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Math Ed consultant & K-8 Instruction Coach. Singapore Math Specialist. Former Zearn consultant & EngageNY/Eureka Math Curriculum Writer. Bill Walton enthusiast.

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Bill Davidson

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6 years

1,000+ Sprints that align to the standards - Editable Revisionary Edition - A comprehensive K-8 collection - Available as individual digital files that can be edited, or as hard copy books - Search by standard, concept, keyword, or lesson #mathsprints

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One of the greatest math understandings an emerging middle schooler can possess is that a fraction is also a division problem. Far too many fifth graders struggle with this connection.

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A girl rolls a dice and it triggers her to solve the equation 3 + __ = 9. She writes down 4 & no one is present to provide corrective feedback. All the while, the classroom possesses all the optics & trappings of joyous learning & progressive education through stations

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Teacher: "Our mornings are very chill." I nodded my head and said nothing but was left thinking. 'Why? It's the most optimal time for students to be doing the most challenging work of the day.'

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My son's kindergarten teacher assigns sight words for practice. I know that some educators don't believe in sight words. What is the argument for & against this practice?

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I wish that K & 1st graders were encouraged to practice addition & subtraction w/in 10 facts w/ the same urgency that 3rd graders are encouraged to practice their times tables.

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Tutoring since Covid hit has helped my math teaching philosophies evolve. I've always advocated for practicing basic skills, but looking back I think I started giving in to pushback I received from teachers, administrators, & "researchers."

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their times tables in 3rd grade have sailed through fraction & decimal concepts & are more than ready to take on the challenges of algebra. Those who didn't have gradually become more frustrated with the subject & don't seem to be prepared for the rigors of middle school math.

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Observed classes at a school yesterday. EVERY class had frontal seating. EVERY lesson was explicitly taught. EVERY teacher taught with controlled urgency. LUCKY, LUCKY students & parents! @MrZachG you would've loved it!

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Actively tutoring K-5 students over the past 4 years has helped crystalize this understanding: There is WAY too much passivity towards mastering arithmetic in the early grades. The cumulative nature of math demands ease & comfort with the following skills & ...

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Enter any Elem school staff room & you’ll likely hear Ts mention Ss who don’t pay attention & follow directions well. Ask them if their S behavior is related to their seating arrangement & you’ll likely get a dismissive answer or an admission that it never crossed their minds.

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For too long, I said "Automaticity of times tables is not necessary, so long as students can arrive at answers without expending too much mental energy." This was a mistake. There are a number of 5th & 6th graders who I've been working with for 4 years. Those who automatized

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@teachbk I believe that immediate corrective feedback is crucial in learning anything. Otherwise, we internalize misconceptions.

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I recently worked with an advanced 4th grader who attends a private school that prides itself on 21st century learning. When faced with the problem 27 x 17, the fourth grader had no efficient method to solve. 27 x 10 + (20 x 7) + 7 x 7...it took them over 3 minutes to solve.

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@larryhinkley6 @Gladwell Philanthropy has NOT closed the gap. @larryhinkley6 and @Gladwell

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A high-stakes, well-planned, directly-instructed math lesson requires deep concentration, and missing any part of it harms student outcomes Interested in knowing - how many teachers allow their students to use the bathroom during lessons?

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Calendar math is wildly popular in lower elementary grades and uses up 10-15 minutes of a 45-minute math block. I'm not against calendar math, but I don't think it warrants the percentage of math instructional time that it often occupies.

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Finished this outstanding book last night. I only wish that @DTWillingham had written it 28 years ago when I was about to enter college.

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We do all students a disservice when we permit disruptive &/or violent behavior in the name of compassion.

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Aiming to strengthen memory might be the most over-looked aspect of elem education. Building memory doesn't need to be painful for children. Sadly, memorization is frequently stigmatized as "mass recitation" &/or "Drill & kill." The thoughtful practitioner knows differently.

