@AlexOverwijk

Math Teacher, Learner, Basketball Coach, Father of 2 boys, Husband of great lady, Circle Drawer, Interleaver believer #iteachmath #vnps #vrg #thinkingclassroom

 Ottawa
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Joined February 2012
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Checking out after 37 years of teaching math and coaching basketball. What a ride! Be well my twitter / X friends.
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Collaborative Whiteboard assessment today in #MHF4U Trying to evaluate what I value-still!!! #ITeachMath #mtbos
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"Building #thinkingclassrooms is a problem to solve, not a formula to master. The framework gives ideas, not a choreographed dance to follow. The best tool to solve the problem is recursion - find your efficiency and scale it up." @pgliljedahl @sapdc
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Had an awesome three days with @pgliljedahl presenting to cross curricular T’s, then to Teacher Coaches and finally to math Teachers. Lots of new stuff and deeper learning. 4 school boards-around 325 people.
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Is it too late? And no layup jokes!
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“You actually cared to teach us the theoretical cognition behind the mathematical content, in a way that was accessible to students who weren’t necessarily inclined towards STEM. I really appreciate that.” Someone cutting onions-must be my old age!
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I’ll add to watch. Listen, collaborate, connect, justify, represent, build, engage, observe, question, discuss and challenge-THE MATH. Thank you @pgliljedahl for all your work in the math world!!! A Game Changer.
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The focus on equity and anti-oppression in education is 💯 about creating optimal learning conditions and increasing student achievement, with an emphasis on making sure particular communities are served well. The ONLY agenda is ensuring that ALL students learn. – at Toronto, Ontario
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Wordle 444 X/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 Argh!
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Peter’s model has spread like wildfire-very fortunate to have met him. And @JudithKeeney you are an inspiration to me as well. Stay the course my beautiful friend.
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MBF3C action today. Experimentally. You all know what we were up to!
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Holistic approach to Calculus this semester-byproduct of the pandemic. Built these open rectangular boxes by cutting squares out of the corners 1 cm to 13 cm & graphed Volume versus length of the square cut out (x). What are the dimensions of the square for maximum volume? 1/n
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With this problem we uncovered limits, derivatives and the connection to first and second differences, optimization and curve sketching. Here is some student work. #thinkingclassroom @pgliljedahl 5/n
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Always open to comments, questions, ways to make this better. n/n
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Wordle 281 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Symmetry yet again.
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Area = Length * Width S “oh this makes so much sense!”
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Then place equations of area form of quadratic and length/width form of a quadratic into Desmos and see they land on top of each other, then connect area form to y intercept and length/width form to x intercepts, sketch the graph, talk about symmetry , find x&y value of vertex. – at Ottawa, Ontario
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All in the name of engagement. S’s are up out of their desks, moving about, writing on whiteboards, building , thinking-exactly what I value in my classroom. The third day we build quadratics just with tiles and do a full analysis. Can bring in negative signs easily now. – at Ottawa, Ontario
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