Anna McQuillan
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Anna McQuillan
@mcqmath
I share math teaching stories and learn from my students every day. IG: mcqmath 🌾 Treaty 6 Territory and Homeland of the Métis. she/her
Saskatoon, SK 🇨🇦 Katılım Nisan 2011
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My time at @BethlehemStars is over. Next year I’m moving to @HCHSCrusaders.
I’ll miss the students, families, & staff I’ve made connections with over the past several years; thank you all for your kindness.❤️ Hope we can keep in touch because I want to hear all your updates!😉
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Teachers are continually being asked to support students with less. Recently, @GSCSNews shared this infographic.
Will @SaskParty ever realize that an investment in education is an investment in our province? Constant cuts hurt our province. But most importantly, cuts hurt kids.
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Why haven’t I been posting lately? My classes are larger this term, with greater needs, and I can’t do it all. It’s demoralizing.
I want to be able to share the mathematical joy I see in my students, but frankly, it’s just another thing on my plate, on top of the high demands.
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Here is this year’s Desmos art 😍 Check out the animation that one student made with colour gradients! 😍😍
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A lovely family gifted me this mug last year and it happens to have the perfect angle for the “lip”, but unfortunately I’m drinking NeoCitran out of it. The illness wheel in our family has spun back around to me. 🤧😷
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@SaskTeachersFed I have so many amazing colleagues across this province, but special shout out to Lynette Bohmann at @BethlehemStars who has always been a strong advocate for all students!
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@an_smiiith I did it today with Gr 12 foundations. I set norms in Gr 11 pre-calc with a series of #wodb moving from non-curricular to factoring #wodb review. And in Gr 9, we did some #wodb and open middles today.
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One of my favourite tasks to start setting norms in a new semester: four 4s!
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Final assessments are marked, so naturally I’m procrastinating doing report card comments by washing all my mini-whiteboards 😆😆
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Super thrilled to have been offered a full-time high school mathematics position until the end of February!!!
My first time being paid to do this teaching thing that I love. I am an excited bundle of nerves.
My Twitter bio will have to be changed in T-minus 5 days 😁
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@carterorieux Good luck in your first week. I’m looking forward to reading about your experiences (and learning from you)!
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My first day of teaching begins on Tuesday. Here is a short blog post about my plans for the week.
carterorieux.wordpress.com/2023/01/28/my-…
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Yesterday during a class break I heard an Alg II Honors student making comments about how "stupid" she is. (This is a S who aces almost every assessment.) I'd heard her say similar things offhandedly in the past, but I decided I needed to address it directly. 1/6 #iteachmath
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Thanks for sharing the Calc activities all term Jamie. When I try some next term I’ll report back.
Re collab note: what tech access do your students have? When did this happen — class, home? Using their phones or tech provided by the school? Some formatting is quite involved!
Jamie Mitchell@realJ_Mitchell
It's the end of semester one. I've been tweeting about the different #ThinkingClassroom activities we did in Calculus and Vectors. One thing I didn't mention was how I encouraged meaningful notes. Interested in what we did?
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Aww, Alex! File that one away in the memory box. 🥹 Also, I’m sure this student articulated what many of the others are thinking!
Alex Overwijk@AlexOverwijk
“You actually cared to teach us the theoretical cognition behind the mathematical content, in a way that was accessible to students who weren’t necessarily inclined towards STEM. I really appreciate that.” Someone cutting onions-must be my old age!
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Yesterday I received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal. I feel honoured to have been included amongst the many deserving recipients. 😊
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Today, our last day before finals, I did a course eval in one class: 20 Ss felt there was good balance of #vnps vs indiv work time, 5 want ⬆️ indiv time, and 3 ⬆️ #vnps.
I work hard to improve my #ThinkingClassroom each term so it’s rewarding when student feedback reflects that.
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@NatBanting All groups got this #menumath in class time. That quote was 35 min in when a group started getting nervous I would cut them off.
For the record, I didn’t, they finished it, proved it, and we even had time for other ques.
I may need to use Legacy Soln in Calc next term!
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ANNA!!!!
This is so fun!
I wonder if you could set up a “Legacy Solution” sort of thing where they could work on it in class as long as possible but always refine and post new solutions if they are able to shave off objects?
Anna McQuillan@mcqmath
Student #MenuMath quotes: “Can we have the whole class for this because I really want to figure it out.” “Wait! We’re trying to figure it out in three.” “Can we do this tomorrow? It was really fun.” Who says students aren’t intrinsically motivated to do math? #ThinkingClassroom
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