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bringing that to you as well as,
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month. So that is a big purpose,
just to be able to the to

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gather, network, collaborate, be
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here we are, right here, feel
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each other, which is really one
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today. You can, in a moment,
we'll see where people are from

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and what grade levels you teach.
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Saturday math, and this has
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eight years that we've done
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line. If students have number
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whatever initiative and
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the overall goal that has always
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improving. Number Sense, that is
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put number sense here. There's a
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last couple of months, we've
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math testing secrets that we
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that we're very, very proud of,
but in that testing secrets, we

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say that there are two barriers
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the barriers are students having
a lack of number sense, but also

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a lack of notation. And there
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notations that have scaled
student achievement that we use,

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that are not explicitly stated
in the standards, but are very

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much related to the standards.
Some of you can probably guess

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one of my favorite notations.
Should I have you? Guess I

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should have you. Guess what's
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that relates to a task that is
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understanding numbers and having
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number sense? Natalie, of course
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transplanted here to give us the
exact answer notation of square

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root. We have no idea how
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root is. That's the one I'm
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are other notations that are
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part of what is the difference
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of year math test and almost
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test, most often, is the
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lack of understanding of that
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the gate talking a lot about
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the be all, end all. Well, no,
it's not. If you all know me,

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you know it's not. But we want
our cake, and we want to be able

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to eat it too. So I want kids to
have great, rich, complex,

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accessible math experiences in
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That's what I advocate for. I
empower teachers to create these

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experiences for students,
because I cannot personally

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create these experiences for
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United States, but with your
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goal and mission and vision is
to empower and inspire teachers

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and teach teachers how to create
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math experiences that target all
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students that struggle and
students with disabilities.

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the test scores should show it
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judged on. We're judged on the
test scores. So why not have a

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goal of these kids can, and I
know these kids can, because if

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any of you know me, you know
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students from 27% passing one
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passing. We've taken cohorts
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We've taken cohorts of students
from exhibiting bell curve

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results, meaning bell curve,
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average is 50th really from 40th
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on a true standardized test. Now
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just a minute.

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So. We have for years, even from
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we've used very high rated,
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companies that this is all they
do. And I'm going to give two

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examples of those, the Iowa
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or whatever. Those are true
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they're competitive companies.
They're two different companies.

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But the Iowa and Terra Nova, I
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respect for an immense amount of
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respect I have for the A C T and
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totally different companies, two
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competing interests, whatever.
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both. And I don't have, you
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another. I think we can use both
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the Iowa and Terra Nova used to
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district would pick one of them,
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three years or every other year,
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standardized test. And the
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standardized it was is it is
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if you were in Pennsylvania or
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usually one of those two
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Terra Nova did was, yes, it gave
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not a percent, not a passing.
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it gave students a score based
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if students scored anywhere
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percentile, spot on average,
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which is why. And I'll just give
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Ohio, which is why in reading.
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rimps in reading, their
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even if kids that are not
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school districts were able to
pick and choose what what

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percentile ranking was the
maximum for students that have

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deficits. Too many school
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percentile. The problem is 40 is
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So we're doing a lot of extra
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was happening in schools? What
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of those kids that are like 32nd
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creating these plans for them,
but they have been passing their

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reading on the state test. So
there's this disconnect. The

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reason is, I believe we've gone
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for data. So I just want to
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what data we're using and how
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data has shifted to become much
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years. So Iowa, TerraNova, I the
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be outstanding, spot on for
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bring this up is I'm trying to
show you in cohorts that have

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used the model that we present
in all of our sessions, is we've

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been able to scale exponentially
the achievement of students, not

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just their achievement, but
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when we look at percentile
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Iowa TerraNova, we had a cohort
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certain cohort scored below the
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literally broke the bell curve
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cognitive ability test. So you
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students would get a cognitive
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IQ score, okay, and on that
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spot on average, but really
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and this cognitive ability score
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accurately determine gifted
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students, you know, our 70s kids
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disconnects, and this is what
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this is we have scaled math
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because going back, I'm talking

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about the big overarching
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improving number sense. We know
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improve notation sense, and I
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the things that we've been able
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Saturday math is to empower and
inspire us to go back and when

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we know better, we do better, so
that we can all be equipped to

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scale math achievement in these
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some of that data with you. So
that's one piece. Is the purpose

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of Saturday math, and it really
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dwindles down to these other
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testing season, I want to bring
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this today. I think I've been
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going to jump right into our
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we're going to, well, I mean, I
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derailed. I'm just totally
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any of you have seen some of the
news media about I ready, so I'm

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not going to go into that
deeply, but what I am going to

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say about this is, over the
years, we have states not we

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states have disapproved some of
our testing entities and

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disapproved some of our textbook
companies and disapproved and

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disapproved and disapproved, and
for some of us, things that were

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working very well for us, and
then re approved, created a re

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approval list of some things
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trash. Now I say that and you're
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Let me go back to sort of this
is not necessarily Saturday

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math, but one of the biggest
overarching leads for scaling

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math achievement, and that is
shifting, shifting. And we

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started to make this shift in
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2015 2016 2017 then I think we
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direction. Covid came, and then
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I don't even know what happened
with decision makers like I

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don't know if, if they're
desperate or if I don't even

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know, but what we have been
moving toward ever since minds

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on math started this mission in
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toward is shifting math
instruction to exactly how the

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brain learns and decision makers
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doing this through the science
of reading, which there's a lot

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of merit to the science of
reading. I I'm not a literacy

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expert. I'm not an expert there,
but here's where our downfall is

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going to happen, and this is,
this is my prediction, and this

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is what's going to and this is
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educated on this before it comes
in and and takes over and swoops

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in. The science of math.
Learning is not parallel to the

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science of reading learning.
Reading is a skill that must be

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explicitly taught it is not
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number sense is the exact
opposite, that we are born with

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a certain level of understanding
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intuitive, ingrained inborn. It
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magnitude of numbers, magnitude
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sense can be. Dramatically
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I want to catch us and educate
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come into place, so we as
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enough to ask the right
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current research of how the
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learns certain things. So
notation, notation must be

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explicitly taught. Kids aren't
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square root is. So there,
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parallel to science of reading
number sense is not so when I

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sense, this all falls into a
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actually learns mathematics, and
there are two different types of

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instruction and learning
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conceptual, which is the number
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experience and figure out on
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powerful instructional delivery
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happen. That's what we focus on,
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there are procedural,
algorithmic math ability,

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notation, instructional delivery
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traditional, okay, so we need
both, but these are competing

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interests, because the more
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are in our classrooms, the less
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the more and more and more we
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the notation declines. So what
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find that right teeter totter
balance of being able to improve

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both because they are competing
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different instructional
delivery. Wasn't going to go

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into all that today, but I'm
glad that I did, because now we

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have it all pieced in in one
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saying all that, though, was to
talk about the purpose of

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Saturday math, and it's always
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and that's exactly what we're
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Alright, before I move on,
though, that was, that was a lot

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a lot. Whoo, that was a lot, a
lot. Okay, unmute, if you have

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other thoughts, questions,
comments, etc. And I'll review

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the chat, because I know some of
you have been chatting in the

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chatting.

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Well, I had in the chat a neat
story from an experience with my

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kids this week. Please. Yes, it
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everything, how the brain learns
number, sense and notation were

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an absolute value. And so they
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the day, and they were comparing
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absolute value of negative 24
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positive 24 greater than, less
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around the room and observing,
you know what they're writing.

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was greater. And I knew you know
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But because, you know, I've been
with Jonily for so long, I just

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each kid I touch base with, I
either said something like, Tell

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me about that. Or, how did you
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you know that's true something
to that effect, and they know

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enough that they don't assume
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something like that. I just want
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they all just launch into the
explanation, and every single

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one of them goes, Oh, they're
equal every single kid, every

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time. So I did this across both
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in total, 16 to 20 kids that
had, you know, the wrong answer.

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But when I stopped them and
paused them and didn't say, Oh,

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you're wrong. How would you fix
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Tell me about that, they
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They all self corrected the
answer. And it really got me

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thinking about, like, state
testing in two weeks. I was

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like, you guys, you all knew the
answer. You all knew it. I

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didn't even I didn't say
anything. But how did you know,

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tell me about that? What did you
think about that? And you all

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got the right answer. So my
like, takeaway and message to

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them was like, you know more
math than you think you do, we

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have to slow because we've been
talking a lot about taking your

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time on the test and like, it's
not taking time for the sake of

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taking time. But I was like, I
want you to slow down your

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brain. Have my voice in your
head if you need to prompt

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yourself to say, How do I know?
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Like, take your gut reaction.
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take that gut reaction and
really evaluate the problem, and

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you'll they're they self
corrected. But I'm like, what if

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they did that five times? That's
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five questions where your gut
answer, and then you stop and

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think about it. So I'm like,
That's the brain science. I

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think, like, stop and think
about it. And they know so much,

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but they just have to, so I'm
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head, which is weird, but it was
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Like 16 to 20 kids, literally.
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I'm like, okay, so what a time,
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know, but I have to give a good
background on our friend,

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Natalie, Krista, Amy, Sarah
Neal, that's here Kirk. Where is

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Kirk today? Oh, man, I really
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okay. So I want to share with
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have Lisa, Sarah W we have
Daphne, we have Janet. We have

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so the reason I'm naming these
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happen like especially by coming
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minds on math, a math teacher
mastermind group, which these

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names that I've mentioned are
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or have been a part of it. The
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launches into a math
certification group. So Natalie,

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Krista, Amy, Sarah, are all some
of our certified coaches that