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If it was true that facts are unimportant & you can 'just google' anything, then people would have googled the science & know that knowledge encoded in long term memory is the basis of critical thinking. In other words they would have just googled the fact that they were wrong.

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@robyn_pinilla Not questioning anyone’s right to use their sock &/or personal days nor am I judging the teacher. They may have very good reasons to be out. I just want my child in a stable environment and to be educated and I know that both are often compromised when his teacher is absent.

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Years ago, I visited a private school. In one classroom, there were 3 adults for 20 students. The class was loud, inattentive, & collectively confused by the lesson. I was dumbfounded that parents were willing to pay $30k+ to send their kids there.

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Math instructional idiosyncrasies within a school's same grade might seem trivial, but the cumulative effects of receiving instruction in different ways exponentially increases the challenges for teaching with each passing year.

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In most elementary classes I visit, there is an abundance of time spent having students collaborate in small groups, often in stations. Seems crazy to think that 2-3 minutes of this time couldn't be spent having students practice retrieving math facts with partners.

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I work w/ 8 4th - 6th graders from the same school. Each has > average intelligence, attends over 95% of school days, is raised in a home w/ 2 educated parents & puts forth > average effort. Each also struggles with single-digit computational facts... ...Tuition is ≈ $50k

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Eureka Math 2.0 is incredible! It's taken all the greatness from the first edition & corrected the challenges to implementing it. - Lessons are shorter - Problem Sets are better & easier to use - The new activities are engaging & meaningful! @eureka_math @amber_reid1 @marielib08

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I recently heard a special ed teacher say: "All of us have different brains & learn differently."

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”An inquiry-based approach doesn’t work…You can’t wonder and inquire about things you don’t know.” - Kimberly Lockhart discusses the overlap of teaching reading & mathematics. @MmeLockhartLDSB

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Episode 120: Kimberly Lockhart, The Science of Reading

@MmeLockhartLDSB --- https://dystinct.org/expert/kimberly-lockhart/ --- www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast

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@MrZachG I'm angry at that administrator.

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Instructors of anything - academics, sports, music, art, etc. - should be conscious of the Yerkes-Dodson Curve.

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Her reply: "I don't like doing it that way because it's too easy. I like breaking it up." This reinforced my belief that it's ridiculous for students to not be taught the standard algorithm. Should a child want to calculate efficiently & accurately, it's ludicrous to not arm

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Walk into any American elementary school classroom – public or private, urban, suburban, or rural – and you’re likely to see an archipelago of student groups with no designated ‘front of the room.’

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Episode 112: Ode to Rows

www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast --- Transcript: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56e1a96007eaa0941d037917/t/60a66f40d9e07e2ed6b49e2c/1621520193061/Ode+to+Rows.pdf

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@Super70sSports Mike Devereaux

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Yesterday, I was tutoring a third grader on the long division algorithm (2-digit dividends with 1-digit divisors). I can't imagine trying to do this virtually with 25-30 kids during the pandemic.

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I'm conflicted. I have great respect for @rastokke & @greg_ashman but one of the greatest educators I've ever worked with advocates for Thinking Building Classrooms. I need to read @pgliljedahl 's book & draw my own conclusions.

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Don’t buy into Building Thinking Classrooms in maths, it’s a fad: school leader

Australian schools are at risk of falling for an increasingly popular method of maths teaching that lacks a credible evidence base and is rooted in ineffective discovery learning, a prominent school...

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"Background knowledge is the velcro for new knowledge to stick to." - Kimberly Lockhart @MmeLockhartLDSB

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Episode 120: Kimberly Lockhart, The Science of Reading

@MmeLockhartLDSB --- https://dystinct.org/expert/kimberly-lockhart/ --- www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast

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Recently, I was passing by a classroom & I heard a kindergarten teacher say, "Remember! When you see the word 'More' always add!" I doubt that the teacher gave the statement much thought.

