Math MTSS Support Specialist in Olathe, former 4th grade teacher, data enthusiast
Olathe, KS
Joined February 2019
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Rachel Stone retweeted
So, your school has bought you a bunch of vertical whiteboards and says you have to use them to teach math. When would it work?
Well, let's start with how novices and expert process information, cognitive load theory, and the instructional hierarchy. 1/
thescienceofmath.com/how-tea…
Rachel Stone retweeted
I feel these are three things every teacher and school leader should know:
1. We are more similar than dissimilar in how we learn.
2. This has major implications for designing curriculum, instruction and assessment.
3. Expecting teachers to differentiate their teaching for 30 different kids who all 'learn differently' is one reason the job has been completely unsustainable for so many.
(Quote from Stanislas Dehaene's book 'How We Learn')
Rachel Stone retweeted
Happy Sunday! I spent yesterday morning writing a progression of puzzle-y pictarithms for Gr K-7. Concepts build gradually across the grade levels & encourage algebraic thinking & sense-making at every step. Goal is to build strong reasoning & computation skills while having fun!
Rachel Stone retweeted
Happy Friday! Here's a fun Gr 3+ problem for you & your kids. Make sense of each equation, first separately and then together. With practice, it's a fun mental math problem that takes less than a minute. If you've done PD with me, you'll know the answer in about 5 seconds. Enjoy!
Interesting 🤔
Does not surprise me at all. Ben Solomon & I recently published a paper in School Psychology (APA’s Division 16 journal) demonstrating similar. researchgate.net/publication…
Rachel Stone retweeted
About 2K students in England answered the questions below.
91% got the 1st one right.
Only 13% got the 2nd one right.
Why? If you don't know what a sentence is, observes @daisychristo, you go by length.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p…
Rachel Stone retweeted
Annotating the learning targets 🎯offers a huge bang for your buck.
Watch @ml_shackelford show how she has #SLIFE at grade-level. 👏👏👏 – at Dearborn Heights, MI
Recorded myself annotating learning targets with my 8th grade class for a PD on learning targets & teacher clarity. Watching yourself teach can be 🙈but I’m loving this strategy to increase EL’s vocabulary & teacher clarity! #jcpsesl @NewcomerAcademy @michelleshory @MsSalvac
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I hope @olatheschools teachers had a great first day of school! What you do MATTERS! #opsforwardtogether
Rachel Stone retweeted
Check out this new research from @Xin_Lin_! She designed an intervention focused on fraction vocabulary - which helped students improve their knowledge of fraction vocabulary! This was Xin's @utexascoe dissertation project. @MCPER_EDU buff.ly/3OOB4eD
“Reading comprehension is domain-specific.” -Dr. Hugh Catts on @ClassroomWonder podcast @natwexler
Rachel Stone retweeted
Here are some examples of what Depth of Knowledge looks like in kindergarten to second grade. Check out and download my Elementary Math DOK matrix.
robertkaplinsky.com/depth-kn…
This story features a student that used to attend the school I taught at in KCK ❤️kcur.org/news/2023-05-26/pan…
Excellent article on math fluency! Lots of practical ideas as well as what the research says. @mathmtssolathe edweek.org/teaching-learning…
Rachel Stone retweeted
Regardless of how high #preschoolers can rote count, a child’s sense of what those numbers actually mean develops gradually. We call this understanding NUMBER SENSE, and it requires relating numbers to real quantities.
More: earlymath.erikson.edu/many-w…
Rachel Stone retweeted
Lots of us need support with our own understanding of fractions before we can teach our students. This collection of resources has been curated to provide helpful guidance for both the learning and teaching of fractions! bit.ly/33TNvwN #iteachmath #teacherchat
Rachel Stone retweeted
A homeowner tiled her floor with ~13,000 pennies. Everyone loved it... until people complained about how she wasted $13,000!
robertkaplinsky.com/work/muc…
Excellent. Lots of this applies to math too!
Rachel Stone retweeted
By using multiple representations of the numbers 1 through 4, this game focuses children on the attribute of quantity of small sets and helps them build a more robust NUMBER SENSE. With a downloadable, printable card set! earlymath.erikson.edu/match-…
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