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have been implementing this for
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as many years as others, because
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teacher for one of our certified
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accelerated learning experience
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And the reason that I say all of
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one Saturday math or one math
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implementation. It takes a good
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with this on Saturday maths, on
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events, on certification
programs, on, you know, all of

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these things that we offer. And
the reason I said April 24 mark

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your calendars for April 24 in
the evening. April 24 in the

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evening, we are having our next
webinar. And this next webinar

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is going to outline a bundle
package of all of our programs

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for 2026 2027 so you can get all
of our programs that we're

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launching, that we launch every
year in a bundle at a very

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discounted rate. I'll send you
information on that webinar. The

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registration isn't out yet, but
the reason that I say that is

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it's all about interactions over
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about Natalie and her group is
it's been about interactions

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over time, all year. It's not
just about the February, March

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testing season. If she just
started this mindset and culture

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in February, there is no way her
kids would have been there. But

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this was launched in August,
what we call the first 15 at the

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beginning of the school year, so
that kids by this time of year

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are ready. They're just ready
for this. And I also want to say

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I mentioned a lot of these
names, crystal as well. We had a

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big field trip, a teacher field
trip. I wasn't even going to

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mention this today, but I have
to, because it was just it was

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so powerful, it was so amazing,
it was so enlightening and such

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a an impactful experience for me
that I want to share it today

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and have a few of you share if
you were on the field trip with

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US. So last month in March, we
had a teacher field trip. There

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were nine teachers that traveled
to Central Ohio, to my school

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district on one day and got to
see my Algebra Two and algebra

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one classes. Got to watch me
teach. Then I arranged me

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teaching a class at in fourth
grade and second grade at our

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elementary school. So all nine
people shadowed me all day,

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watched me teach the same exact
task to every class that day.

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And so the people that were
there that day, and I don't want

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to forget anybody. Natalie West,
Christie Ewing, Amy Garrison,

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Christy Flynn, Crystal Davis,
Kirk was there that day. We had

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two other people that were there
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They're not here this morning.
We had another Natalie and

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I know I'm going to forget
somebody. I don't mean to forget

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anybody. It let me know if I'm
forgetting anybody. Anyway, all

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of us observed in the morning at
the high school, and then the

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afternoon the elementary I
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then we had some reflection time
and thought time, and it was in

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March. So I have worked with a
lot of these kids and have

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trained a lot of these kids. So
what you were seeing in a lot of

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these kids are kids that have
had this model all year, but

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came in with some severe
deficits. All of the classes I

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teach are inclusion classes, so
there's IEP students in every

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class that I teach. I don't have
any advanced classes. I don't

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have any advanced so when you
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it's just bad. But what we saw
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wouldn't be able to tell that by
March, and it's really

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spectacular to see. Well, then
the next day, Kirk and I got to

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go to Natalie West school and
watch Miss Natalie, and then we

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got to go to Krista Ewing school
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telling you people right now on
record that Natalie and Krista

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teach the model better than I
do. You guys, mind blowing. So I

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want to give you some
background, especially maybe if

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you're here today for the first
time, you don't know any of us.

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You don't know any of this. I
want to give you some of those

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pieces. But Would anyone like to
share your takeaways from the

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field trip experience with us
now, and I'm go back and look at

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comments so unmute and let us
know what your takeaways were

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from that experience.

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Mine was, can you hear me? Yes.
Crystal, crystal. Okay, so my

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takeaway was and I shared this
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that no matter what grade A
student is in, they can use

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their brains to think past just
solving a problem, and you can

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take the exact same model and
apply it at every level. And I

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thought that was amazing.

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And I'm so glad that you all got
to see that that day. And I

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think that is more powerful than
just seeing it at the high

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school level, or because it's
then you know, what does this

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look like in first grade? What
does this look like in seventh

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grade? And same task, same
instructional delivery model.

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Now I tweak the way that I
interact with kids because of

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the grade level, and you you all
got to see those nuances. But

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crystal, you said it
beautifully, and I don't think

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you can understand it until you
actually see it or hear it. So

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if you have not had a chance to
come and observe any of us, or

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you all have not had a chance
for me to come and teach it in

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your classroom, or the cheapest,
easiest way. If you all have not

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had an opportunity to listen to
my audio files of me teaching

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these things with students, you
need to make that happen,

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because I can tell you all this.
I can I can say all this. I can

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tell you. The people on here can
tell you, but that hits

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different when you actually hear
it done to students. So it was,

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it was just a beautiful
experience those two days. Any

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other takeaways from your
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classrooms?

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Krista, yeah, the one thing that
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the high schoolers, because I
I'm sixth grade, they allowed,

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like the culture that was built
through the methods that are

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being used, they allowed, like
all of these strangers to just

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come up and we were asking them
questions, and It didn't throw

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them off, and they responded to
us, and that's what and it was

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the true of every class that we
went to. We were just kind of

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all fanned out, looked at their
work, asked these kids

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questions, and they didn't know
us from anybody, and they were

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just engaged and willing to
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And that kind of culture is
something that you have to build

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from day one. And it was just
impressive the way that they

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just kind of acclimated to us as
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and that is really unique. And I
wasn't sure that that they were

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going to be able to perform that
way. These are kids that

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struggle. They have high anxiety
for math. They've come with a

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lot of baggage from you. You
know, and I'm not trying to

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blame but from some ineffective
instructional practices, they've

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been jaded, and I don't blame
them. And I want to go back to

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what crystal said. It's about
going past the solving because,

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as I've said in our testing
secrets launch this year. Let me

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take a picture of this so I can
erase it. But going back to

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solving. Solving is not
learning. Solving is not

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learning. And if my emphasis in
my classroom was solving, Krista

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and everybody would not have
been able to experience the math

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and hearing that was happening.
So what is the opposite of

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solving? It is thinking,
reasoning and sense making. This

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is the climate and culture that
is going to scale math

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achievement. It's going to
decrease anxiety, it's going to

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increase confidence, and it's
going to improve test scores. A

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focus on thinking, reasoning and
sense making will always lead to

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solving, but we don't have to
push solving. It will happen

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organically and naturally. And
that's what Krista is talking

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about, that she observed, and I
wasn't sure, like I see it in my

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students every day I didn't in
August, September, October, it

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was like pulling wisdom teeth in
these classes. Awful. I'm like,

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there is no way I'm going to be
able to create this culture with

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high school students that I
mean, look at how many years

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they have not had these type of
experiences. How am I going to

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do this by October, November,
they started to thrive and

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really come out of their shell.
So for even me to see my

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students very vulnerable and
taking risks in front of nine

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adults, math and earring with
them, heck yeah, heck yeah. And

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I keep saying math and earring.
If you don't have the making

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math and ears book, go to
Amazon. Get it today. Making

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math and ears, this is for
teachers and students, improving

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the conceptual understanding of
mathematics for the teacher and

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the student. Many different case
studies in here of students and

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teachers and their journeys and
how they've transformed to

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creating these types of
environments and being in these

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types of environments, in math
classrooms everywhere. So yeah,

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get your book. Go to Amazon, get
your book, making math and ears,

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and it's really going to kind of
lay out the foundation of the

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difference between this
conceptual and procedural. So

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notation goes along with what we
call math ability solving, Okay,

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number sense is this conceptual
thinking, reasoning and sense

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making? Now, I know what you're
all wondering right now is,

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well, shoot, how do we create
this in our classrooms? Saturday

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math gives you pieces of that,
but what you really want to do

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is go through one of our courses
or programs so that you get that

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streamlined effect of what do I
do? First, second, third. But

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I'm not saying don't come to
Saturday math, because you're

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going to get bits and pieces of
everything Saturday, math is

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much more non linear and very
like, you know, interactive,

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moving around. This is the big
question that we have been

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trying to move in this mission
before we talk about the how,

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though, and this is part of the
content I wanted to teach today,

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before we talk about the how, we
really have to talk about the

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when. And this goes back to
textbook companies. Some of

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these new approved, not
improved, but these new approved

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textbook companies, the when and
the structure of the year and

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how the content is delivered.
And when the content is

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delivered is the complete
opposite of how the brain learns

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mathematics. So what are some of
our common instructional fails?

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Some of our common instructional
fails are teaching one thing at

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a time like a textbook is set
up, focusing on solving. That's

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another fail,

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treating all standards equal,
that's another fail, finishing

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everything. We haven't talked
about that yet today, finishing

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everything so answering every
question, solving every problem

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that is a fail. We've got to let
things linger. One of the

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biggest ways that we can improve
math achievement is to let

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things linger. Ask questions and
give problems that we don't

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finalize, because what. In the
brain is the subconscious

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continues to think about that.
There's this cognitive

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dissonance that we've never
really tied the bow on. We

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believe, we really believe, as a
country and as a culture, that

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we have to finish every problem.
And I'm telling you that that is

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one of the worst ways to try to
improve math achievement, we

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have to let some things linger
so that the subconscious brain

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activates and continues to think
reason and sense make without

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the human being even knowing
it's happening. And that is

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probably the greatest fail of
some of our textbook companies.

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So how do we shift some of these
fails into fixes? That is to

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look at the when, and I'm going
to show you this on a document

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that I created. But before we
even do that, before we even

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figure out how to do this, we
have to figure out, okay, when

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what's the structure of the
year, and before we even do

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that, uh Oh, someone's asking a
question about what curriculum.