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10 months

More important than an elementary math curriculum is an instructional shift that increases student participation. High percentages of students routinely passing through class never engaging with content, answering questions, etc.

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Recently tutored a student who was posed a problem in which she needed to multiply 2-digits by 2-digits to solve. After struggling through partial product permutations, I posed the question: "Why don't you just stack the numbers (standard algorith )?"

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Thank you, @C_Hendrick ! "It is hard to dispute that having a self-belief in their own capacity for change is a positive attribute for students. Paradoxically, however, that aspiration is not well served by direct interventions that try to instill it.

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Schools love the idea of a growth mindset, but does it work? | Aeon Essays

A generation of schoolchildren is being exhorted to believe in their brain’s elasticity. Does it really help them learn?

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After thinking about this for 16 years, I've concluded: As soon as children learn the meaning of 1 more or 1 less on a number line, they should begin practicing +1 & -1 facts. Armed w/ a strategy to solve, there is no reason to wait on committing facts to memory.

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“If we taught football the way we teach math, we would not be champions.” - Holly Korbey on the need for math practice

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Episode 122: Holly Korbey, Education Journalist

www.teachebilldavidson.com/podcast Episode 58: Specialization in Early Grades Episode 75: Educational Equality Demands Rethinking Early Grade Schooling --- Holly Korbey Twitter: @hkorbey https://ho

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Chapter 3 has given me a lot of insight into why some late elementary students quickly forget new fraction concepts and others do not.

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I recommend that any new or aspiring T read the following: Teach Like a Champion @Doug_Lemov Practice Perfect @Doug_Lemov Teacher Man by Frank McCourt How the Other Half Learns @rpondiscio The Truth About Teaching @greg_ashman

Further Reading & Podcasts — The Davidson Group

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5 months

The mathematics community lost a legend Tuesday morning. You might never have heard of Madge Goldman but if you've been positively impacted by Singapore &/or Eureka Math, she is a big reason why. Several decades ago, the Gabriela & Paul Rosenbaum foundation began supporting math

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“I think the big news here is that it’s not totally different. Our brain’s all learn in relatively the same way.” - Holly Korbey on why the Science of Math is similar to the Science of Reading @HKorbey

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Episode 122: Holly Korbey, Education Journalist

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...far too many students find themselves constantly trying to catch up. - Adding within 10, Kindergarten - Adding & subtracting within 20, 1st grade - Addition & subtraction algorithms, 2nd grade - Times Tables, 3rd grade

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“My gateway drug was Daniel Willingham.” - Amy Pento discussing educators who helped her better understand how learning happens. @amypento

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Episode 121: Amy Pento, Spanish Teacher & Instructional Coach

www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast --- Deco Trees https://www.teacherbilldavidson.com/resource-books/deco-trees

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Practicing equivalent fraction calculations without times tables comfort is exhausting & frustrating. Practicing equivalent fractions with times table automaticity is simple & can even be fun.

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5 years

Highly educated parents can’t necessarily teach Math better than their child's teacher. Their advanced mental models often make it hard to deconstruct concepts. Like the hall-of-fame athlete who struggles as a coach, the great mathematician is often a poor instructor. #iteachmath

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How many instructional days did the child's T burn on conceptual understanding of multi-digit multiplication & flexible thinking, only to exacerbate this S's confusion? In the end, the child needed to be retaught the concept a year after they were supposed to have learned it.

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@MrZachG Perfectly said, Zach! My 5 year-old plays soccer but he practices different than a professional. Your tweet reminds me of 1 of my pet peeve's - school's requiring Ts to refer to Ss as "mathematicians" during class. Not necessarily against it. I just find it a little patronizing.

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I recently presented a 4th grade S with a simple multiplication problem. They proudly said, "No problem" before incorrectly distributing 2-digit numbers using what they remembered from learning the area model. As I retaught the concept, a thought kept running through my mind:

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Arranging students with challenging behavior problems into independently-run learning stations defies logic. I'm trying to decide whether or not replacing "defies logic" with "is the height of madness" is an exaggeration.

