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Laura Staple

@stapeslr

🦞Educating Lobsters blogger 🦞 Mathematics educator and trainee counsellor in mental health

Sydney, New South Wales Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Laura Staple
Laura Staple@stapeslr·
This post resonates so much rn. After a year or so off from education. Stepping back into the classroom - I’m so conscious of the privilege it is to work with young people. Those 💡moments are the best!
George Couros@gcouros

"That kind of community doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when school leaders are intentional about inviting others in, sharing ownership, and building a culture rooted in respect and belonging." Dr. Rachel Edoho-Eket, #ForwardTogether Forever Their Teacher - mailchi.mp/georgecouros/f…

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Cliff Pickover
Cliff Pickover@pickover·
This is a mathematics joke.
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Cliff Pickover@pickover·
Math. A mathematician emerges from a cave, hands you the the slip of paper below, and says "Is it true that a dart thrown at the real number line would never hit a rational number?" What is your response?
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Laura Staple@stapeslr·
@jshmtn For me yeah… I’d do log base root 7 of both sides first. Then you get root(24-root(x))=4 🫶👍
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SKG@sonukg4india·
#Puzzled
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Howie Hua
Howie Hua@howie_hua·
Do you know why a negative divided by a positive equals a negative? If not, find out in 30 seconds.
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Carl Hendrick
Carl Hendrick@C_Hendrick·
As far back as the 1890s William James cautioned against thinking you can apply the principles of psychology straight into the classroom. However, without an understanding of how the brain learns, planning instruction is suboptimal. I think these two positions encapsulate the interstitial point in which we find ourselves.
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Laura Staple
Laura Staple@stapeslr·
Absolutely love this blog post.. I think #1 is so common amongst Maths teachers as so much teaching of Maths used to be mimicking and not thinking! You’re so right that we tend to see all the shiny stuff on social media. Thank you for sharing @robertkaplinsky
Robert Kaplinsky@robertkaplinsky

A big problem in education is that teachers keep their insecurities to themselves for fear of being judged. I wish it wasn't that way. So, I wrote a list of my 10 biggest educator insecurities and hope it'll make it easier to talk about. robertkaplinsky.com/ten-things-im-… #iteachmath

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Teacher2Teacher@teacher2teacher·
T @RBMSCarty uses these sentence stems to kick-start robust classroom discussions! What's one conversation starter you might add to the list?
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Laura Staple
Laura Staple@stapeslr·
Love this - definitely a technique I’m going to start next week thank you @tbmb62997 🫶🫶🫶
Linda Bortnick, EdD@lbmb62997

@NCTM Start by asking for a definitely wrong answer. Kids love coming up with nonsense answers and it sometimes helps with buy-in to the actual problem. Kids who struggle in math are so used to getting wrong answers sometimes starting with this helps them relax.

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