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Oh no. Oh no. Janet, you're
poking me, aren't you? You're

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getting me fired up. Janet, all
right, before all of that, we

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have to ask ourselves, What the
What is, what is absolutely

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essential, and what is essential
has to be exposed in 15 day

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cycles throughout the year. So
Janet, to answer your question,

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what curriculum would you
recommend that does go with the

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brain research and is approved?
None of them. Now, I'm not

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saying that you can't adopt
things. Okay, I'm not saying

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because every single textbook
resource, every single

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curriculum resource, can be put
in this model, every one of

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them, every single one of them,
but we have to be able to be

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flexible and adapt how we use
our resources. So these are the

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three biggest questions in our
bigger program of delivery, the

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what the essentials, the when?
When do the essentials come up

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throughout the year, and it's in
cycles of 15 days, and then the

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how is in the instructional
delivery process that is going

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to have an impact on not only
student achievement, but

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confidence and and, yeah. I
mean, amplify fantastic. I love

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and hate every curriculum
resource. So I will say amplify

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is is very good. Is very good in
its pieces. I think the one

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thing that amplify, duh. Doesn't
have, but actually it does, but

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it's kind of hidden. Is the what
and the when? I think there's a

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lot of great house in amplify
and, yeah, so I'll just go from

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there. Okay, you all came to
learn something today, though,

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but I'm really glad that I kind
of gave all that foundation,

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because I think all of that's
important to continue to empower

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us to think differently about
math education. Scores across

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the country are dismal. They
keep declining. We've never had

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major improvements as a country,
and we keep trying things that

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are not only not working, but
are working worse than what

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we've done before. Oh boy. Okay.
What a downer. What a downer. I

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don't mean to be a downer. Let
me share my screen, because I'm

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going to Okay.

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So these are the notes that I
created for today that I'm going

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to work off of. And when I
follow up email for you, I'm

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going to send you the PDF
version of these notes so that

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you have these. This is what I
basically just did on the

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whiteboard that was intentional.
But when I talk about the what,

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the essentials, you know, it
comes down to my F words. Love

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me some F words. So many F
words, okay, but the essential

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math concepts that are going to
build both of these number sense

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and notation are factors,
fraction and function. What do I

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mean by that? I don't mean we do
a factors unit, a fraction unit

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and a function unit. So what I
mean by this is these are the

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three key concepts that should
be a part of every 15 day cycle

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we should always be teaching
through factors, through

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fraction, through function. And
what Crystal was talking about

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is. Is seeing this effect at
every grade level. So if you're

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a first grade teacher, Amy
garrison is a first grade

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teacher. Amy is constantly
teaching through factors,

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fraction and function, even
though the word factor doesn't

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necessarily come until fourth
grade in the standards, factors

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are making arrays. So if I have
24 blocks and I make an array, I

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could make an array that is six
tall, four long or eight tall,

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three long. Those numbers are
factors. Kids don't know it, but

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making rectangles is one of our
go to experiences for students

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that not only improve number
sense but math achievement. So

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even as a first grade teacher,
you are teaching through these

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three things. So our job as
teachers is to learn what

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factors, fraction and function
look like at every single grade

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level, and what the progression
is from one grade level to next.

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And what we do at minds on math
is, and let me go ahead and draw

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this in. What we do at minds on
math is we create reference

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tasks. We call them the Dirty
Dozen. There are 12 reference

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tasks that associate with
factors fraction and function.

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So if you're looking for lessons
in your classroom to do, to

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teach through these essential
concepts, we have 12 reference

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00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:39,500
tasks. The 12 reference tasks
are exactly the same for every

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single grade level, exactly the
same. There are some differences

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at kindergarten and at algebra
one, depending, you know, very,

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00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:53,560
very minor differences and
variations. But the reason we

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00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,940
bring everything down into
reference tasks is these are

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grab and go like these are not
theory. They're not they're very

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practical steps to do lessons in
your classrooms. And they are

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not a one and done situation, a
reference task like making

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rectangles in first grade looks
like making a raise with 24

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blocks and then how tall? How
long are those blocks? What that

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00:42:20,972 --> 00:42:24,452
looks like in fourth grade are,
what are all the rectangles I

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00:42:24,452 --> 00:42:27,212
can create? Well, actually go to
third grade. In third grade,

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what that looks like is, what
are all the rectangles I can

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00:42:30,092 --> 00:42:36,692
create with an area of 24 but
different perimeters in fourth

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00:42:36,692 --> 00:42:39,752
grade? What are all the
rectangles I can create with

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00:42:39,752 --> 00:42:45,040
area 24 and the up level
question to that is, what are

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00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,180
the factors of 24 because they
are the length and what they are

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00:42:49,180 --> 00:42:52,300
the dimensions of the rectangles
I can create. See, we're using

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00:42:52,300 --> 00:42:55,300
that same task, and we're
targeting our standards, but

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what we're doing is we're front
loading this progression,

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because as early as first grade,
kids are learning about factors.

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One of our other tasks is a
locker problem. This is an act

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00:43:07,500 --> 00:43:13,080
it out hands on, concrete,
conceptual situation that kids

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00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,860
experience, that even at first
grade, they start to learn the

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00:43:16,860 --> 00:43:19,200
factors of a number. But we
don't call it factors of a

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00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,060
number. We call it which
students touch. Locker, 24, oh,

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00:43:23,060 --> 00:43:25,820
student eight, does, three,
does, four, does, six does.

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Through these reference and
these reference tasks are not

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one and done. So when I talk
about these 15 day cycles, some

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00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:37,520
of these reference tasks come
back every 15 days, and then we

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up level them. So kids are
getting interactions over time.

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00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,340
They're getting more
interactions with the same thing

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00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:50,320
at more grade levels through
these reference tasks, targeting

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factors, fraction and function.

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So that's sort of the framework,
and it answers the what. Now

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there are other pieces in this
what, but it just comes down to

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those three things, factors,
fraction and function. If you

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00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:11,640
study the College Board, College
Board is a c t or not. I totally

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00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:15,000
said that wrong, totally so I'm
ridiculous. Got a c t on the

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00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:19,260
brain. College Board is not a C
T. College Board s, a T. If you

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study that, there was a
published book called math

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00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:28,100
vertical teams. Oh my gosh, way,
way back in the early 2000s I

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00:44:28,100 --> 00:44:32,360
believe in this book that the
College Board published. College

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00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,980
Board is the S, A, T people. In
the book math vertical teams

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00:44:36,980 --> 00:44:39,080
that the College Board
published, they said there are

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three things for students to be
successful in AP Calculus, and

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00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:48,700
it is rate function and
accumulation that very much

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00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:55,060
relates to factors fraction and
function. If you study what

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00:44:55,060 --> 00:44:58,960
algebra, two teachers say that
students need to be successful.

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00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:06,960
They. Say radicals, that's
factors. They say equations,

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00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:11,580
that's function, or systems of
equations that's function. They

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say graphing, which is number,
line, factors and fraction. They

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so everything that we are
reading or studying or hearing

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00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:29,120
about high school to higher ed
comes down to these same things.

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And if you study math tests, A,
C, T, S, A, T, end of course,

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exams, grade level tests at each
state you study the national

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00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:45,940
tests, nape, look at the Tims
report, study GRE, I've been

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00:45:45,940 --> 00:45:50,980
studying as fab, so the the test
that kids have to take, going

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00:45:50,980 --> 00:45:54,400
into the army, going into the
service. So I've learned more

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00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:58,540
about asfab This year, because I
teach high school students, and

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00:45:58,540 --> 00:46:02,400
I have some students that need
to pass the math. And so I've

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been creating these it's all the
same. It's all the same themes.

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It all comes down to the same
things. So no matter what

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00:46:11,220 --> 00:46:14,520
textbook you adopt, no matter
what how the curriculum changes,

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00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,700
no matter how the standards
change, there are certain

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00:46:17,700 --> 00:46:22,220
mathematics that are ingrained
in the foundation that are

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00:46:22,220 --> 00:46:26,240
priceless and timeless, they're
never going to change, and

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00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:30,560
that's what we based all of our
programs off of. So no matter

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00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,040
what comes and goes, no matter
what's approved or disapproved,

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00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,000
these certain essentials are
always going to be there, no

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00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,400
matter what. If everything's
important, nothing's important.

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00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,720
Nothing's important, and we have
defined what is absolutely

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important. Now I'm not today
going to talk about the when I

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00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,880
set it up, to talk about this
today, which is, how do we

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00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:58,300
structure our school year? How
do we separate it, and how do

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00:46:58,300 --> 00:47:02,520
these 15 day cycles occur? I'm
not going to teach on that today

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00:47:02,580 --> 00:47:05,760
unless we have some time at the
end. Because here's what I want

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00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:11,160
to teach on today. I want to
teach on a practical example of

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00:47:11,220 --> 00:47:15,300
everything that I've just talked
about, and that is this

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00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:23,060
equation. This equation. It I
pulled it right off of our state

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00:47:23,060 --> 00:47:26,540
test for algebra one. Pulled it
right off our state test for

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00:47:26,540 --> 00:47:32,420
algebra one. None of my students
last week, when I gave this on a

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practice test, none of my
students got the correct answer.

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And these are my students that
have been ingrained in this

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model all year. So this is
concerning. So what do we do

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00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,040
about it? That's what I want to
answer right now. What do we do

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00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:53,200
about it? Well, I didn't start
these equations early enough

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00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,220
this year. We have another task
called Jesse and Kay. I started

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00:47:57,220 --> 00:48:01,800
Jesse and Kay much earlier in
the year. I did not do enough

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00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,760
fractional pieces for Jesse and
Kay. Now, if you guys don't know

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what I'm talking about for Jesse
and Kay, don't worry about that.

