A8: Letting kids pick the numbers they want to work with, after discussing the structure of the story, gives them all a chance to pick their level of "challenge" - after all, if you know the structure, you're now just focused on calculation. And then you can try some "harder" numbers! #ElemMathChat

A6: Reduces calculation compulsion! How to help students focus on story/problem structure. How to launch a math-y conversation with the students' ideas, not what the teacher says is important. #ElemMathChat

A5: N: baked goods, lots of different things, shaker of powder (W: confectioner's sugar?), seems like sweet & savory. W: what's the confectioner's sugar for? baking potluck? more sweet or more savory? Is near part of table savory and far part sweet? #ElemMathChat

A4: It's really key to help students focus on the structure of the story, and NOT resort to calculation compulsion. Removing the numbers is one way. Another is to leave them, but focus conversation/#NoticeWonder on "tell me something about the story." #ElemMathChat

A4: We could remove the numbers. "Grae 3 raised some money. Grade 4 raised less money. Together they raised some money. #NoticeWonder about the story." #ElemMathChat

A3: Oh, gosh....big one would be paying attention to the story and not just doing rando things with the numbers. Overcoming "calculation compulsion", as it were. #ElemMathChat

A2: My instinct is to subtract 68 from 437, then add the result to 437, so I'd know what the 4th graders raised. But you could also just add 437 to itself, then subtract 68 from the total, since nobody actually asked how much the 4th graders raised. #ElemMathChat

A1: So many ways to answer this. One is that people (students, adults, everyone) should feel like they can engage in things mathematically and not rely on other people to "explain" things to them and, consequently, have power over them. #ElemMathChat

Hi! I'm Annie, joining from suburban Philly. And yes, I'll be helping @mnmmath.bsky.social out this summer on her project - it's going to be wicked fun! #ElemMathChat

A7: Does your pattern have reflection symmetry across a vertical plane? #ElemMathChat

A7: Trying to think about how best to ask whether it has multiple layers horizontally - because nothing is 2D here, but some are just one "layer" (like first and last in third row). #ElemMathChat

A6: how many hexagons? Are there an equal number of white and blue hexagons? Why did my brain say "Space Invaders!" Is there a pattern that generates this? #ElemMathChat

A4: I know Ts who use the strategy of "Okay, you all have to ask me three questions." So that becomes a norm. #ElemMathChat

A2: Oh, boy, that word "curious" is doing so much work! That's why the #NoticeWonder routine includes "wonder" - that can encompass things you are curious about, not just things you don't know. That can really open it up for kids (and adults). #ElemMathChat

Hey #ElemMathChat! Annie joining from suburban Philadelphia. I am a math education consultant and author. And I really like Tile Farm!

Just shared @chrissynewell.bsky.social's 2017 Ignite talk in a @cmcmath.bsky.social webinar by @mark4math.bsky.social, saying you should watch it to learn what her very young son called a grilled cheese sandwich. I watched again and BOOM! Whole thing is awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3y...

Precision Over Perfection: Christine Newell

YouTube video by The Math Forum at NCTM

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A2 also: I like hosting math learning experiences for teachers, too. My last two NCTM Annual workshops were about exploring dynamic shapes and building towards the Grades 3-5 geometry standards about hierarchical relationships between shapes. #ElemMathChat

A2: I like opportunities to do and think about math that isn't "hard" but isn't familiar to me. We had a math teacher circle in Philly for a while and it was sometimes fun like that (sometimes it was math I'd already thought about a lot). #ElemMathChat

Hi #ElemMathChat! Late arriving, since I'm also late watching the women's hockey gold medal game (no spoilers, please!) and got distracted. I'm mostly a consultant and presenter these days. Oh, and I'm in suburban Philly.

Was lifting in the college weight room today wearing my @desmos.com tee. Varsity baseball player #1: “I like your shirt! I didn’t know Desmos had merch.” Varsity baseball player #2, quickly turning to face us: “WHAT??? Desmos has merch???” Looks like store is closed. Any extra shirts around?

Football season is over and spring training doesn’t count. Come hang with us Sunday afternoon!

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Is this equation true or false? How do you know? Can you justify it WITHOUT calculating either side? The Math Routine Collaborative meets TOMORROW, 2/15! Register at strongermath.com/mrc @alisonmellomath.bsky.social @mathillustrated.bsky.social @mfannie.bsky.social and I will be there! Will you?

A8: More students' ideas would be taken up. I think folks are getting better at ELICITING students' ideas, and not quite as good at then LEVERAGING those ideas (because it's hard!). #ElemMathChat

A7: So important! Even asking for answers instead of ideas, especially when you know some of your kids don't know the answer (yet), tells kids they don't get to participate right now. Sticking to ideas invites more kids to keep participating. (And answers are just one sort of ideas.) #ElemMathChat

A6: Quietly rejoice! Debate how much time I can commit to their (possibly mathematically awesome) thinking. I don't have my own classroom, and it's for sure an art to decide what you can commit to their and whether it will pay off in the long run. #ElemMathChat

A5: Focusing on ideas and decisions (and reasoning behind those decisions) increases cognitive demand, and gets more ideas out there - others might recognize their thinking in the words of others, or get some ideas about different ways to think about a situation. #ElemMathChat

A4: Lots of focusing on their ideas, rather than their answers. Asking others if they think they used reasoning that was similar to the person who just talked. Giving them jobs so that they are active listeners when others are sharing. #ElemMathChat

A3: Oh, gosh, I feel like I did that already - I'm consistent, anyway! "How did you decide what to do first?" or "Tell me more about [that part]". Really focusing on them and their thinking, and asking questions I don't know the answer to. #ElemMathChat

Hi #ElemMathChat! A1: I'd say, "ooh! tell me more!", but I say that almost all the time. Could say, "How did you decide what to do first?"

A4: They're sort of like routines - help students understand them well enough so that they know when else they might help. Like a number line - kids find LOTS of uses for them once they understand them. #ElemMathChat

A3: So powerful for kids to become facile with all these and know when/how they might be powerful. It's a version of SMP 5, "Use appropriate tools strategically". #ElemMathChat