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A teacher spends 2 minutes explaining the contents inside a bag (plastic frogs). Few students look at them &/or listen, no learning is advanced, & immediately after distribution the teacher buzzes around the room re-explaining the directions.

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A child is given an independent practice assignment and sits for over 5 minutes doing nothing. She is confused, disinterested, or both. Co-teachers & a learning support specialist are in the room the entire time & nobody is aware.

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This was a great listen! Daisy Christodoulou brilliantly articulates the importance of traditional Math & Literacy instruction in preparing Students for the 21st century. Ep 18. Education myth-busting with Daisy Christodoulou @rastokke @daisychristo

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Ep 18. Education myth-busting with Daisy Christodoulou

Join math professor, Anna Stokke, in conversation with Daisy Christodoulou. Daisy is a teacher, an author and the Director of Education at No More Marking. They begin by discussing the myth that...

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@kav1948mary I observed the mistake that I described. I don’t think it makes much sense for teachers to have students practice calculations without a system for corrective feedback. Answer keys can help with this but a station model makes it challenging to uphold. I

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Far too many teachers underestimate their students' latent capacity to focus, and their own ability to build their students' powers of concentration; and, prematurely surrender to only attempting meaningful explicit instruction via small groups - most commonly through stations.

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Educators are doing themselves a disservice if they don't listen to this. S3E4: Patrice Bain on "The Room Where it Happened" via @MrZachG @PatriceBain1

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S3E4: Patrice Bain on “The Room Where it Happened”

In this episode we’re delving into the inspiring tale of a real-life classroom, aka ‘The Room Where It Happened’. This unique researcher-teacher partnership, which was documented in the book Powerf…

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“The big story about elementary math education is we have the majority of American students are not succeeding in math…we know in general what helps students learn more and we aren’t using it.” - Holly Korbey @HKorbey

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Episode 122: Holly Korbey, Education Journalist

www.teachebilldavidson.com/podcast Episode 58: Specialization in Early Grades Episode 75: Educational Equality Demands Rethinking Early Grade Schooling --- Holly Korbey Twitter: @hkorbey https://ho

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Already besieged by work, very few first-year teachers would consider tacking daily journal writing onto their already strenuous workload. Too consumed with the immediacy of the next day & all the preparation it entailed, I would’ve never considered taking on extra work.

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This is the best paragraph I've read in a very long time! “It’s more important to be good ancestors than dutiful descendants. To many people spend their lives being custodians of the past instead of stewards of the future. We worry about making our parents proud when we should

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I walk by a classroom during reading and hear the students getting a lot of repetition practicing letter sounds through choral responses. I walk by the same classroom during Math & only hear the teacher's words, none of which are prompting the students to respond or practice.

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them with this method in conjunction with partial product. @rastokke

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One of the most consistent missed opportunities in elementary math is Kindergarten teachers not immersing their students with numbers & building fluency with single-digit computation.

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@kathyhen_ Can't we push for both?

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“Manipulatives are not computational tools. The whole point of symbolic mathematics is to move to more efficient methods.” @rastokke

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Episode 106: Anna Stokke, Research Mathematician & Podcast Host

www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast --- https://www.annastokke.com/ --- Chalk & Talk Podcast https://www.annastokke.com/podcast

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Tutoring 5th graders has led me to conclude: I don't think expressing a fraction as a division equation & vice versa can be overemphasized in the middle elementary grades. #ElemMathChat

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This was a great, great episode! I don't think I've ever heard a teacher talk this articulately & meaningfully about math instruction & the balance between conceptual & procedural understanding. David Morkunas is sensational! @DaveMorkunas 1 thing that I would like defined:

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1/3 Math teacher David Morkunas @DaveMorkunas is such an inspiration! Check out my latest episode for more great conversation about teaching math effectively!