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Just ignore what I just said. If
you know Jesse and Kay, just

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00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:16,860
know that I made the mistake. I
did not do enough fractional

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00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,340
examples or variations of Jesse
and Kay, and I'm seeing that

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00:48:22,340 --> 00:48:28,400
now. So live and learn. So I
want us to look at this

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00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:32,900
equation, whether you know Jesse
and Kay or not, whether you know

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00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:36,320
quick dots or not, whether you
know that counting is essential

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00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,740
or not. It doesn't matter what
you know or don't know about

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00:48:39,740 --> 00:48:46,120
this equation. I want you in the
chat right now to do two things.

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00:48:46,660 --> 00:48:53,680
I want you to type in what grade
levels you connect with, what

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00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:59,380
grade levels you connect with,
and what you see and notice

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00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,880
about this equation. So you're
going to do two things right

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00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,900
now. In the chat, I want you to
type in what grade levels you

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00:49:06,900 --> 00:49:09,960
connect with, so what grade
levels you teach or coach or

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00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,260
whatever, or you know, if you're
a principal or curriculum

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00:49:13,260 --> 00:49:18,960
person, what grade levels you're
in charge of, and what you see

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00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:22,400
and notice about this equation.

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What can you tell me about? Tell
me about this equation, and what

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00:49:35,660 --> 00:49:37,520
do you see and notice?

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00:49:51,808 --> 00:49:53,428
Okay, let me look at the chat
here.

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00:50:01,376 --> 00:50:05,036
Lot of fifth grade teachers.
Hey, I know why you're here.

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00:50:05,396 --> 00:50:09,596
Hey, the fifth grade test
everywhere, the hardest one I'm

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00:50:09,596 --> 00:50:13,976
telling you. You guys know this.
There's reasons why the fifth

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grade test is most difficult for
students, and we have solutions

653
00:50:18,416 --> 00:50:27,740
on how to fix that too. You a
good this is excellent. Oh,

654
00:50:27,740 --> 00:50:32,060
okay, one half and 1/4 Yeah,
there are two x's. There's an X

655
00:50:32,060 --> 00:50:35,960
on each side. We see variables,
fractions, lots of operations,

656
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:40,420
hidden symbols, notes, oh my
gosh. You see why kids struggle

657
00:50:40,420 --> 00:50:43,480
with coefficients. Yeah, you've
got to have the ability to work

658
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:47,020
with fractions. I mean, kids are
going to look at this on the

659
00:50:47,020 --> 00:50:50,200
test and be like, nope, skip
next question. Just because

660
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:57,340
there's a fraction, there are
constants and variables unlike

661
00:50:57,340 --> 00:51:03,720
denominators. Yeah. Amy, really
good point you would, you would

662
00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:08,340
cover up those x's with smiley
face emojis, yep, and just say

663
00:51:08,340 --> 00:51:11,940
the these are the the numbers we
got to try to figure out, Yep,

664
00:51:11,940 --> 00:51:17,880
perfect constants and
coefficients. The, yeah, the mix

665
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:23,300
number, the mix number. That was
weird for me, too. And then I

666
00:51:23,300 --> 00:51:26,120
went back to previous years test
release questions, and I'm like,

667
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,260
there's a few of these with the
mixed number in it. There's a

668
00:51:30,260 --> 00:51:37,640
lot of these in fifth grade. Lot
of these in fifth grade. Yeah,

669
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,840
the x being the X being a
multiplication symbol, and not a

670
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:47,860
bit having no concept that it's
an unknown. Yep, yep. I mean,

671
00:51:47,860 --> 00:51:58,300
there's so much to lose with
this question. Yeah, okay, so my

672
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,940
Okay, let me stop for a moment.
We're going to come back to this

673
00:52:00,940 --> 00:52:04,440
and I'm going to walk us through
instructionally, what we do with

674
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:09,540
this. Instructionally, what we
do with this in algebra one

675
00:52:09,540 --> 00:52:15,240
knowing my test is in a week and
a half. Instructionally, what do

676
00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:20,780
we do with this at third grade?
Because this is like perfect

677
00:52:20,780 --> 00:52:25,460
third grade, not equation
solving, but like third grade

678
00:52:25,460 --> 00:52:29,420
content. I'm going to show you
that in a moment. But go ahead

679
00:52:29,420 --> 00:52:35,120
and unmute and talk to me about
instructionally, how do we deal

680
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:40,720
with how do we improve? How do
we use this example in a

681
00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:46,480
conceptual way to improve number
sense and to help students think

682
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:53,200
reason and sense make and not
solve. You've probably never

683
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:56,320
thought about equations this
way, but unmute and talk to me.

684
00:52:56,620 --> 00:53:01,260
How would you what are your
ideas of using this equation. It

685
00:53:01,260 --> 00:53:05,640
looks very traditional, very
notation ish, how would we use

686
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:11,460
this in a conceptual, contextual
way such that kids are thinking,

687
00:53:11,460 --> 00:53:14,100
reasoning and sense, making and
improving number sense at the

688
00:53:14,100 --> 00:53:18,720
same time? So there's a way to
notationally, procedurally,

689
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:23,540
algorithmically, there's a way
to solve this equation. But if

690
00:53:23,540 --> 00:53:25,880
that's the only thing
instructionally we ever do with

691
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:30,200
this, we're never going to make
major gains. So what would we do

692
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:35,360
instructionally, conceptually,
to teach this? Talk to me.

693
00:53:36,860 --> 00:53:40,660
So the first thing I would just
ask is, and I learned this from

694
00:53:40,660 --> 00:53:43,660
you, Jonily. Is, what do you
notice?

695
00:53:45,220 --> 00:53:53,980
Beautiful? Notice, what can you
tell me? And then this is, this

696
00:53:53,980 --> 00:53:56,980
is what's scary, because they're
going to tell us things that we

697
00:53:56,980 --> 00:54:00,720
weren't expecting, and then we
have to responsive teach on

698
00:54:00,720 --> 00:54:08,220
that. Do you see? So here's what
I want you to think about. When

699
00:54:08,220 --> 00:54:11,520
you use the tell me about what
do you notice? What do you see?

700
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:20,100
Do not have an expectation for
yourself to teach on it. That's

701
00:54:20,100 --> 00:54:24,200
why we want to let things
linger. We want to ask those

702
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:28,580
prompts. Document, even in
writing, on a poster paper, on

703
00:54:28,580 --> 00:54:34,040
the board, document, what kids
are seeing and noticing respond

704
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,640
with that is brilliant, and that
is interesting. I love the way

705
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:42,160
your brain thinks. Ooh, I've not
thought about it that way. We're

706
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:47,860
celebrating the thinking that's
the only responsive teaching

707
00:54:47,860 --> 00:54:54,100
we're doing on the day that we
give it. And then after we do

708
00:54:54,100 --> 00:55:00,420
that for about seven minutes or
so, maybe 10 minutes, we. We

709
00:55:00,420 --> 00:55:03,720
then put that away, we move on
to what our regular lesson is of

710
00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:09,180
the day. Then we have time as a
teacher to create the responsive

711
00:55:09,180 --> 00:55:13,320
lesson based on their responses.
Don't try to do it in the same

712
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,560
lesson or class period. That's
what freaks us out, and that's

713
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:19,140
why some of us are afraid to
implement some of these

714
00:55:19,140 --> 00:55:22,460
strategies. Is we think we have
to then create the responsive

715
00:55:22,460 --> 00:55:27,560
lesson on the spot. We don't let
all that linger. Don't even come

716
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:32,840
back to it the next day. Wait a
week to come back to it. Email

717
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:36,260
me and say, here's a picture of
their responses. What do I do

718
00:55:36,260 --> 00:55:40,220
next? I mean, that's the
interactions I'm talking about

719
00:55:40,220 --> 00:55:43,840
with with this transformation
that we're trying to make

720
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:50,440
instructionally, and then what?
Now and then, what? So what do

721
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:54,880
we do then, when we start to
teach later, how would you teach

722
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:55,420
this?

723
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:04,380
With my third graders, I would
probably ask them, Do you think

724
00:56:04,380 --> 00:56:07,620
it's going to be a whole number?
Do you think it's going to be a

725
00:56:07,620 --> 00:56:12,000
fraction? I would you know, do
you think it's greater than,

726
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:16,020
less than or equal to a certain
number within the equation? Just

727
00:56:16,020 --> 00:56:20,960
to get their kind of general
understanding of things, yeah,

728
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,920
that's really a different way to
do estimation.

729
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:30,320
That's a really great, powerful
twist on estimation. Love it.

730
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:35,360
What else would you do? Yeah,
good. Krista. Krista even brings

731
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:40,040
in a good sentence starter,
question starter, how does how

732
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:44,080
does the right side relate to
the left side? Beautiful

733
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,360
prompting. What else would you
do? You're

734
00:56:55,420 --> 00:56:58,420
probably afraid to say of what,
what you would do. Think I'm

735
00:56:58,660 --> 00:57:02,880
going to judge you or something.
Don't be afraid. Don't be

736
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,700
afraid, guys, I use algebra
tiles,

737
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,300
Janet Lane: interesting stuff
like this, so I've always tried

738
00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:13,680
to encourage my kids to draw it.
We we've been trying the same

739
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,860
problem. And thanks to you, I'm
not, like, totally losing it

740
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:20,420
because I gave a I've been given
a practice OST tip question

741
00:57:20,420 --> 00:57:25,760
today, and like, my test is
Monday, and yesterday they those

742
00:57:25,820 --> 00:57:28,940
one prompt. Two thirds of my
classes got it completely wrong.

