I am a math teacher, consultant, mom, wife, and occasionally knitter, baker and rearranger of furniture

St. Catharines, ontario
Joined April 2009
Sept. 14 street cleaning: 🧹 Crews are currently working in sectors 3, 4, 48 and 49 🚗 Please remove parked cars from streets 🗑️ Place garbage/recycling for collection on the curb, not on the street ℹ️ For a sector map and daily updates visit: stcatharines.ca/StreetCleani…
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It’s Harriet Tubman Day. Today would have been Harriet’s 200th birthday. This quilt is a collaboration of our grade 2 and 4 students along with one of our grandparents who worked with her friends to put it all together. #harriettubmanday #northstarproud
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MILESTONE! Over 50% of all Niagara residents are now #FullyVaccinated ✌️ Keep it up, #Niagara! Getting vaccinated is a part each of us can play to help bring this pandemic to an end. Appointments are available across Niagara for first and second doses. Ontario.ca/BookVaccine
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Did you catch tonight's gorgeous skies? The rainbow could not have had better timing... or placement... 🌈♥️ absolute perfection. #downtownstc #OurhomeSTC #rainbow #doublerainbow #sunsetsinthecity #staytuned
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[ON] St. Catharines 18+ (Pen Center) (Moderna Vaccine - Eligible for individuals 18 years of age or older at the time of vaccination) 221 Glendale Ave portal.healthmyself.net/walm… AFTERWORK APPOINTMENTS TOMORROW!!!!! #COVID19ON #vhcON
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Starting tomorrow (May 13) at 8:00 a.m., individuals age 40+ (born in 1981 or earlier) can book a COVID-19 vaccine appointment at a #Niagara clinic through Ontario.ca/BookVaccine or call 1-833-943-3900 #VaccinateNiagara ✌️#StickItToCOVID
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There is a $15 000 scholarship opportunity to study in the Master of Teaching Mathematics program through UWaterloo #indigenous #secondarymath Deadline: May 1 Info: notes.math.ca/en/article/mas…
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Heads up grade three and four teachers in Niagara! 🍎 Niagara Children’s Virtual Water Festival is happening May 10 to 14. 💧 Stay tuned for registration details. Learn more: niagararegion.ca/waterfestiv…
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Liisa Suurtamm retweeted
I added a few new graphs to slowrevealgraphs.com recently! How hate crimes against AAPI are rising (@LaraMathcalf), what longterm data about cherry trees can reveal about global warming (@MarkChubb3), which animals have the longest tongues (@amanda_renard) and several more.
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74 leaders from across #Niagara are supporting the @niagarahealth team which is working full out to care for residents. We need every member of our community to follow public health guidelines 100% of the time. It will save lives. bit.ly/3spN1sG @DrJohanViljoen
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Liisa Suurtamm retweeted
Posted a small collection of Growing Quadratic Animations. natbanting.com/animating-qua… Inspired by the work of @fawnpnguyen, @LLB_315, and @BerkeleyEverett #MTBoS #iteachmath
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Meet A Mathematician. Wow wow wow. I am loving everything about this web site and hoping it can be spread and used in classrooms far and wide. #mtbos #iteachmath sites.google.com/view/meetam…
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Liisa Suurtamm retweeted
Have you signed up for the Mathematical Modelling webinars from OntarioMath.Support yet? Still time!! ontariomath.support/?pg=webi… Should be great learning!! @OAMEcounts @afemo_on_ca @OAMElearns @OAMEtalks #iteachmath #MTBoS
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Liisa Suurtamm retweeted
Our house has hosted a Little Free Library for years now. Well today, I opened the Tiny Math Studio!! It's stocked with lots of mathy goodies, including Panda Squares from @MathHappensOrg, Zines from @Public_Math, origami projects, string-art kits and more.
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Thinking about some of these key recommendations from NCTM... de-streaming Grade 9 is only part of the puzzle. #OMCAmath
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Liisa Suurtamm retweeted
BREAKING NEWS - The mathies project lives! The Ministry of Education has just signed a development deal with @AFEMO and OAME to produce an HTML 5 version of @ONmathies Colour Tiles, Money and Fraction Strips apps by early in the next school year (Fall 2021).
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Liisa Suurtamm retweeted
Taking advantage of the beautiful weather and moving our #thinkingclassroom outdoors. Shoutout to @wheeler_laura for the awesome task, Walk vs Run
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Just released the WALO Print, resulting from linear, quadratic and absolute value functions (Algebra I and II) @thediarrablu This work also informs my work education. Teaching Mathematics w Art improves learning for students. #fashiontech #diarrablumath @joboaler @KnowlesTeachers
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Grade 12 Math students @port_high each made one Sine curve. Put together they make a WAVE. Now on display in Mr. MacGregor’s room. It looks so good that we should have entered it in the DSBN art showcase! @dsbn #math #trigonometry
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Liisa Suurtamm retweeted
New webinar series which begins on March 29th at 7pm (EST) New Webinar Series: #Indigenous Ways of Knowing in #Math and #Science in partnership with The Robertson Program for Inquiry-based Teaching in Mathematics in Science Register: eventbrite.ca/e/indigenous-w…