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Success for Each Child and Eliminate the Opportunity Gap by Leading with Racial Equity

April 2022
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Amplify Earth Day is: Invest In Our Planet™. free poster   
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Happy Spring!!! 

We hope that you have had or are having a little time off to celebrate Spring!! 

This month, Washington State Fellows applications will be opening for the 2022 - 23 school year. Fellows are a wonderful professional learning community, focusing on math content, teaching practices, and leadership, all with a focus on equity. 

We know that things are still a bit tentative with regards to substitutes and professional learning, so the Washington State Regional Math Coordinators are offering several different options for Fellows. Across the state, Math Fellows will be able to attend face to face meetings (probably 4 full days at the ESD) or attend those 4 full days virtually via hybrid, or Fellows will be able to attend 2 hour monthly virtual meetings after school.  

Please share the word about Fellows and encourage colleagues to apply. It is also powerful for groups of teachers from the same school or district to participate in Fellows together, or for cross disciplinary groups (there are also ELA, Science, & Early Learning Fellows.) 

Please let us know if you have any questions. 


Best,  

Leslie & Remy  

                                   3-circle venn diagram illustrating the ESD's math team core: Beliefs, mathematical content, and practices.
                   Success for Each Child and Eliminate the Opportunity Gap by Leading with Racial Equity

This month we are sharing a problem from NRICH! called Growing Garlic. It’s definitely the season to plant all kinds of things, and this problem is a classic. The NRICH site has many resources with problems and information that focus on the environment and climate science. 

Ben is gardening with his Mom. They would like to grow some garlic and are deciding how to plant the garlic cloves. 
Ben arranges the cloves into three equal rows and finds that he has one spare clove. 

  • How many cloves might he have had to start with? 

  • How do you know? 

Ben plants cloves of garlic in two equal rows and has one clove left over. So he tries again. 

  • He plants cloves in three equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again. 

  • He plants cloves in four equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again. 

  • He plants cloves in five equal rows and has one left over. So he tries again. 

  • He plants cloves in six equal rows and still has one left over. 

  • We know that he has fewer than 100 garlic cloves. How many did he have? 

  • How do you know? 

  • How many cloves might he have had if there were more than 100? 

https://nrich.maths.org/5579   

Race and Equity Conversations in Math

Culturally Relevant Math Tasks in the Classroom, with Lou Edward Matthews, Shelly M. Jones, and Yolanda A. Parker. In this webinar, the authors of Engaging in Culturally Relevant Math Tasks will explore how teachers can find, adapt, and implement math tasks that engage and empower students by helping them learn and understand math more deeply and make connections to themselves, their communities, and the world around them. Watch Video Recording  


Indigenous Peoples Exist Within Mathematics by Kamuela E. Yong, Founder of Indigenous Mathematicians Network - When looking at the effects of COVID-19 by race, one is likely to come across a chart depicting the impact on four races: White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian. Often omitted from these charts are the statistics for Indigenous people. Read More 


Our last District Mathematics Leaders meeting of the 2021 - 22 school year will be on Monday, May 9th from 9 am to noon. 
If you have already registered, you should receive a reminder from PD Enroller. If you are new to the group, please register here.


PSCTM - Puget Sound Council of Teachers of Mathematics is very happy to announce our May 9, 2022 Spring Dinner Zoom (5:30 PM – 7:00 PM PDT) Presentation featuring UW Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Teaching Professor, Timea Tihanyi.  You may also want to check out her exhibition, Object Permanence, at the Bellevue Arts Museum on view until May 29, 2022.  Register Here 


Achieve the Core:  Learning from Mistakes: Easier Said Than Done webinar resources: 

Slide deck   A recording and on-demand version of the webinar    Mistake Literacy Professional Learning Playlist


Stenhouse Publishers BLOG: How to Lead a Compare and Connect Math Discussion - In this blog, we dig into one targeted discussion structure from Intentional Talk by Elham Kazemi and Allison Hintz: planning a Compare and Connect discussion. The blog also includes planning templates for all six discussion structures in the book. Read here   