743
00:57:28,940 --> 00:57:33,020
And I'm like, Ah. So I took a
deep breath, and I was like, All

744
00:57:33,020 --> 00:57:35,660
right, tell me how you got that
answer. And then, and I'm like,

745
00:57:35,660 --> 00:57:38,660
tell me what you know. And so it
was so interesting, because once

746
00:57:38,660 --> 00:57:42,580
they I said, Tell me about I got
thinking, and I'm like, gosh,

747
00:57:42,580 --> 00:57:46,420
you guys knew this. So, so my
thing is, is we were doing this

748
00:57:46,420 --> 00:57:50,020
like incentive that they they
take the test, and I look at

749
00:57:50,020 --> 00:57:53,620
their answer papers, like with
their work, and if they do it

750
00:57:53,620 --> 00:57:57,760
their way, and then do it my way
with other strategies, then they

751
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,940
get to go to this extra recess.
So that's kind of cool for

752
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:04,980
seventh graders. But the push is
the thinking. So we've been

753
00:58:04,980 --> 00:58:08,520
doing, you know, like you said,
Stop. What do you notice? What

754
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,700
did you wander? Then answer. And
I've been withholding their

755
00:58:11,700 --> 00:58:16,620
calculators to say, Okay, think
about this first. Yeah, now you

756
00:58:16,620 --> 00:58:19,980
can have calculator, because
beautiful. Grab the calculator.

757
00:58:19,980 --> 00:58:23,360
Go. I'm like, You didn't even
think about that, guys. So

758
00:58:23,420 --> 00:58:27,800
that's what I'm trying to like,
you said, sit and think, but I

759
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,380
would have them draw a picture,
and what do they see when they

760
00:58:30,380 --> 00:58:30,980
draw the picture?

761
00:58:31,340 --> 00:58:35,660
Unknown: Beautiful. Janet makes
a good point. That was little

762
00:58:35,660 --> 00:58:40,180
bit of a hidden message in
there. And that is all year, if,

763
00:58:40,180 --> 00:58:43,780
if students experiences every
day in our classrooms is

764
00:58:43,780 --> 00:58:47,980
solving, solving, solving,
solving, solving, solving, we're

765
00:58:47,980 --> 00:58:53,440
training them to not think. See
if we have less emphasis on

766
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:57,760
solving all year. If our
emphasis, if our lessons are

767
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,240
structured every day for
thinking, reasoning and sense

768
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,520
making, and that's what we
prioritize, and that's what we

769
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:06,840
celebrate, then we're going to
change their habit. They're not

770
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,140
going to be able to help it, but
to look at a test question and

771
00:59:10,140 --> 00:59:12,960
think reason and sense make
before they solve. Because

772
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:17,940
that's the culture and climate
every day. And I can tell this,

773
00:59:17,940 --> 00:59:20,540
we have a brand new fourth grade
teacher in our elementary

774
00:59:20,540 --> 00:59:25,160
school, and she is phenomenal.
She came to our June event last

775
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:29,360
year. She's fresh out of
college. She started teaching

776
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:32,000
fourth grade this year. I didn't
get to work with her a lot, but

777
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,160
she came to the June event, and
we have another like

778
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,680
intervention coach at the
elementary that's been

779
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:39,140
supporting her, because I
haven't been able to do that

780
00:59:39,380 --> 00:59:42,280
well, I've been in her room a
few times just in the last

781
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,340
month, Her room was one of the
rooms we went in when we had the

782
00:59:45,340 --> 00:59:50,020
teacher field trip. And I can
tell her kids have been trained

783
00:59:50,020 --> 00:59:53,980
by her really beautifully,
because I see her kids doing,

784
00:59:53,980 --> 00:59:57,640
thinking, reasoning and sense
making. So when I went in just

785
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:00,720
on Thursday this week, because I
went back twice this. Last week,

786
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:05,400
when I went in Thursday, I gave
them a question, and we talked

787
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:09,420
about, pretend this popped up on
your computer, on your test, and

788
01:00:09,660 --> 01:00:13,500
this is fourth graders. What are
you going to do first? And

789
01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:15,960
they're like, we're going to
look at that piece of it. We're

790
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,960
going to ask ourselves, what do
we see? What do we notice? And

791
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:23,120
what do we wonder? Okay, now
whether they do this or not is

792
01:00:23,300 --> 01:00:27,080
one thing, but the fact that
they can at least articulate it

793
01:00:28,100 --> 01:00:33,320
is going to train their brain to
look at mathematics in that way,

794
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:39,260
not as a solving exercise, but
as a thinking exercise. And then

795
01:00:39,260 --> 01:00:41,920
one of the outcomes is we're
going to get a solution

796
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:46,960
eventually, but we've got to
make sense of it first before we

797
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:51,220
try to solve anything. And so
you talk about effective Test

798
01:00:51,220 --> 01:00:56,680
Prep. That's effective test
prep, other thoughts, comments,

799
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:57,580
questions.

800
01:00:58,900 --> 01:01:02,160
I've been doing that this week
with test questions where we

801
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:05,100
haven't, I haven't given them or
worked through an answer on any

802
01:01:05,100 --> 01:01:07,860
of them. It's just, this is,
what comes up, what are you

803
01:01:07,860 --> 01:01:10,260
going to do? How are you going
to attack it? What's important?

804
01:01:10,260 --> 01:01:13,620
What kind of strategy? What does
the model look like? And then if

805
01:01:13,620 --> 01:01:16,320
they decide, I'll give them
candy, if they come to me with

806
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,360
the answer by the end of the
day, because some of them can't

807
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:21,860
help themselves, but we haven't,
you know, solved any problems.

808
01:01:21,860 --> 01:01:24,980
We've just been, like, attacking
them and like, getting to that

809
01:01:24,980 --> 01:01:27,500
understanding part. So, yeah,

810
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:31,100
I know we're just crossing our
fingers at this point, Janet,

811
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,980
I'll be saying a little prayer
for you guys on Monday morning.

812
01:01:33,980 --> 01:01:38,480
Wow, that's, that's like, in two
days. Okay, fantastic. Um, and,

813
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:43,000
yeah, fantastic. Yeah, really
great prompt. How can you start

814
01:01:43,300 --> 01:01:49,840
look the same? Yeah. Okay, so
this is really good, because you

815
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:57,460
guys know me. These are some of
my favorite early grade I don't

816
01:01:57,460 --> 01:02:01,440
want to draw, I want to type.
These are some of my early grade

817
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:07,080
equations that I even give to my
secondary kids. We have

818
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:12,180
something like, let me get
bigger here. We might have

819
01:02:12,180 --> 01:02:16,260
something like, oh, shoot, I'm
going to this is going to be a

820
01:02:16,260 --> 01:02:24,200
bad one. Okay, hold on, let me
think. Let me think. Three plus

821
01:02:24,380 --> 01:02:30,860
eight equals blank plus

822
01:02:36,020 --> 01:02:46,240
five. Okay, okay, so this is
something that I do specifically

823
01:02:46,420 --> 01:02:54,760
at the earlier grades to promote
unknowns equivalents. This is

824
01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,360
more of a thinking, reasoning
and sense making prompt than it

825
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:03,000
is a solving prompt. I know if
kids have been trained to solve

826
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:07,200
or reason, and those are
competing interests. I know if

827
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,440
kids, like in a fourth grade
classroom, have been trained to

828
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:18,120
solve or to reason by giving
this prompt. And if kids put,

829
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:27,440
I'll draw. Now, if kids put what
is that? If kids put 11 here, I

830
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:35,420
know that their instruction has
been highly solving. The

831
01:03:35,420 --> 01:03:40,040
priority is solving. I know that
that they believe that the equal

832
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:44,620
sign is an answer getting
symbol. They do not understand

833
01:03:44,620 --> 01:03:49,720
equivalence and representation
and balance and same as and they

834
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:54,640
don't understand that these are
two different situations, two

835
01:03:54,640 --> 01:04:00,600
different situations that need
to be exactly the same. They

836
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:05,460
don't they don't have any idea.
Same as that's really what

837
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:08,880
equivalence is. So if we want to
promote thinking, reasoning and

838
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:12,900
sense making with equations, we
need to talk more equivalence

839
01:04:13,140 --> 01:04:21,860
and balancing and structure than
we do solving. So this does not

840
01:04:21,860 --> 01:04:26,720
create an equal. This does not
create the same thing on both

841
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:32,540
sides. So one of the things that
I do is I give this equation, do

842
01:04:32,540 --> 01:04:39,080
a tell me about then I give this
one, because this is kind of a

843
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:42,520
precursor to understanding
what's happening in the other

844
01:04:42,940 --> 01:04:49,120
Yeah, very good. Great. Great
comment there, yep, Amy, you

845
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:52,360
good. You good. Did I give you
good takeaway today for your

846
01:04:52,660 --> 01:04:59,800
Yeah? See, see, Amy, good. When
we read that in class, we always

847
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:04,620
say. Three plus eight is the
same as blank plus five. See,

848
01:05:04,620 --> 01:05:09,780
yeah, Amy and Amy teaches first
grade. Yep, Amy's always wants

849
01:05:09,780 --> 01:05:14,820
us to get to those numbers. Now,
let me go back to this. Let me

850
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:22,940
non draw. Let me get okay now,
because I'm in a desperate

851
01:05:22,940 --> 01:05:28,700
attempt to make sure my kids do
know how to solve here's what I

852
01:05:28,700 --> 01:05:32,900
did yesterday, because I'm like
you guys, you know how to do

853
01:05:33,020 --> 01:05:37,340
this. Because if I give them, if
I give my kids equations like

854
01:05:37,340 --> 01:05:41,560
this, they're not putting 11
okay, if I give kids equations

855
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:44,020
just like this with variables on
both sides that don't have

856
01:05:44,020 --> 01:05:49,360
fractions, they can solve and be
accurate 98% of the time. So

857
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,200
this is frustrating, that they
just freak, that they totally

858
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:58,540
freak. So this is what I did
yesterday. I did the traditional

859
01:05:58,540 --> 01:06:00,960
This is algebra one. They're
going to take the algebra one

860
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:04,860
course. And I'm like, what would
you do? Like, if these, if there

861
01:06:04,860 --> 01:06:07,140
weren't fractions, and they're
like, Oh, we would take away

862
01:06:07,140 --> 01:06:09,720
three from both sides. I'm like,
Okay, well, then why can't you

863
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:13,680
do that? They're like, well, we
can. Like, well, then do it.