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Anna Stokke was instrumental in getting times tables and the four basic algorithms back into Manitoba’s curriculum. @rastokke

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Episode 106: Anna Stokke, Research Mathematician & Podcast Host

www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast --- https://www.annastokke.com/ --- Chalk & Talk Podcast https://www.annastokke.com/podcast

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Ch 9 of @greg_ashman 's The Truth About Teaching offers outstanding advice to all teachers. He also mentions educational technology "hype." I always find it discouraging when impoverished schools have interactive whiteboards in every room, but a shortage of books.

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Dr. Zach Groshell discusses the role of fact knowledge in studying history. @MrZachG

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Episode 114: Dr. Zach Groshell, Explicit Instruction

www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast --- @MrZachG --- Zach Groshell does trainings and webinars for schools: https://educationrickshaw.com/request-professional-development You can reach him via his web

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I really enjoyed this episode! The segment on teaching mental math strategies after the standard algorithm has caused me to rethink everything I've been trained in as a teacher and teacher trainer. @rastokke

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Red flags in education research with Ben Solomon (Ep 23) | Chalk &...

Join math professor, Anna Stokke, for a discussion with Dr. Ben Solomon in the final episode of the first season of Chalk & Talk. Ben is a psychology professor and a researcher in math assessment...

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Last week, after tutoring a 3rd grader, I posted my sympathy towards Ts who were required to teach the long division algorithm virtually during the pandemic. I received some sarcastic replies, some of which satired the idea of teaching the LD algorithm at all. I considered all

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Devastating decision! This ripple will be felt for a long time. Anti-school choice advocates don't have a leg to stand on when decisions like this are made. It makes me want to enroll my son in a charter school that values basic skills.

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"Students w/o multiplication tables memorized will be stopped cold when attempting multi-step problems...b/c their working memory is occupied calculating simple math facts" Important to memorize times tables! Great article @mikemalione @savemathnow

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Another great episode! Stephanie simply & beautifully states - in so many words - that there are no shortcuts to getting Ss on grade level in reading. S3E14: Stephanie Stollar on Structured Literacy that is Truly Responsive via @MrZachG @sstollar6

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S3E14: Stephanie Stollar on Structured Literacy that is Truly Responsive

My guest today is literacy expert, Stephanie Stollar. Stephanie is one of my go-to sources for science of reading insights because of her ability to break down technical and complex topics and turn…

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I am tutoring a girl who told me that she needed practice with her times tables. I asked if she ever practiced them in class. "No. He tells us that he expects us to know them by now." I think her T should provide in-class practice or at the very least recommend this website:

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I was recently talking to a teacher whose class was 9% on grade level & felt obligated to do a 3-day PBL project that their administration was pusing for. The teacher felt that less than half of the students on grade level would be able to get something out of the PBL.

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I recently heard a conversation between an educator & a HS student. The HS student said that he wanted to go to college, but he wasn't good at Math. The educator replied: "Not to worry. Everyone's bad at math." The educator wasn't joking.

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Sarah Cottingham & I take a deep-dive into when students should move from concrete to pictorial & pictorial to abstract representations of equivalent fractions. @SCottinghatt

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Episode 126: Sarah Cottingham, Meaningful Learning in Action

www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast --- Twitter: @overpractised --- https://overpractised.wordpress.com/ --- Image referenced at the 13:10 mark: www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast Click on the "Auth

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Just finished listening. Season 3 is off to a great start! S3E1: Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli on Instructional Coaching via @MrZachG @olicav @teacherhead

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S3E1: Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli on Instructional Coaching

Welcome back to Progressively Incorrect. My name is Dr. Zach Groshell, and I have the great pleasure of welcoming Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli onto the podcast for the Season 3 premiere of…

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5 months

@NBACobwebs Am I correct in stating that O'Donnell was investigated & received disciplinary action following this game?