Revisit The Math Forum Ignite event at NCTM 2017:  The Power of Ideas by Annie Fetter. Watch recording


Direct Talk:  Math Can Help by Ingrid Daubechies / Mathematician - Ingrid Daubechies has collaborated with people from various fields to solve problems using innovative mathematical theory. Her recent art project was created to show that math is everywhere!  Watch Recording 


Just Equations has been focusing on the connections between math and science education. Pam’s recent piece in Scientific American highlights how important it is that college faculty prioritize “collaboration across disciplines to transform math classes from weed-out mechanisms to fertile terrain for cultivating a diverse generation of STEM researchers and professionals.” 

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute workshop about transforming introductory math courses for STEM majors brought a few non-math STEM faculty to Berkeley to meet with math education leaders. This month’s blog describes how the non-math STEM faculty used examples of successful redesigns to challenge math faculty to be open-minded about varying math content to align with students’ majors.  Read More 


Math Teacher Lounge is now a podcast and we’re so excited to share that our first episode with Howie Hua just dropped. Howie turns complex math into viral videos. His short explanations of math and teaching topics rack up hundreds of thousands of views on social media platforms.  Listen now 


Global Math Department:  If You Let Your Students Surprise You, They Will - For many students, math class embodies the opposite of surprise: getting the right answer and using the right way to get to that answer. But the most joyful learning-and teaching!-happens when we relish ambiguity, invite the unexpected, and let students surprise us with their varied brilliance.  Watch Recording 


Mathworlds: Tiny Teaching Games by Dan Meyers - Where are the learning experiences for teachers that are a) quick and b) closely tied to practice? I'm talking about brief but meaningful experiences like Duolingo for language or Sololearn for coding where you can learn a little bit while you're in line, waiting for a show to start, or etc. I know where I can find the other experiences.  Read More 


Sum of It All by Audrey Mendivil and Mark Alcorn:  A conversation about Chapter 4 of the book "Mathematizing Children’s Literature" by Allison Hintz and Anthony T. Smith. Transcripts of the episodes Listen to the Podcast   


Seattle Universal Math Museum:  What is Ethnomathematics and How Can It Help Solve a Math Problem? by Tracy Drinkwater Synopsis:  Brazilian mathematician Ubiratan D'Ambrosio coined the term "Ethnomathematics" in 1987. Decades later, we still see math as separate from culture. How can D'Ambrosio's approach help us change how we teach students who have felt no connection between their lives and the subject of math? Read More 


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Math For Love by Dan Finkel:  Mathematical Openers — 5-10 minute warmups.  Why use openers? Bang for your buck. They’re super easy to implement, require virtually no prep time, and the payoff is huge.  We made openers one of the pillars of our summer curriculum, and I produced a ton of them, many of which are now available in our free lesson library. There are also boatloads of amazing ones available online - so many, in fact, that it can be overwhelming. That’s why I want to share my favorite three sites for openers.  Read More 
An example of a Play-Based approach is Forty Faces, a pattern block-building challenge that’s now up at the Free Lesson LibraryRead More


Global Math Department: Halt 8 Thinking Thieves presented by Traci Jackson - How do we unintentionally limit student thinking? What should we do instead? Learn how the 8 effective teaching practices champion student thinking! Resource page Watch Recording  


Association of Teachers of Mathematics: Maths Snack Videos - ATM experts are sharing ideas through Maths Snacks videos, to support children and parents whilst children are away from school for whatever reason or for use in the classroom. The videos are a mix of tasks, puzzles, challenges and games; selected to support and enrich mathematics taught at school.  Read More   


Problem Poser: This resource aims to shift mindsets around mathematics only being a mechanical or passive school subject to struggle through. Through actively participating in low-risk discussions, students can continually broaden their understanding of maths and its wide-ranging occurrences beyond the classroom walls. By doing so, students can: Develop their vocabulary; Make connections; Engage in mathematical reasoning and application; Be curious and have fun, and Move along the higher-order thinking continuum to become Problem Posers (and not just problem solvers). To access classroom resources, including Getting Started resources, click here