864
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:16,680
Like, what the freak are you
doing? I think I said that to

865
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:24,020
them. Now this is important.
When we take away three from

866
01:06:24,020 --> 01:06:29,480
both sides, I always say to my
kids, what's the point? What's

867
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,800
the purpose of that? What did we
want to try to do? They're like,

868
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:37,280
well, we wanted to to remove
this three. We wanted to, like,

869
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:41,020
move it to the we wanted to
remove it. How do we remove a

870
01:06:41,020 --> 01:06:48,040
plus three. What goal do we want
to get? To remove it? Well, for

871
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:54,160
a plus three, we want to get to
a zero. This goes back to and

872
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:58,480
I've taught on this numerous
times, the importance of zeros

873
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:02,700
and ones, the importance of
zeros and ones. So if I want to

874
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:08,640
get rid of eliminate a plus
three, I have to make a zero. I

875
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:16,320
have to make a zero. Now if I
have 3x and I want to eliminate

876
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:24,920
a times three, I have to make a
one. So there's a train. There's

877
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:27,620
many trainings that I do, that I
talk about the importance of

878
01:07:27,620 --> 01:07:33,320
zeros and ones in mathematics.
So here, let's say the half

879
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,720
wasn't there, 13 minus 310,

880
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:45,100
and a half. Okay, so what's the
same as what's the same as now?

881
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:50,020
So we've got x over here equals
10 and a half

882
01:07:55,060 --> 01:08:03,060
plus 1/4 X. Here was another
problem I gave my kids last

883
01:08:03,060 --> 01:08:17,280
week. I said y equals x over
four plus seven. Okay. And I

884
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:19,980
said, What's the slope? Now my
kids know that y equals mx plus

885
01:08:19,980 --> 01:08:22,760
b is a linear function degree
one. They know they know it

886
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,880
makes a line. They know that
when x is zero, you have a y

887
01:08:25,880 --> 01:08:28,580
intercept, so it's going to
cross the y axis at seven.

888
01:08:28,580 --> 01:08:32,720
That's the 07 point. But this
trips them up because of the way

889
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:37,700
this is written. The way that
this is written, they want the

890
01:08:37,700 --> 01:08:45,760
slope m to be one because the
coefficient of x looks like it's

891
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:49,660
one, but it's not. So you have
to understand the different

892
01:08:49,660 --> 01:08:57,100
representations that this
actually means this. So because

893
01:08:57,100 --> 01:09:01,560
I had done this problem earlier
in the week, I brought this back

894
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:05,820
and connected it to this. So the
more connections we can make to

895
01:09:05,820 --> 01:09:09,480
other types of problems, the
better associations they're

896
01:09:09,480 --> 01:09:13,260
going to make as well. So now
we're boiled down to this, and

897
01:09:13,260 --> 01:09:18,240
then my kids are like, Oh, well,
we need to get the x's, okay.

898
01:09:18,480 --> 01:09:22,880
Now what they wanted to do here
with the plus 1/4 X, they wanted

899
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:27,320
to multiply by four, which is
great if I wanted to get a one.

900
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:32,000
Now I did the multiplying by
four, and I entertained them

901
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:35,240
with that. And then I said,
okay, then we get 4x and we get

902
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:37,940
this multiplied by four. And
then over here, what do we get?

903
01:09:37,940 --> 01:09:39,920
And they're like, Well, that
went away. No, it didn't,

904
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:44,080
because 1/4 times four is one.
Now I have 1x over here. Now I

905
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:48,280
have 4x here and but it's okay.
We don't have to go backwards.

906
01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:52,240
We can multiply everything by
four, and it's just fine. That's

907
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:59,440
legal, but we could have done
something else that is going to

908
01:09:59,440 --> 01:10:04,680
put our. X's together. Okay, so
if we think of this as our

909
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:07,860
chunk, and we want to remove
this chunk, we have a plus

910
01:10:07,860 --> 01:10:11,040
chunk. Again, we have how do we
get rid of a plus chunk? We

911
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:15,360
minus the chunk. Okay, now I'm
being very traditional here,

912
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:17,640
blah blah, but I want to make
this point, and then I'm going

913
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:21,740
to stop with this traditional
nonsense. Here's the point I

914
01:10:21,740 --> 01:10:26,960
want to make. Now, my kids know
that this is not zero. Many

915
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:31,640
algebra one students think that
this is zero minus a fourth. And

916
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:33,980
I'm like, but how many x's
what's the coefficient? It's not

917
01:10:33,980 --> 01:10:37,640
written. It's one. You actually
have 1x now this goes back to

918
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:41,560
what Janet was talking about,
because if you use algebra

919
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:49,120
tiles, these x terms are green
rectangles. A green rectangle,

920
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:55,240
Algebra tile has a height of x
and a length of one. We call the

921
01:10:55,300 --> 01:11:01,440
area of this. We call the name
of this green rectangle x. So if

922
01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:07,620
I want to represent 3x i would
need this x, and I would need

923
01:11:07,620 --> 01:11:10,260
three of them. Now I could draw
three rectangles, but I teach my

924
01:11:10,260 --> 01:11:13,740
kids to shorthand this. There
are three rectangles. That's

925
01:11:13,740 --> 01:11:22,640
what 3x look like. So over here
I have 1x so I just have one of

926
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:28,880
these here, which shows that you
have the coefficient of one and

927
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:32,180
not zero, because there actually
is one. There is a green

928
01:11:32,180 --> 01:11:36,920
rectangle over here. Oh, I don't
even have a whole green

929
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:41,740
rectangle. I have a fourth. I
didn't draw that very well, but

930
01:11:41,740 --> 01:11:45,820
you get the idea. Okay, so this
is, this is how much I have of

931
01:11:45,820 --> 01:11:49,540
that rectangle, or that paper
strip, or whatever it is that

932
01:11:49,540 --> 01:11:52,660
we're using that gives that
conceptual, concrete,

933
01:11:52,660 --> 01:12:00,900
situational, contextual visual
to this equation. Now I'm going

934
01:12:00,900 --> 01:12:05,640
to go ahead and stop here,
because my kids also were

935
01:12:05,640 --> 01:12:09,120
successful once they know that
was one minus 1/4 is three

936
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,220
fourths. Now I'm not going to go
any further with that

937
01:12:11,220 --> 01:12:19,860
traditional, because here's what
I want to do. Let me I want I

938
01:12:19,860 --> 01:12:25,400
just Oh my gosh. Okay, fine,
I'll do it this way. Okay, let's

939
01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:33,260
go down here and start over.
Okay. Now what my students in

940
01:12:33,260 --> 01:12:36,500
first grade, third grade, fourth
grade, sixth grade, eighth

941
01:12:36,500 --> 01:12:40,460
grade, algebra, what my students
know at every grade level is

942
01:12:41,900 --> 01:12:48,100
equations. Are Jesse and K
money. So this side of the

943
01:12:48,100 --> 01:12:51,280
equation is Jesse's money.

944
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:59,380
And so this side of the equation
says that Jesse starts with $3

945
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:03,120
and I know that that's the
starting number for Jesse,

946
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:07,380
because that's when x is zero.
That's on day zero, when x is

947
01:13:07,440 --> 01:13:13,680
zero. Jesse has $3 that is also
y intercept. The y intercept of

948
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:18,960
Jesse's linear function is
three, because a y intercept

949
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:22,220
happens when x is zero. Now I'm
not telling third graders this,

950
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:30,620
but I'm telling you this because
you can use x as this is, and

951
01:13:30,620 --> 01:13:39,080
you can notate it however you
want. This can be how much money

952
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:44,920
Jesse or Kay gets or loses every
day. And that could just be

953
01:13:45,220 --> 01:13:49,000
your, you know, emoji number,
whatever you want to call it,

954
01:13:49,420 --> 01:13:53,500
the number that doesn't have
that variable or unknown. That's

955
01:13:53,500 --> 01:13:57,280
called a constant, and that's
the starting it's plus three. So

956
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:02,580
Jesse starts with $3, a day. And
then how many of these were

957
01:14:02,580 --> 01:14:12,000
there? There were one. So Jesse
gets $1 she earns $1 every day.