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On Tuesday, August 31 I will be releasing episode 21 of Centering the Pendulum. My guest will be @Doug_Lemov , who will discuss his books Teach Like a Champion & The Coach's Guide to Teaching.

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This is a book all educators would likely find interesting. In ch 3, grant mentions the power experts have in judging whether or not an innovation is great. ⁦⁦ @eureka_math ⁩ is wildly successful becuz it was written by many master teachers.

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"There is considerable evidence that seating Students in rows facing the teacher is preferable to seating them in groups...(Wheldall and Bradd, 2013)" - @greg_ashman , The Truth About Teaching Happy to finally learn that there is research to back this up. #iteachmath

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@rpondiscio @rpondiscio raises an excellent point which far too many educators ignore - The pursuit of conceptual understanding MUST constantly be weighed against class time. The choice to stay on a concept longer is also the choice NOT to teach something else.

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4 years

Just finished The Truth About Teaching by @greg_ashman . Although designed for new Ts, any educator can gain a lot from this book. This is one of the best ed books I've ever read & if I ran a T training program it would be mandatory reading.

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...study it closely and then use the lesson as an opportunity to review place value, estimation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division, and you'll realize the LD algorithm is a beautiful system to practice all of the aforementioned.

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"Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract progressions occur not necessarily in the same lesson, but in some cases years." - Robin Ramos on @eureka_math 's philosophy of CPA instruction. @ScottBaldridge @dhabecker @MissETechie @Room114Bickel @marielib08

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Episode 6: The Pre-K - 5th Grade Engine, Part 1

Eureka's Pre-K through 5th Grade Engine, Robin Ramos, shares her educational journey that culminated in the writing of A Story of Units.

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I don't prefer or recommend learning stations as a math class structure, but if a teacher insists on using it, I always suggest that activity explanations NEVER last longer than 2 minutes.

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@1970Orioles @Oriolesrule185 @PolyesterUnis @Jim22Palmer @EddieMurray_33 @EarlFckinWeaver @oriolesrise @StanTheFan @Super70sSports @BBMunchies70s Circa 1984, I remember visiting my grandparents in Baltimore and watching Gary Roenicke hit a grandslam in the sweepstakes inning, winning someone a million dollars.

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A few weeks ago, I listened to season 2, episode 12 of @MrZachG Progressively Incorrect podcast. His guest was @Miss_Snuffy , founder of Michaela Community School in the UK. During their talk, Ms. Birbalsingh shared her rationale for requiring row seating arrangements.

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Anna Stokke shares her thoughts on why schools in western countries have veered away from traditional methods for teaching math. @rastokke

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Episode 106: Anna Stokke, Research Mathematician & Podcast Host

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"What do you notice?" is a common 'dead' question to begin early elementary math explorations. Although meant to stimulate engagement it often distracts. "What do you notice about x?" is a more pointed question that focuses the student on the topic to be explored.

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@Real_Edu_Leader I don't think it's curriculum. I feel like addressing basic skill fluency is something that schools, teachers, & parents need to value regardless of the curriculum being used.

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3 years

Finished this book last night. Thank you @Doug_Lemov for another great read!

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A major theme of my most recent podcast touches on unprepared first year teachers. If you - or someone you know - would like to discuss ways methods for better preparing first-year teachers, please DM me!

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Episode 115: Your First Year of Teaching

www.teacherbilldavidson.com/podcast --- Unabridged transcript: https://www.teacherbilldavidson.com/essays/your-first-year-of-teaching

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4 years

Just finished reading The Math Gene by ⁦ @profkeithdevlin ⁩ . Great book! I found his climbing a mountain metaphor on pages 264-265 to be especially helpful in understanding why some people do and do not succeed in the subject. #iteachmath

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This excerpt from @Doug_Lemov 's "The Coach's Guide to Teaching" addresses the forgetting curve. It's valuable reading for coaches & Ts, but also any person in any walk of life who are interested in building skills & knowledge.

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