Hey everybody, it's Cheri Dotterer here at Tier One Interventions podcast.
I'm here today with Jonily Zupancic and we are in class today with a live
group of ladies and gentlemen who are learning about the Mastery Math method.
So I'm gonna let Jonily talk and if there's any intervention that I wanna add
to the puzzle, we will do but for now, I'm signing it all over to Jonily and let
us learn a little bit about mathematics.
Girl.
Y'all, this is Jay-Z.
I'm Jonily Zupancic, I'm your math specialist, your main Mathineer.
I if you are listening to this podcast or you're watching this podcast on YouTube I
want to give a disclaimer and a warning.
This is level two.
You're listening in on a level two version of Mastery Math method.
Mastery Math Method is strengthening our tier one core general classroom.
We cannot have in our schools effective interventions and effective tier two and
tier three without the strongest core.
So if you're listening to this, that's the mindset that I want you to have.
You should be listening to this.
If you are a general classroom teacher, a special ed teacher, a parent, a
school board member, a superintendent, a curriculum director, a principal, every
stakeholder should be involved in the qualities of a strong tier one general
classroom environment and the experiences that students are going to have.
But again, the disclaimer is this is upleveled.
Natalie, I'm gonna use your word.
I love it.
I think it was uplevel it like you're, it's, this is definitely the
level version of the mathematics.
So to get the lower level versions, you'll listen to some other podcasts,
but don't not listen to this because you don't understand it.
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So behind me, you're gonna see the result of many other groups
that I am leading this year.
So I'm leading a masterclass group, a mastermind group.
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You know what, Cheri, I always forget about this.
I always forget about this.
You are so good.
I love you so much.
And I'm gonna reiterate that if you're listening on a podcast or you're
watching the podcast on YouTube, I've already said and subscribe.
We have to ask ourselves, did any of it change the behavior?
Did any of it change the behavior?
And if the answer is no, then we have to do something that's
gonna change the behavior.
So don't just get online and throw out your complaints about the school system.
Okay.
Nobody wants to hear that.
Let's have good positive energy and real conversations about strategies
and techniques that can actually make a difference and make changes.
I'm leading a Saturday math group.
There's lots of different types of groups that I'm leading this year.
And this was one of the main content pieces that I started
this school year off with.
And it is the CES.
The CESC is for building a culture.
C is for culture building and launching a culture, a flavor, a
tone, a brand in your classroom.
So I'm gonna talk a lot about the feel of the classroom in Mastery Math
Method E for the CESE is essential.
If everything is important, nothing is important, so I'm
gonna be focusing on essentials.
There are certain things in math that are absolutely essential
that leverage everything else.
We were talking before we actually started the podcast recording.
And there was a question that said, do we have to start with addition or
subtraction or can we start with division?
So someone here said, I just listened to your division is counting podcast.
I wanna do that with my littles.
I wanna do that with my kids that are really far behind
in math, math, mathematics.
I wanna do that with my strugglers.
Like I loved the division is counting podcast, but do I need the addition,
subtraction, and multiplication?
One first.
The ultimate answer is no.
Division is more essential than addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
Division exposures and division experiences are more essential.
So if I'm gonna teach operation, I'm gonna choose to teach
division more than anything else.
Then I'm gonna use division as the vehicle to teach addition,
subtraction, multiplication.
If you haven't listened to the episode with division is counting,
go back and take a look at that.
There are actually two of them now.
Hey everybody, it's Cheri again.
If you're loving these strategies and you want to join our Mastery
Math Method Masterclass, we hold this hour long event once a month
and we'd love to have you join.
What we talk about there is how to improve your math skills in 10 days.
Can you imagine 10 days, whether you are a math teacher or an occupational
therapist, you can see exactly how to shift teaching so that every student,
no matter their starting point, can master core math concepts and reserve.
So reserve your seat today and go over to disability labs.com/calendar
to check out the next event.
there's level one division is counting, and level two division is counting.
Then as we are exposing kids to division and we're teaching addition, subtraction
and multiplication through it, we have now shortened the time for mastery.
You see a lot of things that I hear in schools and with
teachers is we don't have time.
We don't have time.
We need more time.
We don't.
We do not need more time.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna cut your time.
In a third.
I'm only gonna give you a third of your time, and I'm gonna tell you with the
mastery math method strategies, you can do all of this and more in a third of
the current time you have with students.
By focusing on essentials and the right essentials, you can't pick the essentials.
We are going to pick the essentials for you because for the last 26
years, I have studied what the high leverage concepts of mathematics are.
Think about toddlers for a moment.
'cause I wanna give a concrete example here.
Think about toddlers for a moment.
What are toddlers good at?
I should say this.
What do toddlers know a lot about?
They're not good at this because a lot of them don't like doing this, but
what do they know a lot about sharing?
Equally, three-year-olds are very aware.
If they don't have the same exact amount as somebody else that is division,
we're losing a great opportunity by wasting our time on addition,
subtraction, and multiplication.
Think about the other thing that toddlers know a lot about, asking questions.
My friends, when kids get to third, fourth, fifth grade.
Secondary.
We have untaught them to ask great questions.
We have schooled it out of them.
We have unlearned them.
This is what school is doing, this is what traditional school is doing to our kids.
So essentials is what you're gonna hear in the mastery math method,
and that is what's going to allow us to teach more math in less time.
It's gonna allow kids to achieve more mathematics in less time.
Even our most struggling population, CES, the S is seasons.
Now how do we get it all in?
The number one factor in student memory and retention of content
is interactions over time.
Interactions over time.
How do we get it all in?
How do we get more interactions over time?
It's by teaching math in seasons in the school year.
There are five seasons.
The first season as we're recording this is right now because it's August as you're
hearing this, it could be any season.
But the first season is right now, and I call the first
season, first 15 days in first.
In the first 15 days, I expose my students to all of the math in my entire
curriculum, not for their mastery.
They're not gonna master it all, but they're exposed to my entire
curriculum in the first 15 days.
And then in season two is really like October to December.
I expose them to the whole curriculum again at an up level.
And then season three is January.
We call January math in a month.
It's a replication of the first 15 days in season one, and we expose
all of our content, mainly are essentials the whole month of January.
So technically my goal is to expose students to everything and have the
majority of the master my entire year content by the end of January.
That's what happens with the Mastery Math Method.
The Mastery Math Method is the comprehensive course that is going to
make all of what I've just said happen.
Remember, you're listening to level two, so I'm going to
way up level the mathematics.
And then keep in mind, if you teach littles, you're not going to replicate
the teaching of the mathematics that I'm gonna share with you today, but
I'm going, but I need you all try here.
Thanks for tuning in toLevel Two Mastery Math Method series.
If this feels heavy, don’t worry, next episode we lighten the load by diving
into one of our favorite hands-on activities: The Locker Problem.
You’ll see how one deceptively simple problem unlocks deep learning
for students at every level."
Until then, remember.
every student deserves the chance to see themselves as a mathematician.
And as Cheri and Jonily say, Go Be Awesome!
Go Be Brilliant!
For you were put here for such a time as this.