958
01:14:12,660 --> 01:14:16,740
Now you could say that this is
the rate, and talk about rate

959
01:14:16,740 --> 01:14:21,380
speed, 60 miles per hour, but
you don't have to. You can just

960
01:14:21,380 --> 01:14:24,920
say that the way that this is
notated, that means, because

961
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:29,480
there's 1x that Jesse's going to
get $1 a day. So on day zero,

962
01:14:29,480 --> 01:14:35,360
Jesse has $3 day one, Jesse has
$4 day two, Jesse has $5 day

963
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:42,100
three, Jesse has $6 this is the
model and mindset of instruction

964
01:14:42,100 --> 01:14:49,540
in Singapore. What they do in
Singapore is they give typical

965
01:14:49,540 --> 01:14:53,980
algebra one questions to
elementary students, but they

966
01:14:53,980 --> 01:15:00,840
frame it in a context that
allows access for. Graders,

967
01:15:00,900 --> 01:15:06,360
third graders to do an equation
like this, but in a different

968
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:11,100
way that's going to target the
standards at elementary now we

969
01:15:11,100 --> 01:15:14,160
at minds on math. We add a
different level to that. We

970
01:15:14,580 --> 01:15:18,420
reference task it, we
contextualize it as a Jesse and

971
01:15:18,420 --> 01:15:24,320
K problem. So now, if I go over
here, let me do a different

972
01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:28,640
color, and I'll save this and
I'll send you these notes. If

973
01:15:28,820 --> 01:15:36,740
this is Kay's money situation,
what's K starting? Number K

974
01:15:36,740 --> 01:15:43,180
starts with 13 and a half
dollars. Now what we might say

975
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:55,540
is, oh, that is $13.50 if kids
want to do it that way. Okay, so

976
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:59,980
K starts with $13.50 now what I
could do at this point is ask my

977
01:15:59,980 --> 01:16:03,720
students, what math questions
can we create? And so some of

978
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:07,920
those might be, who starts with
more money? Who gets more money?

979
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:11,340
Who loses money? Who this? Who
that? Okay, how much money does

980
01:16:11,340 --> 01:16:15,000
Jesse have on day 100 how much
money does Kay have on day 100

981
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:21,980
so if I line this up, when this
number is zero, when this is

982
01:16:21,980 --> 01:16:26,720
zero, when this is not there,
when the 1/4 whatever, no days

983
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:32,000
have gained any money yet. This
is Day Zero. I start to line up

984
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:39,200
this relationship here. So now
this, this one is is harder. K

985
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:43,660
is harder, I admit So on day
one, we need to know how much

986
01:16:43,660 --> 01:16:49,540
money K has. But how much money
is K gaining or losing every

987
01:16:49,540 --> 01:16:55,300
day? Well, K is gaining money.
So k is gaining money a fourth

988
01:16:55,360 --> 01:17:01,740
of $1 every day, a fourth of $1
every day. Well, how much money

989
01:17:01,740 --> 01:17:05,460
is that every day? Okay, well,
that's a we can leave it in

990
01:17:05,460 --> 01:17:12,300
fraction, or we could say, Kay's
getting 25 cents. Come on. I'm

991
01:17:12,300 --> 01:17:17,400
trying to do this with my just
mouse pad. Come on. Jay Z, make

992
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:18,540
a two. Okay.

993
01:17:22,739 --> 01:17:29,359
Okay. So k is gaining 25 cents a
quarter every day. Now, if you

994
01:17:29,359 --> 01:17:31,999
teach second graders, third
graders, and you're trying to

995
01:17:31,999 --> 01:17:35,959
get them to understand money,
what a better way to do money

996
01:17:36,079 --> 01:17:39,679
than to embed it in a situation
that is very algebraic thinking,

997
01:17:39,679 --> 01:17:47,439
very skip counting. Ish, very
rate infused that is is grounded

998
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:50,919
in unknowns and equivalents,
like look at how many birds

999
01:17:50,919 --> 01:17:53,919
you're killing with one stone.
Not that I advocate for killing

1000
01:17:53,919 --> 01:17:57,579
birds, but I advocate for
efficiency of instruction. I

1001
01:17:57,579 --> 01:18:02,339
advocate for using one example,
one situation to teach lots of

1002
01:18:02,339 --> 01:18:06,299
different standards. And when
crystal said, I saw the impact

1003
01:18:06,359 --> 01:18:09,839
of the same task, the same
thing, no matter what it is

1004
01:18:09,959 --> 01:18:12,599
being done at every grade level,
and being effective and

1005
01:18:12,599 --> 01:18:18,299
powerful, this is what crystal
is talking about. So on day one,

1006
01:18:18,599 --> 01:18:22,999
on day zero, if Kay had $13.50
and we get 25 cents more, then

1007
01:18:22,999 --> 01:18:29,179
we have $13.75 and let me know
if I make a mistake

1008
01:18:29,179 --> 01:18:32,359
mathematically, because I do
that a lot. On day two, how much

1009
01:18:32,359 --> 01:18:37,159
money does K have? Well, we add
another 25 cents, $14 on day

1010
01:18:37,159 --> 01:18:43,179
three, how much money does K
have? $14.25 or I could write 14

1011
01:18:43,179 --> 01:18:46,059
and a fourth. I can go back and
forth on variations of

1012
01:18:46,059 --> 01:18:50,859
representation. Doesn't matter.
Okay. Now, after we're doing

1013
01:18:50,859 --> 01:18:55,419
this together as a class, I'm
going to then ask again, say my

1014
01:18:55,419 --> 01:19:00,219
favorite words, tell me about
what you see. What do you see?

1015
01:19:00,459 --> 01:19:04,619
What do you notice? Make sense
of it again. We're going to

1016
01:19:04,619 --> 01:19:08,219
stop. And we started to, kind of
like do some solving and

1017
01:19:08,219 --> 01:19:11,819
counting. And so every time we
start to move to solving and

1018
01:19:11,819 --> 01:19:15,299
answer getting we, as the
instructor, need to back up and

1019
01:19:15,299 --> 01:19:17,939
say, Wait a minute. How do I
bring it back to thinking,

1020
01:19:17,939 --> 01:19:20,959
reasoning and sense making? So I
get this started, and then I

1021
01:19:20,959 --> 01:19:25,159
say, tell me about what do you
see, what do you notice in the

1022
01:19:25,159 --> 01:19:29,599
chat right now, I want all of
you to type in, what do you see

1023
01:19:29,599 --> 01:19:33,439
and notice about what just
happened. So type that in the

1024
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:37,939
chat. Tell me about this
structure. Tell me about these

1025
01:19:37,939 --> 01:19:42,399
numbers. What do you see and
what do you notice about what

1026
01:19:42,399 --> 01:19:43,599
just happened?

1027
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:51,220
What are your thoughts? Come on
now. Chat it up.

1028
01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:13,840
Oh, nice, both sides are
increasing at the same rate.

1029
01:20:17,260 --> 01:20:20,540
Good, yep.

1030
01:20:29,899 --> 01:20:32,719
Another thing I ask my students
as they're thinking reasoning

1031
01:20:32,719 --> 01:20:37,159
and sense making is, what other
math questions could we ask?

1032
01:20:39,979 --> 01:20:46,119
Nice j is increasing faster than
k, even though K began greater.

1033
01:20:46,119 --> 01:20:51,279
So what does that mean? What
does it all mean? Basil,

1034
01:21:02,939 --> 01:21:08,219
a nice Yep, will Jay end up with
more at some point and when?

1035
01:21:08,219 --> 01:21:10,019
Crystal, yeah, this is amazing.

1036
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:28,280
Oh, yeah, okay, okay. Now here's
where your default instruction

1037
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:33,200
is going to kick in. If you do
this in your classroom, and you

1038
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:38,060
get to this point, your default
because you have habitual,

1039
01:21:38,060 --> 01:21:41,380
traditional instruction, what's
going to happen now is you're

1040
01:21:41,380 --> 01:21:43,780
going to have you're going to
have kids keep extending, and

1041
01:21:43,780 --> 01:21:47,260
you're going to have them answer
these questions. What I'm

1042
01:21:47,260 --> 01:21:53,740
telling you is, don't, when you
get to this point in your

1043
01:21:53,740 --> 01:21:57,400
instruction, in your class,
you're going to be like, Okay,

1044
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:02,280
that was so beautiful today. I'm
so proud of you guys. We

1045
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:05,580
realized a lot of different
things. We're going to put that

1046
01:22:05,580 --> 01:22:10,080
away. And I want you to take out
yesterday's homework that has

1047
01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:12,660
nothing to do with this. Okay, I
want you to go on to your

1048
01:22:12,660 --> 01:22:16,860
regular lesson now that if you
leave here with nothing else

1049
01:22:16,860 --> 01:22:20,360
today, I want you to hear me on
this. You're going to be like,

1050
01:22:20,420 --> 01:22:23,480
Oh, but the kids want to finish.
Well, the kids want to keep

1051
01:22:23,480 --> 01:22:27,320
going. I finally got them
focused and engaged, then cut it

1052
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:27,800
off.

1053
01:22:29,659 --> 01:22:36,079
There are brain reasons for
this. There are cognitive

1054
01:22:36,079 --> 01:22:37,519
reasons for this.