OSPI Math
K-12 Mathematics Newsletter October Edition
OSPI Mathematics at Home Fall Edition 


OSPI Graduation and Pathway Preparation - Class of 2022 Graduation One-Pager for Students and Families-NEW :  A one pager was developed to support families', students' and school teams' understanding of Washington State graduation requirements. To earn a high school diploma, students must meet the credit, Graduation Pathway, and High School and Beyond Plan requirements that serve to demonstrate preparation for their plans after high school. This resource is available on the OSPI Graduation webpage. Additionally, to support all students and families, this document will be translated into several languages. The translations of this document are expected to be posted by April of 2022.  

Bulletin No. 013-22 Secondary Education and Pathway Preparation/Assessment and Student Information-NEW: This resource posted February 25, 2022 provides targeted guidance on resolving incomplete courses and also includes guidance on mastery based crediting and other flexibilities to help students resolve any remaining incomplete courses. 


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This BULLETIN NO. 001-22 updates expectations for districts interested in offering Bridge to College courses 2022-2023 school year. Per the statewide placement agreement, students who earn a B grade or above in Bridge to College courses are considered college-ready and are eligible to enroll in college-level mathematics or English at all Washington community and technical colleges (and Eastern Washington University). Successful completion of a Bridge to College mathematics or English course also meets a high school graduation pathway requirement for the designated content area. (HB 1599)  

Registration Process Registration will open in early February on the OSPI Bridge to College web page. To assure adequate professional learning support for Bridge to College teachers, districts are strongly encouraged to complete the registration process by June 1 (even if unsure about specific teacher assignments). After the new school year is fully underway, districts will be sent an invoice for the professional development fee (see below) for each teacher who is registered to teach the Bridge to College course in 2022–23. 

For additional information about the course, please contact OSPI Director of Mathematics, Arlene Crum at arlene.crum@k12.wa.us or 360-725-6233. 


Mathematically Productive Instructional Routines (MPIRs) have moved to OER Commons


Modeling Our World with Mathematics is now on OER Commons!  Course materials and assessments will still be able to be accessed on the OSPI Learn Moodle


OSPI Educator Resource - Resources for teachers and districts, including instructional materials and course supports.


New post on Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers' Society: Alternate Angles: 13. Slicing Squares  by  Shawn Godin view pdf 


The Conversation: A universe without mathematics is beyond the scope of our imagination by Peter Watson - Almost 400 years ago, in The Assayer, Galileo wrote: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe … [But the book] is written in the language of mathematics.” He was much more than an astronomer, and this can almost be thought of as the first writing on the scientific method. Read More 

Professional Development: We are able to meet with you and your district math leaders to construct a professional development program informed by the latest research in the field of mathematics education that is tailored to the needs of your students and teachers. We can: 
  • Meet with you and your math leaders to identify needs as well as areas of interest such as Common Core Content, the Standards for Mathematical Practice, and high leverage mathematics teaching practices
  • Conduct professional development sessions targeted at identified needs and areas of interest which are informed by research, on-going, and job-embedded
  • Support math coaches in classroom coaching, debriefing and leading PLCs
  • Support math leaders in conducting district wide instructional materials reviews to consider the match of district needs, research informed best-practices, and available instructional materials
  • Support math coaches and teachers in crafting and leveraging an assessment system that utilizes assessment resources already in place, including summative, interim/benchmark and formative assessments
  • Assist in collaborations within district between math teachers and other departments such as Special Education, English Language Learning, Blended Learning or content areas such as Science.
This is only a partial list. We are eager to work with you to support your students and teachers as we continue implementation of the Washington State Learning Standards and work to close the opportunity gap in mathematics. Please let us know if we can be of service.

Contact information:
 
Leslie Nielsen
Math Program Manager
lnielsen@psesd.org
 
Remy Poon
PreK - 5 Mathematics Systems Consultant
rpoon@psesd.org

Greta Bornemann
Director of Mathematics and Science
GBornemann@psesd.org
 
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