Scott Meltzer

@DocHudsonMath Awesome session at #NCTMVirtual. I'd love to learn more about how you educated parents about new grading practices.

Yesterday's DEI training at New Teacher Induction was fantastic. Great job, Lindley and APS facilitators! The young teachers are so much more aware than I was when I started. They give me hope!

The end of a long day with the assessment committee. What an amazing team!

Getting ready to meet with APS's new Math Assessment Committee this week. Can't wait to see these teachers and get our work started!

Spent half an hour helping my son use scissors to discover the formula for the area of a parallelogram. Then he watched the video that was assigned, which justifies the formula with a 10-second animation. Sense-making takes work!

APS is looking for a math coach to join our team. I can't wait to start working with that person! chu.tbe.taleo.net/chu04/ats/care…

Have you noticed how math is saving lives?

Ms. Jeon's 2nd grade mathematicians at Tacony are using arrays to gear up for multiplication.

Ms. Bompadre's 2nd grade mathematicians used lots of different strategies to solve today's application problem.

Ms. Harrington's Kindergarten mathematicians at Lindley model number relationships with physical number bonds.

Mr. Grenon at Lindley led his 7th grade mathematicians in a discussion about student strategies for finding the area of part of a circle. This student work shows understanding of how the part relates to the whole circle.

Mr. Allen's 3rd grade mathematicians at Lindley explored unit fractions by dividing various objects into equal parts. Amazing discussions justifying their partitions!

A great example of how math for social justice can help us all look deeper, and why math is so important for every citizen of a democracy.

For math teachers who grew up in a procedural answer-getting tradition, there is a real challenge in understanding a conceptual approach to learning mathematics. How might we learn to see the "new ways" as something deeper than just another procedure? #MTBoS

Mrs. Ross at Tacony facilitated a discussion about her 3rd graders' attempts to cut a paper into 6 equal pieces. What do you notice? Are these pieces equal? How do you know?

Ms. Cafaro's students noticed & wondered about the famous board game problem. Amazing discussion!

Today I got to watch the Lindley Lions cheer squad compete. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

An amazing day of lesson internalization at Lindley today. Fantastic teachers + fantastic curriculum = math that inspires!

Powerful questioning by Mrs. Troiani today... T: Is there a pattern? S: No because there's no straight line. T: If I bought a 6000-lb truck, could you guess the fuel efficiency? S: Yes. T: Is there a pattern? S: Oh yeah, the heavier the truck, the lower the efficiency!