable). But Skip's scaffolding creates a conceptual understanding to expressing reasoning that I had skipped. I will be using his approach in my future sessions. Skip is a math consultant for CTLG Consulting. For more information about his reasoning routines, click here. Hello again! I am pleased to announce I have three upcoming speaking engagements. I hope that if you attend you drop by for a chat. NCTM 2024 Virtual ConferenceWhen: April 10-13 Session Title: Quantitative Literacy: The answer to "There is reading in every subject" NCTE NCTM Joint Conference on Elementary Literacy and MathematicsThis is the inaugural joint conference! Come be a part of history in the making. When: June 17-19 Where: Hyatt Regency New Orleans Session Title: Where Mathematics and Literacy Meet: Combining Pedagogies to Solve Word Problems CAMT 2024I will be a featured speaker!
When: July 17 Where: George R. Brown Convention Center and Hilton Americas Hotel Houston Session Titles: Quantitative Literacy: The Answer to "There is reading in every content" Word Problems Just Don't Happen in Everyday Life Character Analysis vs. Quantitative Analysis |
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AuthorThank you for visiting! My name is Diane. When I was a teacher, I was puzzled with why word problems were so hard for my students. I tried many new approaches to try to crack this mystery and when I left the classroom I had more time to research it. I hope that what I have been able to discover helps you. I will be posting blogs of my failures and successes so be sure to revisit to see what's new. Please feel free to share what you have learned as we build a community of invested professionals together. Archives
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