1055
01:22:39,199 --> 01:22:42,579
We are shaping the brain, and we
are shaping the mathematical

1056
01:22:42,579 --> 01:22:47,319
mind. So right now, as soon as
you have the kids in the palm of

1057
01:22:47,319 --> 01:22:50,019
your hands, as soon as you have
them right where you want them,

1058
01:22:50,319 --> 01:22:53,199
you're going to stop and you're
going to be like, Okay, we're

1059
01:22:53,199 --> 01:22:56,139
going to put this away, and
we're going to go on to our

1060
01:22:56,139 --> 01:22:58,779
lesson of the day. Now you're
going to have kids still working

1061
01:22:58,779 --> 01:23:03,119
on it and trying to hide it.
Don't call them out. Just ignore

1062
01:23:03,119 --> 01:23:06,539
it. You're going to have kids
still talking about it. You're

1063
01:23:06,539 --> 01:23:10,679
going to have kids going, Oh,
but I know where they're going

1064
01:23:10,679 --> 01:23:20,179
to go do math without you asking
them to do math. How amazing is

1065
01:23:20,179 --> 01:23:24,019
that they're going to talk about
this at lunch. They're going to

1066
01:23:24,019 --> 01:23:27,799
come in the next day with the
answer, and when they give you

1067
01:23:27,799 --> 01:23:31,399
answers, you're going to be
like, That's interesting, you

1068
01:23:31,399 --> 01:23:34,339
know what? Let's start adding
that to an answer list. Let's

1069
01:23:34,339 --> 01:23:37,099
start documenting that. We'll
come back to this next week. But

1070
01:23:37,099 --> 01:23:43,299
let's celebrate what they're
doing, but do not confirm or

1071
01:23:43,299 --> 01:23:47,739
deny their answers. There are
some responses that are going to

1072
01:23:47,739 --> 01:23:51,819
negate all of the work that
you've done. You want to let

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01:23:51,819 --> 01:24:00,359
this linger. See, I'm going to
let this linger. You're going to

1074
01:24:00,359 --> 01:24:03,899
let this Lisa, beautiful,
beautiful, because that's what

1075
01:24:03,899 --> 01:24:09,239
we end up doing with Jesse and
Kay, is we graph Jesse's system

1076
01:24:09,239 --> 01:24:12,419
of equations. That's what this
is. We graph Jesse's function,

1077
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:16,499
we graph K's function, and
that's just good practice in

1078
01:24:16,499 --> 01:24:21,799
slope, intercept, like boom. And
then we start asking, are we

1079
01:24:21,799 --> 01:24:25,339
going to have parallel lines or
non parallel lines? Parallel

1080
01:24:25,339 --> 01:24:28,279
lines, same slope? No solution.
We don't have the same slope

1081
01:24:28,279 --> 01:24:30,439
here. So we are going to
probably have a solution

1082
01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:32,779
somewhere. What is that
solution? Is the solution going

1083
01:24:32,779 --> 01:24:35,299
to be in the future or in the
past or in the negatives? And

1084
01:24:35,299 --> 01:24:40,039
what is this so much, so much we
can do at algebra one and Lisa,

1085
01:24:40,099 --> 01:24:44,559
imagine if your seventh grade,
sixth grade, fifth grade, fourth

1086
01:24:44,559 --> 01:24:47,139
grade, third grade, second
grade, first grade. Teachers in

1087
01:24:47,139 --> 01:24:51,639
your building did Jesse and K
every year in lots of

1088
01:24:51,639 --> 01:24:55,479
variations. So by the time kids
came to you in algebra one

1089
01:24:56,199 --> 01:25:01,139
they've already had a lot of
this mentality. Mm. Can you

1090
01:25:01,139 --> 01:25:05,999
imagine what that would look
like? It's really beautiful

1091
01:25:06,239 --> 01:25:09,479
because the cohorts I got rid of
the data here, but the cohorts

1092
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,119
where we've seen this extreme
data, that's what we've been

1093
01:25:12,119 --> 01:25:19,199
doing in schools, and we've
earned 1520, 30, 40% higher test

1094
01:25:19,199 --> 01:25:25,939
score rates by doing exactly
this. All right, friends, it is

1095
01:25:25,939 --> 01:25:29,059
almost 11. Here's what I want to
hear right now. Type it in the

1096
01:25:29,059 --> 01:25:34,759
chat or unmute. What were your
takeaways from today? What were

1097
01:25:34,759 --> 01:25:38,239
your ahas? What are you going to
take away from today? What did

1098
01:25:38,239 --> 01:25:42,039
you learn from today? What
solidified your learning. So

1099
01:25:42,039 --> 01:25:45,159
what are your takeaways? Unmute
or type them in the chat or

1100
01:25:45,159 --> 01:25:46,299
both. Go ahead,

1101
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:55,960
I just have something about the
field trip. Yeah, I'm going to

1102
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:58,840
bring in another reference
reference task, but the painted

1103
01:25:58,840 --> 01:26:04,200
cube, so I had my the block that
you were in with came back on

1104
01:26:04,260 --> 01:26:09,000
from spring break, okay? And one
of their first questions to me

1105
01:26:09,060 --> 01:26:14,100
was, Hey, are we ever going to
do that cube problem again? And

1106
01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:17,340
not only that, but then my other
block that they kind of

1107
01:26:17,340 --> 01:26:21,140
intermingle with was like, Hey,
I heard that you did this cute

1108
01:26:21,140 --> 01:26:24,260
problem, like, are we ever going
to have a chance to do that

1109
01:26:24,260 --> 01:26:27,080
again? So, you know, they've
been talking about it. It's just

1110
01:26:27,500 --> 01:26:28,280
interesting.

1111
01:26:28,640 --> 01:26:35,000
That's cool. That is cool.
Lingering is so powerful. Let it

1112
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:39,860
linger. Other takeaways, Hannah
says, Teach based on thinking

1113
01:26:39,860 --> 01:26:42,760
more than salt, yeah, beautiful
other takeaways.

1114
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:00,600
Yep, thinking, reasoning and
sense making is the key and only

1115
01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:06,120
that's not on the kids, that's
not on the kids, that is on our

1116
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:10,620
instructional facilitation and
delivery. So if kids don't have

1117
01:27:10,620 --> 01:27:13,800
thinking, reasoning and sense
making, if they don't persevere,

1118
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:18,120
if they don't initiate, that's
on us, not on them, we have not

1119
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:23,120
created the environment, culture
and habits for them to default

1120
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:26,720
to thinking, reasoning and sense
making. A lot of times, I hear

1121
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:29,180
these kids, they just don't
start. They don't know where to

1122
01:27:29,180 --> 01:27:32,660
begin. They don't they're so
helpless. They're done. They

1123
01:27:32,660 --> 01:27:36,860
didn't do that to themselves.
Because toddlers don't have any

1124
01:27:36,860 --> 01:27:40,580
of that. They toddlers don't
have any of that effectiveness.

1125
01:27:41,900 --> 01:27:47,380
School. Has created that in our
students that's on us, guys

1126
01:27:47,740 --> 01:27:51,940
that's on us. Get students
brains thinking, leave them

1127
01:27:51,940 --> 01:27:55,360
hanging. Yeah, that's important.
Focus factors, fractions

1128
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:58,720
function, and we have more
explicit, streamlined approaches

1129
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:01,980
to being able to focus on those.
Yep, very good takeaways.

1130
01:28:01,980 --> 01:28:06,300
Balance between procedures.
Yeah, just do it like, just jump

1131
01:28:06,300 --> 01:28:09,480
in. Don't be like, you don't
know what's going to happen. As

1132
01:28:09,480 --> 01:28:12,960
a teacher, I know that's scary,
but I've given you the out. Once

1133
01:28:12,960 --> 01:28:15,180
you get to a point where you
don't know what to say and do

1134
01:28:15,180 --> 01:28:17,760
next, and you feel yourself
defaulting to telling and

1135
01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:20,840
teaching, then you want to stop
and be like, Hey, we're gonna

1136
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:26,000
finish that another day,
insisting that my students pre

1137
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,600
read, understand, yeah, yeah.
What is it asking think, reason

1138
01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:33,740
and sense, making new way to
word, make rectangles now. Okay,

1139
01:28:33,740 --> 01:28:36,320
good, good. Amy, yeah, and
you're going back to third

1140
01:28:36,320 --> 01:28:40,100
grade. Awesome. Oh, that seems
like it's going well, that's

1141
01:28:40,100 --> 01:28:44,860
excellent. Wonderful. Okay, you
guys, I've got a pretty hard

1142
01:28:44,860 --> 01:28:48,880
stop today. Usually we stay on
and I give you some more time,

1143
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:51,520
and then, like all of you, end
up staying for like another

1144
01:28:51,520 --> 01:28:54,100
hour. I can't do that today. I
have a hard stop time today.

1145
01:28:54,580 --> 01:28:59,260
Although I love you, I love you
so much. Mark down, April 24

1146
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:05,760
there will be the next webinar,
a webinar with upsell. Saturday

1147
01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:08,580
maths. I usually don't have any
upsell. I mean, this is just

1148
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:12,180
real organic like Saturday math
is free. There's nothing I'm

1149
01:29:12,180 --> 01:29:16,260
selling to you. But on April 24
there will be an upsell, and it

1150
01:29:16,260 --> 01:29:19,140
will be a bundled package of
what you can jump into for the

1151
01:29:19,140 --> 01:29:24,020
2026 2027 school year. I really
want you to be here on April 24

1152
01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:26,600
but I can't give you any link
right now. Nothing is up for

1153
01:29:26,600 --> 01:29:29,660
registration yet. It'll be
coming up later this week. So I

1154
01:29:29,660 --> 01:29:33,260
will send you the information
for the April 24 webinar this

1155
01:29:33,260 --> 01:29:36,680
week. Once I have the link, I'll
follow up and send you the notes

1156
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,980
from today, the PDF notes from
today. And I want to thank all

1157
01:29:39,980 --> 01:29:42,460
of you for being here and
spending your Saturday morning

1158
01:29:42,460 --> 01:29:45,040
with us. We will have another
Saturday math in May, and you

1159
01:29:45,040 --> 01:29:48,400
will definitely get that
information. Also love you guys.

1160
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:53,200
Bye, bye. Good luck with
testing. Enjoy the final 30 some

1161
01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:56,740
days of school and have a great
summer, but hope to see you in

1162
01:29:56,740 --> 01:29:57,880
May. Bye, everybody. You.