@pambrett.bsky.socialChris Ippolito builds his classroom on low floors, wide walls, high ceilings. Low cost to start, no ceiling on where a student can go. His last project handed students a pile of requirements and no instructions for fitting them together.
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#BlueGlassesMath
@pambrett.bsky.socialNew episode drops Wednesday, October 7. My guest is Chris Ippolito, who teaches an AI elective in Singapore and asked me a question that's been sitting with me all week: how much math is actually enough for a kid headed into a world we can't picture yet?
@pambrett.bsky.socialWhen he wrote a book about making first chair in band, he didn't realize he was describing automaticity, until it showed up again in his students' math practice. #BlueGlassesMath #MathChat
@pambrett.bsky.socialNew episode. Chris Roberts kept getting blank stares teaching algebra, students couldn't factor 4x minus 28 because they'd never built automatic recall of their multiplication facts. Here's what he built to fix it. #BlueGlassesMath #MathChat #MathematicsEducation
@pambrett.bsky.socialOn September 30, I'm talking with Chris Roberts, who built a free browser-based math fact game after watching tenth graders hit a wall factoring algebra. What Times What has leaderboards, voice recognition, and zero cost. Save the date. #BlueGlassesMath #MathChat #EdTech whattimeswhat.com
@pambrett.bsky.socialICYMI: Cheryl Fricchione on integrity over fidelity. Know your standards, know the big idea, then stay responsive to the kids in front of you. We are not actors. Nobody handed the kids a script. Listen: shorturl.at/Tx2gd Watch: youtu.be/JUO9U_2xhmc #BlueGlassesMath #MathEducation
@pambrett.bsky.socialNew episode is live. Cheryl Fricchione on why she keeps going back to NCTM year after year. Her words: my soul gets fed. Teachers deserve professional learning that feels like that. Listen: shorturl.at/Tx2gd Watch: youtu.be/JUO9U_2xhmc #BlueGlassesMath #ProfessionalLearning
@pambrett.bsky.socialNew episode drops September 23. My guest is Cheryl Fricchione, and she says a great math conference feels like Broadway. Her line: “if I could sing and dance, I'd be in Rent, but I can't, so I give PD.” #BlueGlassesMath #TeacherPD #MathChat
@pambrett.bsky.socialICYMI: Dwight Williams on the students who ran every step correctly and could not say why it worked, and the students whose unexpected strategy was the more sophisticated one.
Listen: shorturl.at/ceEDH
Watch: youtu.be/Q3docoZCVaU
@pambrett.bsky.socialSpeed will come from understanding. Dwight Williams on how we can shift perspectives on fluency.
New episode is live. Listen: shorturl.at/ceEDH
Watch: youtu.be/Q3docoZCVaU
@pambrett.bsky.socialWhat do kids do when they are bored?
Dwight Williams spent his childhood staring at license plates out a car window, pulling patterns out of the numbers.
Just because he was bored.
New episode of Blue Glasses Math drops September 16. #BlueGlassesMath #MathEducation
@pambrett.bsky.socialICYMI: "Tenacious and relentless pursuit of excellence" is what keeps Vince Galea hopeful in school leadership, even on the hard days. Listen: shorturl.at/AEML5
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