We used to do the #tapediagramtuesdays in our office to practice! We stopped but should start again! #elemmathchat
@cfless.bsky.socialCourtney Flessner
@cfless.bsky.social
Director at Keep Indiana Learning, enthusiastic math educator, and working to help instructional leaders create schools where teachers embrace teaching math ambitiously. Host of the Math and Other Things podcast. Be grateful and do good work.
@cfless.bsky.social@cfless.bsky.socialCouldn’t help but to post a behind the scenes of this month’s #elemmathchat with @ryanflessner.bsky.social because when else will that be possible?
@cfless.bsky.socialYES! oh how I love those moments for teachers and kids! #elemmathchat
@cfless.bsky.socialYes! Just today I was working with elementary teachers doing work like this. Jaws were literally dropping. It’s such a shame how many people in our world don’t know how you can work with numbers to help computing them make more sense and be more efficient. #elemmathchat
@cfless.bsky.socialIt’s literally amazing what you can do with the simplest moves and flexibility with numbers. I’m still working on training myself to think this way at so many things. #elemmathchat
@cfless.bsky.socialI mean it was firm criteria. That and loving baseball.
@cfless.bsky.socialYes! I love pointing out favorite numbers in different places. For example, my favorite number is 8. For years and years. And then one day I realized I had 8 letters in my name, my last name, and my maiden name and I had literally never made that connection! 8 was meant to be my fave number maybe?🤷🏼♀️
@cfless.bsky.socialAfter “taking apart numbers and putting them back together” I would add “so you can use them flexibly.” I think many teachers think if they teach students how to take numbers apart and put them back they have number sense. Isolating number sense ideas is a common issue I see. #elemmathchat
@cfless.bsky.socialI’m Courtney Flessner. I am the Director of Keep Indiana Learning in Indianapolis, IN. #elemmathchat