* taps mic * Is this on? I haven't been here in years , but there is so much that I have been reading, thinking about, and planning in the past few days. I needed to get some of it out. Maybe this will forever live in drafts, or maybe, just maybe, I'll be brave and #pushsend. I crawled out from under a rock and started using TweetDeck on my computer last week. For years I have missed the #MTBoS community, but have felt that it was too overwhelming to keep up with on top of all the typical day to day activities. Also, I joined Twitter back when I was one of two math teachers at my school. That community was my lifeline during my first 3 years of teaching. Now, I have a workroom filled with teachers in real life with whom I can and should collaborate. The richness and depth of these workroom discussions are not usually the same as what I found online, but it is still critical to support and develop these relationships. Now comes to the r...
a "hands-on" approach to teaching mathematics