Rachel Stone

So, your school has bought you a bunch of vertical whiteboards and says you have to use them to teach math. When would it work? Well, let's start with how novices and expert process information, cognitive load theory, and the instructional hierarchy. 1/ thescienceofmath.com/how-teachers-c…

I feel these are three things every teacher and school leader should know: 1. We are more similar than dissimilar in how we learn. 2. This has major implications for designing curriculum, instruction and assessment. 3. Expecting teachers to differentiate their teaching for 30 different kids who all 'learn differently' is one reason the job has been completely unsustainable for so many. (Quote from Stanislas Dehaene's book 'How We Learn')

Happy Sunday! I spent yesterday morning writing a progression of puzzle-y pictarithms for Gr K-7. Concepts build gradually across the grade levels & encourage algebraic thinking & sense-making at every step. Goal is to build strong reasoning & computation skills while having fun!

Happy Friday! Here's a fun Gr 3+ problem for you & your kids. Make sense of each equation, first separately and then together. With practice, it's a fun mental math problem that takes less than a minute. If you've done PD with me, you'll know the answer in about 5 seconds. Enjoy!

Interesting 🤔

About 2K students in England answered the questions below. 91% got the 1st one right. Only 13% got the 2nd one right. Why? If you don't know what a sentence is, observes @daisychristo, you go by length. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/using-innova…

Annotating the learning targets 🎯offers a huge bang for your buck. Watch @ml_shackelford show how she has #SLIFE at grade-level. 👏👏👏

An awesome middle grade novel about 4 different kids’ experience with 9/11!

@5thgradeWilkes @CE_Cougars That looks awesome! What a cool idea!

Students had so much fun playing floor is lava for one of our team builders today! The object of the game was to see how many geo shapes students could save with just 3 cups, 5 popsicle sticks, and 1 index card!

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I hope @olatheschools teachers had a great first day of school! What you do MATTERS! #opsforwardtogether

Check out this new research from @Xin_Lin_! She designed an intervention focused on fraction vocabulary - which helped students improve their knowledge of fraction vocabulary! This was Xin's @utexascoe dissertation project. @MCPER_EDU buff.ly/3OOB4eD

“Reading comprehension is domain-specific.” -Dr. Hugh Catts on @ClassroomWonder podcast @natwexler

@sblackwellslpd Loving this podcast so far 🤩🤓

Comprehension strategy instruction has the greatest impact on Ss learning when they are processed WHILE teaching content. Teaching an isolated lesson on a “target comprehension skill” has minimal, if any, impact on building comp. Great podcast!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Here are some examples of what Depth of Knowledge looks like in kindergarten to second grade. Check out and download my Elementary Math DOK matrix. robertkaplinsky.com/depth-knowledg…

This story features a student that used to attend the school I taught at in KCK ❤️kcur.org/news/2023-05-2…

@caitlinknuth Congrats!

Gonna miss these mugs next year. Moving onward and upward to join our athletes at Olathe South next year 😢🥹

Excellent article on math fluency! Lots of practical ideas as well as what the research says. ⁦@mathmtssolathe⁩ edweek.org/teaching-learn…

@CWilliamsbr My pleasure 😍 I had fun!!

Regardless of how high #preschoolers can rote count, a child’s sense of what those numbers actually mean develops gradually. We call this understanding NUMBER SENSE, and it requires relating numbers to real quantities. More: earlymath.erikson.edu/many-ways-to-s…