Death to Keep Change Flip and Other Crimes Against Sense-Making – Dr. Alison J. Mello
If you’ve ever felt frustrated because your students don’t remember what they learned last year (or last week!), this session is for you. It’s time to replace shortcuts with sense-making and allow students to uncover and discover how math ideas are connected. With the right tools, questions, language, and contexts, you can take your instruction from teflon to velcro, because, despite what the rabbit said, tricks are NOT for kids!
Dr. Alison J. Mello
Co-Author, Math Specialist, Alison Mello Math Consulting
As a former struggling math student, nobody was more surprised than me to find myself pursuing more and more math courses and leaving the classroom to be a middle school math specialist. From there, I served as the K-8Math/Science Curriculum Director and then the Assistant Superintendent. While I love leadership and systems, my desire to focus on math led me to resign and pursue my passion for supporting teachers, leaders, and students at the ground level. It has also given me more time to write. I look forward to book #5 dropping at NCTM this Fall.
Here are all the resource links that appear in the transcript (including “bare” domains), plus what each one is:
- https://www.target.com/p/learning-resources-fraction-tower-cubes-set/-/A-81327513#lnk=sametab
Summary: A Target product page for Learning Resources Fraction Tower Cubes Set—stackable fraction cubes used to help students visualize fractions (and often connect to decimals/percents depending on the set). Target+1 - mathsbot.com/manipulatives (shared in chat as
mathsbot.com/manipulatives)
Summary: MathsBot’s online virtual manipulatives area. The specific manipulative referenced in the transcript is Base 10 / Dienes blocks, which MathsBot provides as an interactive classroom tool. MathsBot - wheelofnames.com (shared in chat as
wheelofnames.com)
Summary: Wheel of Names—a free, customizable spinning wheel you can load with names/items and spin to randomly select a winner (often used for classroom picks, giveaways, etc.). Wheel of Names
Mentioned but NOT linked (no URL in the transcript):
- Brainingcamp (virtual manipulatives platform)
- Polypad (virtual manipulatives)
- Toy Theater (online learning games/manipulatives)
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Here are all the resource links that appear in the transcript (including “bare” domains), plus what each one is:
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https://www.target.com/p/learning-resources-fraction-tower-cubes-set/-/A-81327513#lnk=sametab
Summary: A Target product page for Learning Resources Fraction Tower Cubes Set—stackable fraction cubes used to help students visualize fractions (and often connect to decimals/percents depending on the set). Target+1 -
mathsbot.com/manipulatives (shared in chat as
mathsbot.com/manipulatives)
Summary: MathsBot’s online virtual manipulatives area. The specific manipulative referenced in the transcript is Base 10 / Dienes blocks, which MathsBot provides as an interactive classroom tool. MathsBot -
wheelofnames.com (shared in chat as
wheelofnames.com)
Summary: Wheel of Names—a free, customizable spinning wheel you can load with names/items and spin to randomly select a winner (often used for classroom picks, giveaways, etc.). Wheel of Names
Mentioned but NOT linked (no URL in the transcript):
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Brainingcamp (virtual manipulatives platform)
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Polypad (virtual manipulatives)
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Toy Theater (online learning games/manipulatives)
